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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CAVES Matches Found: 57 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, ADDRESSED TO TWO LADIES, SELECTION, by JOHN DALTON Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Agape the sooty collier stands Last Line: Creative commerce, these are thine! Subject(s): Caves; Coal Mines & Miners; Earth; Rivers; Stones; Caverns; World; Granite; Rocks AJANTA, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: When we went to the caves at ajanta, the bus Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves AJANTA: 1. THE JOURNEY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Came in my full youth to the midnight cave Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 1. THE JOURNEY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came in my full youth to the midnight cave Last Line: This cave where the myth enters the heart again Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves AJANTA: 2. THE CAVE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Space to the mind, the painted cave of dream Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 2. THE CAVE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Space to the mind, the painted cave of dream Last Line: Great sensual shoulders in the web of time Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESSES BESTIALES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A procession of caresses alters the ancient sky Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 3. LES TENDRESSES BESTIALES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A procession of caresses alters the ancient sky Last Line: I am plunged deep. Must find the midnight cave Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A habit leading to murder, smoky laughter Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 4. BLACK BLOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A habit leading to murder, smoky laughter Last Line: Try to live as if there were a god Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves AJANTA: 5. THE BROKEN WORLD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came to ajanta cave, the painted space of the breast Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves; Caverns AJANTA: 5. THE BROKEN WORLD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came to ajanta cave, the painted space of the breast Last Line: The journey, and the struggles of the moon Subject(s): Ajanta, India; Caves AS IN A GLASS: 1. TIME, by CLARA PLATT MEADOWCROFT Poem Text First Line: Through this dark cavern I carry a torch to light me Last Line: Time is the torch I carry in my hand. Subject(s): Caves; Light; Caverns ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 23, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the witch's entertainment Last Line: Ah, he rush'd to meet his doom! Subject(s): Caves; Love; Witchcraft & Witches; Caverns BAT CAVE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The cave looked much like any other Last Line: Encrusted with shit. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Variant Title(s): Return To Bali Subject(s): Caves; Caverns BLIND-FISH CAVE, by SUSAN TERRIS Poem Source First Line: Somewhere high on the transparent mountain Last Line: Within echoes of a reality too edgy to control Subject(s): Caves; Fishing And Fishermen; Lakes CAVE, by DIANE MORGAN Poem Source First Line: The dripping fingers point and press inexorably to earth Last Line: And point to earth Subject(s): Caves; Nature CAVE COUNTRY, by MAX GARLAND Poem Source First Line: Under the farms were the rivers Last Line: Under the waking, the blind fish swam Subject(s): Caves CAVE OF SOMNUS, FR. METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 11, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Near the cimmerian land, deep-caverned, lies Last Line: And countless herbs, of night the drowsy store. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Caves; Caverns CAVE OF STAFFA (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw, but surely, in the motley crowd Last Line: Has deigned to work as if with human art! Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns CAVE OF STAFFA (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye shadowy beings, that have rights and claims Last Line: Yon light shapes forth a bard, that shade a chief. Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns CAVE OF STAFFA; AFTER THE CROWD HAD DEPARTED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks for the lessons of this spot - fit school Last Line: Of softest music some reponsive place. Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns CAVERNS; WRITTEN OF COLOSSAL CAVE, KENTUCKY, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aisles and abysses; leagues no man explores Last Line: An ancient causeway of forgotten hell. Subject(s): Caves; Caverns CAVES, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: At the hour of sleep a woman enters her own body Last Line: Waiting like eggs to begin Subject(s): Bodies; Caves; Women CLAY BISON IN A CAVE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clay-tan, eyeless Subject(s): Caves; Paintings & Painters; Paleontology; Caverns COUGNAC, 2007, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mutilated man shall mount the mammoth, Subject(s): Caves; Caverns ELEGIES FOR THE OCHER DEER ON THE WALLS AT LASCAUX, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are hearing a distant, almost familiar, french cradlesong Last Line: A white baton flew up! Subject(s): Caves; China; Clergy; Deer; France; Lament; Caverns; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE BAT, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Bats have not heard a word of their literary reputation Last Line: Will cause its cave to be burned to ashes Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Blood; Caves; Vampires; Wings FIRE IN THE OLD WAY, by FLORENCE FRIESEN LARSON Poem Source First Line: God, so young!' you groan of the photo Last Line: How we knew to keep that flame %burning Subject(s): Caves; New Mexico; Pictures; Travel; Vacation FLOWERS ON THE TOP OF THE PILLARS AT ENTRANCE TO THE CAVE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope smiled when your nativity was cast Last Line: As the supreme artificer ordained. Subject(s): Caves; Staffa (island), Scotland; Caverns