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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DISASTERS Matches Found: 312 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FALL-CRICK VIEW OF THE EARTHQUAKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I kin hump my back and take the rain Last Line: It 'ud husk you out o' yer gravel Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones A PLEA FOR FLOOD IRESON, by CHARLES TIMOTHY BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old flood ireson! All too long Last Line: Shall cleanse the stain and expiate all. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, C. T. Subject(s): Disasters; Ireson, Floyd; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Shipwrecks A REQUIEM, by HARRIET MONROE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep softly in your ocean bed Last Line: Who teach us how to die. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) A REQUIEM FOR SOLDIERS LOST IN OCEAN TRANSPORTS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, after storms that woodlands rue Last Line: Round the lone spar where mid-sea surges pour. Subject(s): American Civil War; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Soldiers; United States - History A SEA STORY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence. A while ago Last Line: This day upon the sea. Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean A SECRET OF THE SEA, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down at the bottom of the sea Last Line: And the deep sea give up its dead! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Drowning; Shipwrecks; Dead, The A THROW OF THE DICE NEVER WILL ABOLISH CHANCE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A throw of the dice Last Line: All thought emits a throw of the dice Subject(s): Disasters; Fate; Luck; Shipwrecks; Destiny A WRECK IN SHREWSBURY INLET, by HENRY MORFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ocean sands are round her keel Last Line: Content to perish, ne'er to bow! Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks A WRECKED LOCOMOTIVE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: It lies upon the rocks, a shattered thing Last Line: And this thin gloaming thickens into night. Subject(s): Disasters; Railroad Wrecks; Train Wrecks ABIGAIL BECKER, by AMANDA THEODOSIA JONES Poem Text First Line: The wind, the wind where erie plunged Last Line: "more than I ought to do!" Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks ABSCESS, by FORREST GANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good morning kiss. Their teeth glance. Clack of june Subject(s): Disasters AENEID: MORNING AFTER SHIPWRECK, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mean time, in shades of night aeneas lies Last Line: He hand sustain'd a bow, her quiver hung behind Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks AFTER THE SHIPWRECK, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost, drifting, on the current, as the sun pours down Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks; Water AFTER THE SHIPWRECK, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost, drifting, on the current, as the sun pours down Last Line: To coat us with salt, we stop talking. We try to remember Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks; Water AGADIR, SELS., by ARTUR LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: I was reading of the hunter gracchus, whose coming was Last Line: Never more %forever %agadir Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Monuments; Statues; Stones ALBION MILLS ON FIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wednesday, march the second day Last Line: Tho' the albion mill's burnt to the ground Subject(s): Disasters; Fire ALEC YEATON'S SON; GLOUCESTER, AUGUST, 1720, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind it wailed, the wind it moaned Last Line: And the little child go free! Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean ALL AROUND US, by CONSTANCE URDANG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How many pallid christs, with painted blood Last Line: On his three legs, and the rain comes in its season %all around us, and waters weeds and gardens ali Subject(s): Disasters AN ELEGY UPON MRS. KIRK, UNFORTUNATELY DROWNED IN THAMES, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all the shipwracks, and the liquid graves Last Line: Return'd a venus back to thee again. Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Shipwrecks AN INTERNATIONAL EPISODE (1889), by CAROLINE KING DUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were ordered to samoa from the coast of panama Last Line: Judge if we do not love each other well. Subject(s): Americans In Oceania; Apia Bay, Samoan Islands; Disasters; Hurricanes; Shipwrecks ANNE'S BLUE GLASS GETS BROKEN IN THE EARTHQUAKE, by JAYNE VON DER EMBSE Poem Source First Line: Dear, jane, %my blue glass split from the pie safe like a truck Last Line: Against my side, metal on my tongue, voice muted %in water, hands freezing like blue glass Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes AQUARIUM, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Water tends to occupy the spaces love cannot reach Last Line: The sea is afraid of falling into the earth Subject(s): Disasters; Rain; Shipwrecks; Survival; Thirst; Water ARIEL'S SONG (1) [OR, DIRGE] [OR, A SEA DIRGE]. FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full fathom five thy father lies Last Line: Hark! Now I hear them - ding, dong, bell! Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Fairies; Mourning; Shipwrecks; Elves; Bereavement AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 1, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish & styrofoam Last Line: Red flowers & round open eyes Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 1, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish & styrofoam Last Line: Red flowers & round open eyes Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 2. THE TALE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He walks among the others: animals & neighbors. In the land of Last Line: Prince of tides has written this for you. The land of islands Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 2. THE TALE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He walks among the others: animals & neighbors. In the land of Last Line: Out of dreams. The prince of tides has written this for you. The land of islands Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 3. FOR MAKOTO ODA, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great quake / 'shook the earth Last Line: The words rewoven to the present day Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 3. FOR MAKOTO ODA, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great quake %'shook the earth Last Line: The words rewoven to the present day Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: [HOJOKI - CHOMEI AT TOYAMA], by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Months passed & people spoke about the quake no longer Variant Title(s): [hojoki-chomei In Kyoto-1177.-kobe 1995/96] Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: [HOJOKI - CHOMEI AT TOYAMA], by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Months passed & people spoke about the quake no longer Last Line: Uncertain passage through a foreign world Variant Title(s): [hojoki-chomei In Kyoto-1177.-kobe 1995/96 Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan BABIES IN THE MEXICO CITY EARTHQUAKE, by D. M. WALLACE Poem Source First Line: Days and days after the crumbling Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Mexico City BE SURE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: You who are roofed and fed Last Line: Only their bodies build you barricade. Subject(s): Disasters; Fear; War BLACKOUT, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: Bill the hurricane is standing on my roof Last Line: But this black wall of water, this ocean %tipped on its side Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Hurricanes; Nature; Rain; Weather BOAT, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: At 8:35 in the evening he drops the anchor Last Line: He stands looking at what has happened Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Storms BOEING CROSSING, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My head is in the clouds Last Line: Lose our heads in the clouds Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Clouds; Disasters; Sky BONES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It takes a long time to hear what the sands seem to bee saying Last Line: They extend farther than a man can see Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Gulls; Shipwrecks; Storms; Wind CAESAR'S LOST TRANSPORT SHIPS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some fell away to westward with the wind Last Line: And overhead the petrel wafted wide. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Disasters; Shipwrecks CAPE COD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The graves of desire nye and patty nye (1794) Last Line: In her hem? Subject(s): Cape Cod; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Travel; Journeys; Trips CAPE DREAD, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For those who come after, that is how we named it Last Line: But delectable, at least at that season Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Shipwrecks; Storms; Weather; Wind CAPTAIN BING, by LYMAN FRANK BAUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Captain bing was a pirate king Last Line: It took him unawares! Alternate Author Name(s): Baum, L. Frank Subject(s): Disasters; Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Treasures; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean CATASTROPHE (CHIMBOTE), by JULIO ORTEGA Poem Source First Line: Devastated land, and I searched Last Line: Time erases me at the whim of fate Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Peru; Ruins CHARLESTON, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is this the price of beauty! Fairest, thou Last Line: For thou, destroyer, art man's only hope! Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Disasters; Earthquakes CONDUCTOR BRADLEY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Conductor bradley, (always may his name Last Line: God give us grace to live as bradley died! Subject(s): Disasters; Railroad Wrecks; Train Wrecks CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 3. NATURAL AIR CONDITIONING, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: They don't like you they come Last Line: Wallace stegner on the floor Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Disasters; Earthquakes; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CONVOY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The smoke hung low on the sand-duned shore Last Line: Sound four? Subject(s): Disasters; Ferry Boats; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean COURAGE, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou made shipwreck of thy happiness? Last Line: Where a bark went down. Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery DARK PROPHECY: I SING OF SHINE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: And, yeah, brothers / while white/america sings about the unsink- Subject(s): African Americans; Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Negroes; American Blacks DARK PROPHECY: I SING OF SHINE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And, yeah, brothers %while white/america sings about the unsink- Last Line: And when the news hit shore that the titanic had sunk %shinewas up in harlem damn near drunk Subject(s): African Americans; Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) DE EYARFQUAKE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: De eyarfquake a-shakin' Last Line: Dey 'll nevah tech de groun'. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes DEAD CENTER, by MICHAEL CAREY Poem Source First Line: He didn't know why he did it, he just did. There were seven tornadoes Last Line: Grass and a fading terror and the rush of blood in the urge to be lifted Subject(s): Disasters; Hurricanes; Weather; Wind DEAD JOYS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moan on with thy loud changeless wail Last Line: Or art thou pitiless as wind or sea? Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Disasters; Funerals - At Sea; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Seamen; Sails DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SIBYLLA'S DIRGE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We do lie beneath the grass Last Line: And the drowned and the shipwrecked have happy graves. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks DINNER PARTY 1940, by P. M. SHERLOCK Poem Source First Line: Do you mind the news while we eat Last Line: Like cold lead in the belly Subject(s): Disasters DIVING INTO THE WRECK, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: First having read the book of myths Subject(s): Cousteau, Jacques (1910-1997); Disasters; Diving & Divers; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean DIVING INTO THE WRECK, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First having read the book of myths Last Line: Our names do not appear Subject(s): Cousteau, Jacques (1910-1997); Disasters; Diving And Divers; Sea; Shipwrecks DON'T THINK GOVERNMENTS END THE WORLD, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't think governments end the world. The blast Subject(s): Disasters DON'T THINK GOVERNMENTS END THE WORLD, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't think governments end the world. The blast Last Line: Name the one you're sure of. The history of nations %is cold; the world burns by generations Subject(s): Disasters DOOMSDAY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Disasters DOWN WITH THE OLD CANOE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was twenty-five years ago Last Line: That you are just as foolish as can be Subject(s): Disasters;jesus Christ;pride;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship); Self-esteem;self-respect DRIFTWOOD, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER Poem Text First Line: Beyond the reach of the hungry tides, a storm-wind swept you / high Last Line: Merely stray bits of drift-wood by life's grim fate betrayed. Subject(s): Disasters; Driftwood; Grief; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean EARTH TREMOR IN LUGANO, by JAMES KIRKUP Poem Source First Line: Open the window on the high Last Line: And staring up at the house that wears %telephone wires like a shawl Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Source First Line: Many a mountain that the sun has chosen Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by ROBERT ARTHUR DOUGLAS FORD Poem Source First Line: The seasons burn. The wind is dry Last Line: The blast with her too late warning %and testimony of love Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by JAMES KIRKUP Poem Source First Line: An old man's flamingo-coloured kite Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by KOKAN SHIREN Poem Source First Line: Still things moving Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by KUO MO-JO Poem Source First Line: The earth revives Last Line: But how does this knowledge benefit my soul? Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by GETRUDE MALONEY Poem Source First Line: What have I had from you? One look Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Go tell the earth to shake Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon rises as shizu rises from her couch Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon rises as shizu rises from her couch Last Line: A fan opening and closing Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE '89, by WILLIAM TALCOTT Poem Source First Line: It's hard to love a house Last Line: I'm not attached to things %it's the other way around %some things I didn't know I had %until I thre Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE AND AFTERSHOCKS, by BETH HOUSTON Poem Source First Line: To be between the mattresses Last Line: On the edge of my life %for the big one Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE WEATHER, by CAROL CIAVONNE Poem Source First Line: Nicole found the black kitten dead Last Line: Temperature climate we %know we are standing %on thin ice Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE WEATHER, by FIONA KIDMAN Poem Source First Line: For three days now, the air %has been quiet and still Last Line: That you were about to devour me %I wish this weather %wouldbreak soon Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKES, by SUSAN LANE Poem Source First Line: He said the earth whistled Last Line: Along the fault, fear snaked %a hairline to the heart %stilltrembling, alive Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKES HAPPEN, by ALAN C. FOX Poem Source First Line: After the six perfect hours Last Line: And called %our home Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Nature EASY RIDER BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Now tell me : where my easy rider's gone Last Line: You turn your back to quit me : woman and you don't know how Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Disasters; Railroad Wrecks EGGSTRAX FROM THE MALOJA GAZETTE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is our painful duty to denounce to a repugnant public, a most fearful Last Line: Qed as a mucilaginous but merited motto, worked in periwinkle %shells Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Disasters; Fear; News; Travel ELEGY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark gathering clouds involve the threatening skies Last Line: And bear the injured to eternal sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Dead, The EMARICDULFE, by E. C. Poem Source First Line: Within her hair venus and cupid sport them Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks ENOUGH SAID, by CLARK MCADAMS Poem Text First Line: Votes for women Last Line: Tells the tale. