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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BAREFOOT BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A barefoot boy! I mark him at
Last Line: Like unto the clasp of an old pocketbook.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Youth; Streams; Creeks; Childhood


A BROOK IN THE CITY, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The farmhouse lingers, though averse to square
Last Line: This new-built city from both work and sleep.
Subject(s): Animals; Brooks; Rivers; Streams; Creeks


A BROOK SONG, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm hastening from the distant hills
Last Line: "or whither we are going!"
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


A CLEARING BY A STREAM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What impels the mind to soar forth?
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


A COMPARISON [ADDRESSED] TO A YOUNG LADY, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet stream that winds through yonder glade
Last Line: And heaven reflected in her face.
Variant Title(s): The Stream;to A Young Lady;addressed To A Young Lady
Subject(s): Brooks; Youth; Streams; Creeks


A FAREWELL, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea
Last Line: For ever and for ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Brooks; Inland Waters; Streams; Creeks


A MEADOW BROOK, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a quiet nook by a meadow brook
Last Line: That meadow brook far away.
Subject(s): Brooks; Memory; Streams; Creeks


A MEMORY: BANKS OF CALDER AND COUSIN DORA, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Straying, musing, singing, dreaming
Last Line: She has passed away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Brooks; Cousins; Death; Nature; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The


AN OLD-TIMER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here where the wayward stream
Last Line: I -- breathless -- wait.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brooks; Faces; Streams; Creeks


ARALUEN (1), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: River, myrtle rimmed and set
Last Line: Stays, and paints your face for me.
Subject(s): Brooks; Memory; New South Wales, Australia; Streams; Creeks


AS RIVERS OF WATER IN A DRY PLACE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lonely, lonely lay the hill
Last Line: Fresh as god's latest word!
Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Water; Streams; Creeks


BE HOPEFUL: 3. THE STREAM, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bright stream may shrink in summer's hot fire
Last Line: The life-stream again runs fresh 'mong the flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Brooks; Hope; Streams; Creeks; Optimism


BEAVER BROOK, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hushed with broad sunlight lies the hill
Last Line: And labor meet delight half-way.
Subject(s): Brooks; Waverly, Massachusetts; Streams; Creeks


BIRCH STREAM, by ANNA BOYNTON AVERILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: At noon, within the dusty town
Last Line: Thy memory doth with me abide.
Subject(s): Birch Stream, Maine; Brooks; Streams; Creeks


BRIGHT WATER FOR ME!, by JAMES P. CRAWFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: O! Come, come with me to the stream in the glade
Last Line: And our drink the cool water, pure water shall be.
Subject(s): Brooks; Water; Streams; Creeks


BY THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lone 'bush' breaks: and the forest dips and clings
Last Line: "^2^ australia has, however, her own ""song-thrush"" and ""song-lark."
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Australia; Brooks; Desolation; Forests; Trees; Streams; Creeks; Woods


CHRISTMAS CREEK, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Phantom streams were in the distance - mocking lights of lake and pool
Last Line: "fitly -- ""christmas creek""."
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


COMMUNITY, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Burned into parchment, sung in a brook
Last Line: For the virginal garland of spring.
Subject(s): Brooks; Spring; Streams; Creeks


DOWN ON WRIGGLE CRICK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mostly, folks is law-abidin'
Last Line: Down on wriggle crick!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brooks; Crime & Criminals; Hotels; Streams; Creeks; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


DOWN THE BROOK, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I leave the meadow for the brook
Last Line: The clouded moon is dim and bleary.
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


FLOOD CONTROL, by LOUIS STODDARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: You should have seen the flooded creek today
Last Line: Conceding them life nor questioning their reasons.
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


FOR ROSALINE'S ALBUM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you hear the low winds singing
Last Line: None must come save you and she.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Bells; Brooks; Mothers; Wind; Streams; Creeks


FOURTH OF JULY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When july fourth was getting near
Last Line: And tell the rest another year.
Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Vermont; Streams; Creeks; Independence Day; Liberty


GREEN FIELDS AND RUNNING BROOKS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! Green fields and running brooks
Last Line: Sing green fields and running brooks!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brooks; Fields; Streams; Creeks; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


HOME AGAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm bin a-visitun 'bout a week
Last Line: An' I'm come back home where my beau lives at.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Variant Title(s): A Very Youthful Affair
Subject(s): Brooks; Cousins; Home; Streams; Creeks


HYLA BROOK, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By june our brook's run out of song and speed
Last Line: We love the things we love for what they are.
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