FORESTS AND CAVERNS, by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have stood in forests, so old and vast Last Line: Hath been filled up by a newer birth Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M. Subject(s): Caves; Forests; Kentucky IDENTITY PROBLEM IN THE MAMMOTH CAVES, by WILLARD R. ESPY Poem Source First Line: O pendant stalactite Last Line: If you are you, or her - %an upright stalagmite? Subject(s): Caves INSCRIPTION FOR A CAVERN THAT OVERLOOKS THE RIVER AVON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter this cavern, stranger! The ascent Last Line: That man creates the evil he endures. Subject(s): Caves; Evil; Humanity; Introspection; Solitude; Strangers; Caverns; Loneliness INSCRIPTIONS: 1. FOR A GROTTO, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To me, whom in their lays the shepherds call Last Line: Wise pallas and the immortal muses own. Subject(s): Caves; Caverns JUKEBOX IN THE COALFIELDS, by WALTER LOWENFELS Poem Source First Line: It's rosefield gardens, richeyville, teen-age coke bar in this appalachian Last Line: Miner from a word, only in some secret crevice of his blind will-to-be Subject(s): Caves; Coal Mines And Miners; Rocky Mountain Range KANHERI CAVES, by DOM MORAES Poem Source First Line: Over these blunted, these tormented hills Last Line: When the clouds lift, he'll glimpse the miles-off sea Subject(s): Caves LETTER 2, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Searching the cave gallery of your face Last Line: Darkness for a last acre to devour Subject(s): Caves LYDSTEP CAVERNS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in these fretted caverns whence the sea Last Line: Better the droughts, the steeps, the glare of life! Subject(s): Caves; Wales; Caverns; Welshmen; Welshwomen MAURINE: PART 5, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A visit to a cave some miles away Last Line: E'en to the dregs, this bitter cup of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Caves; Hope; Love; Pain; Caverns; Optimism; Suffering; Misery MYSTERY OF THE CAVES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember the name of the story Last Line: Crying my name among blind fish, %wanting so much to come home Subject(s): Caves; Child Molesting; Danger; Family Life; Heroism; Parents NATURAL RESOURCES, by STEPHEN CRAIG KNAUTH Poem Source First Line: Soft black bituminous nights of childhood Last Line: On great dark pedestals of love Subject(s): Caves; Coal Mines And Miners OF MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The miner delves in caverns of the earth Last Line: Life thrills, grows luminous-large, smells sweet with balm and myrrh. Subject(s): Caves; Earth; Life; Mines & Miners; Music & Musicians; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; Caverns; World; Seamen; Sails ON A CAVE, by ANYTE Poem Text First Line: Come, traveller, this hollow rock beneath Last Line: In these cool streams that from the cavern burst. Alternate Author Name(s): Anytes Subject(s): Caves; Rest; Travel; Caverns; Journeys; Trips PURE ELEMENT OF WATERS! WHERESOE'ER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Their anguish,—and they blend sweet songs with thine Subject(s): Springs; Water; Caves SALSETTE AND ELEPHANTA, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis eve -- and o'er the face of parting day Last Line: And seeks redemption from the incarnate god. Subject(s): Elephanta Caves, India; Hinduism; Religion; Salsette (island), India; Sculpture & Sculptors; Theology SALVE!, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To live within a cave - it is most good Last Line: They have a cheerful warmth -- those ashes on the stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Caves; Caverns SECRET CAVERN, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Underneath the boardwalk, way, way back Last Line: None of all the other children know! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Caves; Imagination TEMPLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: I have devoted more than one day simply Last Line: Pine-cones are strewn like roses Subject(s): Caves; Temples; Thought THE CAVE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Once, in that cave, I heard my breath Last Line: Back to the open light and home. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Caves; Caverns THE GROTTO OF EGERIA, by THOMAS KIBBLE HERVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gush of waters! - faint and sweet and wild Last Line: And commune with a spiritual bride! Subject(s): Caves; Egeria (nymph); Rome, Italy; Caverns THE MYSTERY OF THE CAVES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't remember the name of the story Subject(s): Caves; Child Molesting; Danger; Family Life; Heroism; Parents; Caverns; Child Abuse; Relatives; Heroes; Heroines; Parenthood THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 10, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the cliffs I sat alone Last Line: The moon is the hub of the mind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Caves; Chinese Literature; Mountains; Solitude; Caverns; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 163, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a single cave Last Line: I have the primordial buddha Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Ascesticism; Buddhism; Caves; Chinese Literature; Buddha; Buddhists; Caverns THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 33, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We slip into tientai caves Last Line: And going for a long long time Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Caves; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Hell; Caverns THE SEA-SIDE CAVE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the dead of night by the side of the sea Last Line: Where some murdered man must be. Subject(s): Caves; Caverns THE SWEETWATER CAVERNS, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Curious to see caverns Subject(s): Lakes; Caves; Youth; Aging; Disappointment; Pools; Ponds; Caverns WELCOME, TO THE CAVES OF ARTA, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such subtile filigranity and nobless of construccion Last Line: It is some poor touristers, in the depth of obscure cristal,%wich deceased of their emocion on a pas Subject(s): Caves; Mallorca; Tourists |
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