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Women's Rights; Feminism EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: DESTROYERS IN COLLISION, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For fog and fate no charm is found Last Line: Cut down by my best friend Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks; World War I ETERNAL CITY, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the explosion or cataclysm, that big Last Line: Perfect human visions, all the old perfect loves Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Disasters EVERYTHING, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: When the river rose that year, we were beside it Last Line: And that everything would never be the same Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Nature; Rain EX-VOTO FOR A SHIPWRECK, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hele hele the king is a great king Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks EX-VOTO FOR A SHIPWRECK, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hele hele the king is a great king Last Line: Of the little upside down laugh of the sea in the sunken ship's gorgeous potholes Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks EXPLOSION, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day of the explosion Last Line: Somehow from the sun towards them, %one showing the eggs unbroken Subject(s): Disasters; Mines And Miners FACING INTO IT; FOR LARRY LEVIS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So it is here, then, after so long, and after all Last Line: And winter in straw. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Autumn; Desolation; Disasters; October; Seasons; Storms; Fall FAIR PLAY, by M. L. CLAWSON Poem Text First Line: A monument for millionaires Last Line: To the men who died with their jobs. Subject(s): Disasters; Labor & Laborers; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Work; Workers FAMILY MEETING FOR THE DISPOSAL OF THE WRECK, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a full house, bringing home Last Line: Themselves, now that he needed them no more Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks FATE'S COMEDY, by THOMAS DOOLAN Poem Source First Line: A thousand years since, fate had planned Last Line: Began to plot another play Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) FAULT LINE, by DAVID RIGSBEE Poem Source First Line: Some cows on the path and everywhere scrub Last Line: Upward, by paths divided everywhere Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Nature FEARFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN SCOTLAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A dreadful and heartrending sight Last Line: Of dark eternity Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;disasters;scotland; "dead, The; FIGURING IT ALL UP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The captain strode the quarter deck Last Line: The old arithmetic? Subject(s): Battleships;disasters;sea;shipwrecks;war;waves; Ocean FINAL MOMENTS, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fo'c'sle had gone under the creep Last Line: The grey shape with the palaeolithic face %was still the master of the longitudes Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The sea crashed over the grim gray rocks Last Line: "the flotsam and jetsam of human life, / no saving reflux knows" Subject(s): Disasters;sea;shipwrecks; Ocean FRANCISCA DOLOROSA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Fore-doomed the horror of the age to bear Last Line: A resurrexit in a requiem chant. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Dead, The FRANCISCA GLORIOSA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A crown on her head and triumphant, francisca shall / mount to her seat Last Line: "then the world shall unite with her children to hail her, ""francisca the blest!" Subject(s): Disasters; Lightning; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Lightning Rods GOD MOVES ON THE WATER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation Last Line: "well, he could not pay his fare" Subject(s): Disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship) GRACE DARLING; OR THE WRECK OF THE 'FORFARSHIRE', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the night was beginning to close in one rough september day Last Line: And for her equal in true heroism we cannot find another. Subject(s): Disasters; Heroism; Pain; Sea; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Storms; Survival; Wind; Heroes; Heroines; Suffering; Misery; Ocean HAITI, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bare, utilitarian lobby of my building, Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Haiti; Disasters HARDY, THOMAS, by H. REA WOODMAN Poem Source First Line: The convergence of the twain Last Line: In a solitude of the sea Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) HARTLEY PIT CATASTROPHE, by JOHN STANYAN BIGG Poem Source First Line: Death in the palace; death within the cot Last Line: The living need what we can give them -- bread Subject(s): Charity; Disasters; Mines And Miners HAWAII BOUND: 1. TRUTH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: All ashore that's going!' Last Line: Amid an earthquake shock. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Hawaii; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips HEADLINES, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: A thousand men are dead in syria Last Line: As the others run. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Dead, The HEAVED FROM THE EARTH, by BESMILR BRIGHAM Poem Source First Line: After the tornado, a dead moccasin Last Line: Pushing the fire thorns in Subject(s): Disasters; Earth; Hurricanes; Storms; Thunder HERNDON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, shout and rave, thou cruel sea Last Line: Such knighthood as the grave can give. Subject(s): Disasters; Herndon, William Lewis (1818-1891); Shipwrecks HIS CROWN OF SHAME (ON THE SINKING OF THE 'LUSITANIA'), by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Another gem to deck your crown of shame Last Line: Hell's horrors pale before a prussian brain. Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Grief; Heaven; Lusitania (ship); Shipwrecks; William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise HOMESICK, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Shipwrecked in this grimy town, the worst / luck I have had Last Line: Oh! Tomorrow I'll be sailing out to sea. Subject(s): Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean HOW WE WENT OUT, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: She wore five skirts, he wore two hats Last Line: A yellow angel, but disguised. Subject(s): Disasters; Dreams; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Nightmares HUASCARAN, by PAUL C. METCALF Poem Source First Line: The incas are said to have encouraged pizzaro %to found lima as their revenge Last Line: You must remember not to forget Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Explorers; Incas; Peru; Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521) I LOVE ALL THINGS THAT CLUSTER ROUND THE SEA, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: I love all things that cluster round the sea: Last Line: And drop their anchors in the quiet bay. Subject(s): Anchors; Boats; Disasters; Harbors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Water; Ocean I SEE FROM BACK PORCHES - DOMESTIC BACK PORCHES, by VICENT ANDRES ESTELLES Poem Source Last Line: The air's full of bottles with messages from the shipwrecked Subject(s): Disasters; News; Shipwrecks IN APIA BAY, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ruin and death held sway Last Line: Of splendid chivalry and valor high! Subject(s): Apia Bay, Samoan Islands; Courage; Disasters; Hurricanes; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery IN MEMORIAM: THE TITANIC DISASTER, SELECTION, by H. REA WOODMAN Poem Text First Line: Impregnable foe from the arctic Last Line: By that singing before the gate. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) IN THE HILLS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow crawls up canyon walls; the Last Line: Somewhere the loud streets thunder, and one time there was a war. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Canyons; Cowboys; Disasters; Hunger; Smoke; Soldiers; War INFINITE, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've always liked this lonely hill Last Line: It is to shipwreck in that sea Subject(s): Disasters; Future Life; Shipwrecks JACK, by ANITA OLACHEA BUCCI Poem Source First Line: You and I have a lot in common,' I tell him, as we bundle up on the Last Line: We shiver in the sun: who said there's nothing new beneath it? Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Rivers; Tides; Water JERUSALEM, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four lamps were burning o'er two mighty grave Last Line: Though crushed and ruined all --which men have called divine. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Jerusalem JETSAM, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the coast for many a rood Last Line: Spared to them from the sea! Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks JUST A NAIL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once a captain, homeward bound Last Line: Turned the compass of the soul! Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks JUST WHISPER THE MESSAGE, by THOMAS H. MULVEY Poem Text First Line: The lights were softly beaming o'er the brilliant ballroom floor Last Line: The sweet-heart maid in calmness blankly prayed. Subject(s): Disasters; Prayer; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) JUSTICE LISTENS AT THE GATES OF BEAUTY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flight / pauses in the tree ferns Last Line: Indeed above everything Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Courts & Courtiers; Disasters; Beauty KING PHILIP'S MEN, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Text First Line: At dusk they heard the roar Last Line: "dauntless in death!" Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Faith; God; Philip, King (native American Chief); Shipwrecks; Spain; Spanish Armada; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed; Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76) LAKE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between arid mountains Subject(s): Disasters; Lakes; Shipwrecks; Water; Pools; Ponds LAKE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between arid mountains Last Line: And an infinite shipwreck Subject(s): Disasters; Lakes; Shipwrecks; Water LAL OF KILRUDDEN, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kilrudden ford, kilrudden dale Last Line: And lal's last bed the plunging sea Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks LATERNA MAGICA, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you remember Last Line: That rise like faces out of smoke. Subject(s): Accidents; Disasters; Hospitals; Miracles LEAK SOMEWHERE, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No toy in a bathtub, the titanic Last Line: In random order, and we start to rock %in one another's arms Subject(s): Disasters; Motion Pictures; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) LETTER FROM A RUBBER RAFT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every sleep is a new confusion of hope Last Line: I may live another day Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks; Survival LIFE'S JOURNEY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What laughter and singing! The sun's rays crossing Last Line: How heavy my heart! My home how far! Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks LIVING IN THE EARTHQUAKE ZONE, by ANTONY CHRISTIE Poem Source First Line: The house is stone and mortar Last Line: Your face blurred and bloody %through the ice window Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Houses; Winter LOOK TO THE END, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The german empire is no more Last Line: O, god!