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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CANOES & CANOEING Matches Found: 17 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN OLD SAW NEWLY RENDERED, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Although nor wise nor deep in thought Last Line: Then toot your horn and row your own canoe. Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Death; Pride; Proverbs; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Maxims; Adages CANOE SONG, by E. FRERE CHAMPNEY Poem Text First Line: Dip! Dip! Softly slip Last Line: Young as now and ever one. Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing CANOEBIAL BLISS, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, summer is sweet, and its sky is so blue Subject(s): Summer; Canoes & Canoeing DRIFTING, by HENRY HARMON CHAMBERLIN JR. Poem Text First Line: Drifting in our frail canoe Last Line: Drifting, drifting evermore. Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing HANDS, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the amber morning by the inlet's high shore Last Line: Our roots are in autumn, and store for no spring. Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Hands LISLE'S RIVER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dust followed our car like a dry brown cloud Last Line: What joy have you had since, that equaled this? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Happiness; Memory; Rivers; Water; Joy; Delight RE-VOYAGE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of the days when we two dreamed together? Last Line: My lone canoe and I. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Summer; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness SEMINOLE SONG CYCLE: NOONDAY SONG, by HARRIET LYON LEONARD Poem Text First Line: The noon is hot. Come, let us seek Last Line: In my own staunch canoe. Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE CANOE, by ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: My masters twain made me a bed Last Line: As white locks of tall waterfalls. Variant Title(s): Said The Canoe Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing THE IDLERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's red pulses beat Last Line: More than the homeward blowing wind that died an hour ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Idleness; Love; Peace; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE MEASURE OF THE YEAR, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A canoe made of horse ribs tipped over in the pasture Last Line: I thought I’d seen that happen Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing THE SONG MY PADDLE SINGS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: West wind, blow from your prairie nest Last Line: Swelling the song that my paddle sings. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Birds; Canoes & Canoeing; Crows; Rivers; Wind THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA'S SAILING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me of your bark, o birch-tree! Last Line: To the bay of taquamenaw. Variant Title(s): The Birch Canoe;building Of The Canoe Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails 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 THISTLE-DOWN, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond a ridge of pine with russet tips Last Line: Far floats their down—far drifts my dream away. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Nature WATER SILLIES, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: In a red canoe Last Line: Calls home his daughter. Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Kisses; Water WAVE-WON, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight I hunger so Last Line: To idolize the perfect world, to taste of love at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Love; Trust |
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