I KNOW A BROOK, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a brook that winds its way along
Last Line: Which he who drinks of never shall thirst more.
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


I WAS A BROOK, by SARA COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was a brook in straitest channel pent
Last Line: To shew their forms and hues in the all revealing sun.
Subject(s): Brooks; Water; Streams; Creeks


ILLA CREEK, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A strong sea-wind flies up and sings
Last Line: And hidden mountain altars.
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


IN SWIMMING-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clouds above, as white as wool
Last Line: Dropping, drifting through it all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Clouds; Swimming & Swimmers; Streams; Creeks; Childhood; Swimmers


INVERSNAID, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This darksome burn, horseback brown
Last Line: Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
Subject(s): Brooks; Environment; Nature; Scotland; Wilderness; Streams; Creeks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


IZAAK WALTON TO RIVER AND BROOK, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Which is more sweet, - the slow mysterious stream
Last Line: While rays of sun make rainbows in the spray?
Subject(s): Brooks; Rivers; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Streams; Creeks


LUGGIE, PAST AND PRESENT, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen thy crystal waters
Last Line: Night and day is running ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Streams; Creeks


MANY WATERS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were live waters racing down
Last Line: My heart of music had her fill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Brooks; Inland Waters; Streams; Creeks


MILLCREEK, by MATTIE-LOU BLACKWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some of its willows are young, but most of them are too old
Last Line: Once so free and so lovely, and now this feculent slave.
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


MINETTA WATER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deer-hoof dint and moccasin print
Last Line: Through the crumbled homes of men.
Subject(s): Animals; Brooks; Hunting; New York City - Dutch Period; Streams; Creeks; Hunters


MOUNTAIN STREAM, by LOUISE DRISCOLL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The stream that wore this little valley down
Last Line: To wear and wear.
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


NARRARA CREEK, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the rainy hill-heads, where, in starts and in spasms
Last Line: When the sorrowful days of my singing are over.
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


NEAR A QUIET STREAM, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When musing near a quiet stream
Last Line: Have no wise substance anywhere.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


NILOTIC DRINKING SONG, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You may water your bays, brother-poets
Last Line: And sing for the glory of ancient nilus!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Brooks; Drinks & Drinking; Silence; Singing & Singers; Streams; Creeks; Wine


ON THE PAROO, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when the strong stream of a wintering sea
Last Line: Of fiery clouds and immemorial rains.
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


OUR BOYHOOD HAUNTS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! I'm going back where
Last Line: Boneset, mint, and pennyroyal.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Youth; Streams; Creeks; Childhood


PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This pan is but an idle god, I guess
Last Line: Whether to fan his wings or fly without.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brooks; Fantasy; Forests; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Streams; Creeks; Woods


PEBBLES, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who first heard the high and silver treble
Last Line: And found the forest a new tune.
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 23. A BROOK IN WINTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange as a frozen dream
Last Line: Is this stilled winter stream.
Subject(s): Brooks; Dreams; Winter; Streams; Creeks; Nightmares


QUATORZAINS: 3. RIVULETS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a lovely stream; its wavelets purl
Last Line: So I will save it, lest the elf should drown.
Subject(s): Brooks; Fairies; Streams; Creeks; Elves


RIBBLEDIN; OR THE CHRISTENING, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No name hast thou! Lone streamlet
Last Line: The wildness of thy tresses.
Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer
Subject(s): Brooks; Names; Streams; Creeks


ROARING BROOK; A PASSAGE OF SCENERY IN CONNECTICUT, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a mountain stream that with the leap
Last Line: To loiter with these wayside comforters.
Subject(s): Brooks; Connecticut; Landscape; Streams; Creeks


SILVER CREEK FALLS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: With a voice of many thunders
Last Line: Silver creek, sing on for me!
Subject(s): Brooks; Waterfalls; Streams; Creeks


SISTER MARIE; A LEGEND OF TYROL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I through the valley of klausen went
Last Line: "ah! Pity me, dear lord,"" it sighed."
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Brooks; Death; Legends; Nuns; Prayer; War; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The


SONG (8), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stream moaneth as it floweth
Last Line: Lulling us from many woes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Brooks; Earth; Rain; Seasons; Streams; Creeks; World


SONNET: 6. TO A BROOK NEAR THE VILLAGE OF CORSTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As thus I bend me o'er thy babbling stream
Last Line: As thy soft sounds half heard, borne on the inconstant breeze.
Subject(s): Aging; Brooks; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Time; Streams; Creeks


