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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DAMS Matches Found: 11 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT WINTER'S EDGE, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard to imagine the creek without this luxury of destruction Last Line: The privet is doomed Subject(s): Winter; Dams LINES TO A PUMPING ENGINE FOR A RELIGIOUS HOUSE: 1. OLD STYLE, by FLORENCE CONVERSE Poem Text First Line: This is sister water's cell Last Line: Sing laus deo! Subject(s): Religion; Water Supply; Wellesley College; Theology; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains LINES TO A PUMPING ENGINE FOR A RELIGIOUS HOUSE: 2. NEW STYLE, by FLORENCE CONVERSE Poem Text First Line: The little grassy hollow is sunny Last Line: So-called. Subject(s): Religion; Water Supply; Wellesley College; Theology; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains POSSESSION, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the shepherd in solitude crosses the deformed desert Last Line: Painted voices -- Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Pollution; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains THE BALLAD OF THE LONG DAM, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the day the dam gave way, I mind it / awfully well Last Line: And riley's daughter's married to me — honest, so help me god. Subject(s): Floods; Water; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DAM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All power is saved, having no end. Rises Subject(s): Dams; Rivers; Business; Businessmen; Businesswomen THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE FACE OF THE DAM: VIVIAN JONES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the hour he shuts the door and walks out of town; Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Snow; Dams; Work; Workers THE DESIRE OF WATER, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caught and composed, motionless blue, behind Last Line: Rise toward the dam's lip too much for flood gates Subject(s): Dams THE FOUNTAINS OF ASHOKAN, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Henceforth what dream can e'er efface Last Line: Would quaff new beauty in the glass! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains THE WATER-SPRINGS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arbor and orchard in our soul's south land Last Line: "give also springs of water!" Subject(s): Fruit; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains WATER TOWER AT WALDO, by DAISY MARITA BISHOP Poem Text First Line: A huge upthrust of turreted, white stone Last Line: And, half concealed, one violet blooms, alone. Subject(s): Water; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains |
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