STREAM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With swift delusional energy
Last Line: A delusional / solidity
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


THE ASPEN AND THE STREAM, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beholding element, in whose pure eye
Last Line: A darker head, a few more aspen-leaves
Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Brooks; Trees; Streams; Creeks


THE AUTHOR'S LIFE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My life is like the flowing stream / that glides where summer's beauties teem
Last Line: And center in my parent lake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Brooks; Life; Streams; Creeks


THE BANKS OF AVONLEE, by ROBERT GEMMELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The trees are cloth'd in richest green
Last Line: And by the banks of avonlee!
Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Streams; Creeks


THE BROOK, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up, my jewel! Let's away
Last Line: Stolen into the gulf for ever!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


THE BROOK, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Murmuring of the brook in late
Last Line: And I meant nothing, and I liked that too.
Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Rivers; Streams; Creeks


THE BROOK, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But yesterday this brook was bright
Last Line: By something worse than discontent!
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


THE BROOK, by ADIA JAMES LEWIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! I wonder, now I ponder
Last Line: To the river I will play.
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


THE BROOK, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bright mountain brook that flowest at my feet
Last Line: To do each day the work appointed me.
Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Solitude; Streams; Creeks; Loneliness


THE BROOK, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the mountain to the sea
Last Line: And I have many a mile to go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Brooks; Farewell; Streams; Creeks; Parting


THE BROOK AND THE OCEAN, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A brook from a headland was falling
Last Line: "drop of fresh water to drink."
Subject(s): Brooks; Sea; Streams; Creeks; Ocean


THE BROOK THAT RUNS TO FRANCE, by JOHN CLAIR MINOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The brook that threads the meadow
Last Line: Three thousand miles, and more!
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


THE BROOK-SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little brook! Little brook!
Last Line: Sing back to him the rest he used to know!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Singing & Singers; Streams; Creeks; Childhood


THE BROOK: SUMMER, by LAURA ABELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Clustering ferns lie cool
Last Line: Beside the current's murmuring.
Subject(s): Brooks; Collective Behavior; Pleasure; Streams; Creeks; Mobs; Crowds


THE BROOK; AN IDYL, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here by this brook we parted, I to the east
Last Line: But she -- you will be welcome -- o, come in!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Brooks; Landscape; Streams; Creeks


THE BROOK; AN IDYL: THE BROOK'S SONG, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I come from haunts of coot and hern
Last Line: But I go on forever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): The Song Of The Brook
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


THE BROOKLET, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O deep unlovely brooklet, moaning slow
Last Line: To sleep unsunned in an untrampled glen.
Subject(s): Brooks; Landscape; Streams; Creeks


THE BROOKSIDE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wandered by the brookside
Last Line: Was all the sound we heard.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Brooks; Courtship; Streams; Creeks


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 CALL OF THE STREAM, by CHARLES HENRY CRANDALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am sitting to - day at the desk alone
Last Line: I'm catching the train for trout.
Subject(s): Brooks; Fame; Rest; Solitude; Streams; Creeks; Reputation; Loneliness


THE COMPLAINT OF ROSAMOND, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out from the horror of infernal deeps
Last Line: Who made me known, must make me live unseen.
Subject(s): Brooks; Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Death; Ghosts; Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Life; Soul; Supernatural; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The


THE FROZEN STREAM, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stream that leapt and danced
Last Line: Murmuring its song?
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


THE HILL WATER, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a little brook
Last Line: Dear, murmuring water!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Brooks; Singing & Singers; Soul; Streams; Creeks


THE LITTLE BROOK OVER THE HILL, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little brook over the hill that my childhood / knew
Last Line: That had swept with death the little brook over the hill.
Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Death; Mountains; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE MUSIC OF THE STREAM, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it a spirit voice - an angel's song
Last Line: And beauty, bloom, and song exist no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Streams; Creeks


THE OTHER SIDE, by MARTHA BANNING THOMAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I want to push behind silence
Last Line: But cannot remember!
Alternate Author Name(s): Eden, Patience
Subject(s): Brooks; Rivers; Streams; Creeks


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 40, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Past thousands of layers of mountains and clouds
Last Line: And bird talk suddenly agrees with my thoughts
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Birds; Brooks; Chinese Literature; Quiet Life; Streams; Creeks


THE RESOLVE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To come to the river
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


THE SONG OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Straight from the cool green arms
Last Line: Of the dogwood's ivory gleam.
Subject(s): Brooks; Susquehanna (river); Travel; Water; Streams; Creeks; Journeys; Trips


THE SPRING AND THE BROOK; SONNET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It may be that the poet is as a spring
Last Line: The solitary parent spring behind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Brooks; Poetry & Poets; Streams; Creeks


THE STREAM AND THE TARN, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stream came plunging and leaping
Last Line: And the heart of pearl in its breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Brooks; Sea; Streams; Creeks; Ocean


THE STREAM'S SECRET, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What thing unto mine ear
Last Line: This hidden tide of tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


THE STREAMLET, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A thread-like stream, that had its source
Last Line: Died in the lake's engulfing gloom!
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


THE STREAMS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye have been holy, o founts and floods!
Last Line: Making the heart a shrine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


THE SUBTERRANEAN STREAM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Darkly thou glidest onward
Last Line: In one bright flood of day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks


THE TROUT-BROOK, by CARL WARING    Poem Text                    
First Line: You see it first near the dusty road
Last Line: To the charms of the meadow brook.
Subject(s): Brooks; Trout; Streams; Creeks


THE UNFORGOTTEN: 2, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She rested by the broken brook
Last Line: As I recall the blue?
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Brooks; Love - Loss Of; Streams; Creeks


THE VALLEY BROOK, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fresh from the fountains of the wood
Last Line: Press onward in the glorious strife.
Subject(s): Brooks; Inland Waters; Streams; Creeks


THE WASHER OF THE FORD, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a lonely stream afar in a lone dim land
Last Line: Along that silent strand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Brooks; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Redemption; Silence; Sin; Water; Streams; Creeks


THE WATER CROWVOOT, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O small-feac'd flow'r that now dost bloom
Last Line: Fair small-feäc'd flow'r o' the frome.
Subject(s): Bridges; Brooks; Flowers; Water; Streams; Creeks


THE WHITE CASCADE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What happy mortal sees that mountain now
Last Line: That on the mountain sings, and shines so far.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Birds; Brooks; Rivers; Streams; Creeks


THE WHOLE DUTY OF BERKSHIRE BROOKS, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To build the trout a crystal stair
Last Line: And whisper sorrow into sleep!
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Brooks; Streams; Creeks


THE YOUTH AND THE MILL-STREAM, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pretty brooklet, gaily glancing
Last Line: Tell that maiden all my passion!
Subject(s): Brooks; Love; Youth; Streams; Creeks


TIME OF CLEARER TWITTERINGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time of crisp and tawny leaves
Last Line: In the thicket while he sings!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Harvest; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Streams; Creeks


TO A MOUNTAIN BROOK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty and health do companion thee, friend
Last Line: Born of an impulse divine.
Subject(s): Beauty; Brooks; Mountains; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO A RIVER IN THE SOUTH, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call me no more, o gentle stream
Last Line: Old love shall dwell with old delight.
Subject(s): Brooks; England; Rivers; Streams; Creeks; English


TO MY BROOK, by JEAN FRANCOIS DUCIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Brook little known whose waters run
Last Line: How time's swift stream doth ever flow.
Subject(s): Brooks; Calm; Streams; Creeks; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. LITTLE BROOK WITHOUT A NAME, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little brook without a name, that hast been my companion for so many years
Last Line: And bear away on thy bosom, and scatter them likewise.
Subject(s): Brooks; Love; Nature; Spring; Streams; Creeks


WAKEFULNESS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drifting, idly drifting, where thought's varied streams
Last Line: Sleep, sweet sleep!
Subject(s): Brooks; Sleep; Streams; Creeks


WATER TABLE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How shy the attraction / of simple rain to the east wind
Last Line: To write his name
Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Nature; Seasons; September; Water; Fall; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


WEST RUNNING BROOK, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fred, where is north?
Last Line: To-day will be the day of what we both said
Subject(s): Marriage; Brooks; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The


WITH THOUGHTS OF ROUSSEAU, by HIRSCH LAZAAR SILVERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hence would kneel upon the grassy brink
Last Line: That cools the thirst of all the wilderness.
Subject(s): Brooks; Thought; Streams; Creeks; Thinking


WORTH FOREST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, prudence, you have done enough to-day
Last Line: "sir, the child is dead!"
Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Pilgrim Fathers; Rivers; Sussex, England; Worth Forest, England; Streams; Creeks


ZILLEBEKE BROOK, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This conduit stream that's tangled here and there
Last Line: On my way up to sanctuary wood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Brooks; World War I; Streams; Creeks; First World War