—and we've been proud! Subject(s): Disasters; Germany; Lusitania (ship); Shipwrecks; United States; War; Germans; America LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Right on our flank the crimson sun went down Subject(s): Birkenhead (ship); Courage; Disasters; Shipwrecks LOST AT SEA, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From sparta to apollo we Last Line: And in one grave men laid us here. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks LOST AT SEA, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, misty gerenia, ill crag, thou shouldst stand facing Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks MARY ROSS, by BLANCHE EDITH BAUGHAN Poem Source First Line: What was the hardest hour,' you ask Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks MEVILLE, AMERICA, by ARTUR LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: He had spent his youth at sea, had read Last Line: And distances were annihilated by fire that exploded in captivity Subject(s): Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Shipwrecks MOLASSES REEF WRECK, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: No telling %how many ships Last Line: Face banishment from these our sovereign %blest shores Subject(s): Artifacts; Colonialism; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Coral; Disasters; Diving And Divers; Explorers; Seaweed; Shipwrecks; Slavery; Spain; West Indies NO SHIPWRECK OF VIRTUE. TO A FRIEND, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sail'st with others, in this argus here Last Line: And 'midst a thousand gulfs to be secure. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks O SEA!, by LUCIAN B. WATKINS Poem Text First Line: O sea! O sea! O sea! Last Line: With earth's humanity! Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) O'SULLIVAN'S RETURN, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O'suillebhain has come Last Line: "is it thus, is it thus, that you return?" Subject(s): Bantry Bay, Ireland; Disasters; Shipwrecks OCCASIONAL ELEGY, IN WHICH 'THE SHIPWRECK' IS CONCLUDED, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scene of death is closed! The mournful strains Last Line: In silent tribute pay her kindred tear. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Dead, The OCEANS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: I have a feeling that my boat Last Line: And are we standing now, quietly, in the new life Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Waves ODYSSEY: BOOK 5. ODYSSEUS - NYMPH AND SHIPWRECK, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As dawn rose up from bed by her lordly mate tithonus Last Line: Blessed sleep that sealed his eyes at last Subject(s): Disasters; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Shipwrecks; Ulysses OLD COUNSEL OF YOUNG MASTER OF A WRECKED CALIFORNIA CLIPPER, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come out of the golden gate Last Line: All hands save ship! Has startled dreamers. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks ON MR. JOHNSON'S SEVERAL SHIPWRECKS, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He that has never yet acquainted been Last Line: But fortune's sport, are providence's care. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks ON THE DEATH OF M. D'OSSOLI & HIS WIFE, MARGARET FULLER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over his millions death has lawful power Last Line: Take we our seats and let the dirge begin. Subject(s): Disasters; Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850); Shipwrecks ON THE DEATH OF MR. JAMES VALENTINE, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye clouds that in tempestuous grandeur driven Last Line: And give me back my loved, lamented valentine. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Dead, The ON THE GREAT FOG IN LONDON, DECEMBER 1762, by JAMES EYRE WEEKS Poem Text First Line: Lost and bewildered in the thickening mist Last Line: Or corks afloat upon the sullen flood. Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Fog; Mist; Soldiers; Haze ON THE LATE SHIFT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seven waggons to siding four, one to the buffer / end Last Line: For a mourning dress at dawn. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Disasters; Heaven; Railroad Wrecks; Dead, The; Paradise; Train Wrecks ON THE LOSS OF THE 'AVENGER', by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What heart unmov'd, what eye without a tear Last Line: Then let their cry come unto thee, and save! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks ON THE LOSS OF THE PEGASUS; DELIVERED BY MRS. WARNER AT HAYMARKET, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Not a sound! No whisper! No demur! Last Line: With breakers huge enough to break the heart! Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toll for the brave! Last Line: Shall plough the wave no more. Variant Title(s): The Royal George Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Kempenfelt, Richard (1718-1782); Sea; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery; Ocean ON THE SLOW TRAIN PASSING THROUGH, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's moody furniture and the town of moody. Also the display Last Line: The conductor hitched up the trolley and they went on with their regular day. Subject(s): Disasters; Fire; Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips OUR SEA HEROES, by E. J. THIBAUT Poem Text First Line: Carried away down in the atlantic Last Line: For the woman and also, for the child. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE EARTHQUAKE, by NOELLE SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: I know the locomotive rattle of windows, the asking Last Line: Sigh at spartan future, look away with what is left of sight Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 3. THE SHIPWRECKED ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope and love! All crumbled to atoms Last Line: Deep in the humid sand. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks PLOWDEN HALSEY; 1812, by CAROLINE FRANCES ORNE Poem Text First Line: Live the name of plowden halsey Last Line: Plowden sleeps below. Subject(s): Disasters; New London, Connecticut; Shipwrecks PORTLAND' GOING OUT, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early that afternoon, as we keep Last Line: All of disaster between us - a gulf %beyond reckoning. It begins where we are Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks POSTSCRIPT; TO MAXIME KUMIN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear max. I call you that because Last Line: "here, it hurts." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Disasters; Kumin, Maxine; Lightning; Pain; Trees; Lightning Rods; Suffering; Misery PRAYER OF A CHRISTIAN, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god, I know that thou art good Last Line: Thy love is strong for aye Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Prayer PRESQUE ISLE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How well I remember the day that I spent Last Line: And pray for an earthquake to sink the presque isle. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Islands; Prayer QUAKE IN TURKEY, by DAN STRYK Poem Source First Line: If the old grey-beard whose cramped black fist Last Line: For the sweet unleavened %bread, browning on the stones that covered sons Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes QUAKE THEORY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When two planes of earth scrape along each other Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes QUAKE THEORY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When two planes of earth scrape along each other Last Line: The earth cracks %and innocent people slip gently in like swimmers Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes RAGTIME!, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ragtime! Ragtime! Keep it going still! Last Line: Gently the music fades away—and so, god rest us all! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Music & Musicians; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Dead, The REDEEMED!, by UNKNOWN+155 Poem Source First Line: They stand redeemed! They are not what we said Last Line: That wraps the earth in brotherhood today Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) RESPECTED, FEARED, AND SOMEHOW LOVED, by MARJORIE WELISH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the long run we must fix our compass Last Line: Shipwrecked icily, the windows called away? Subject(s): Accidents; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Disasters; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The ROOSEVELT AND THE ANTINOE, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her high freeboard towering above the pier Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Shipwrecks SACRED EPIGRAM: BUT SOME DOUBTED, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indeed the quaking earth shakes, but Last Line: In this very way, that they cannot speak Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes SAILOR ASHORE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What unsteady ways the solid earth has Last Line: Bitch-sea. Which is what they gave you legs for Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Sailors And Sailing; Shipwrecks; Storms SAN FRANCISCO: 1 (APRIL, 1906), by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who more shall trust thee, nature; who so dare Last Line: Thine own, yet ours — mother, what hast thou done? Subject(s): Disasters; Nature; San Francisco Earthquake & Fire (1906) SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 4. THE WRECK, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Its huge red prow Last Line: Alone with its forgotten tragedy. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks SAVING A TRAIN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poor old woman lived on the line of the ohio railway Last Line: Which should be written on her tombstone in letters of gold. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Disasters; Heroism; Memory; Railroad Wrecks; Storms; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Train Wrecks SEA SORROW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: We lay along the steamer's deck Last Line: Twill be memorial day. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Holidays; Memorial Day; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Declaration Day SEA TRADE, by ISIDORUS AEGEATES Poem Text First Line: Eteocles was I, whom hope of gain Last Line: Blow on the threshing-floor, and on the sails. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks SHEKLA: A VISION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Shekla's magic island lay Last Line: Writes this tale of shekla here. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Heaven; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Paradise; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore SHIP NEWS, by A-N Poem Text First Line: Piraeus - salamis - what sails are these Last Line: Piraeus . . . Salamis . . . They are lost between . . . Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Greece; Shipwrecks; Greeks SHIP-WRACK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, who has suffer'd ship-wrack, feares to saile Last Line: Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks SHIPWRECK, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The first few days we worked Last Line: I began to keep a diary Subject(s): Disasters; Love; Relationships; Shipwrecks SHIPWRECK, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three chinese in yellow coats stood on dunes, waist-high Last Line: Feeding everywhere. Subject(s): Disasters; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850); Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); James, Henry (1843-1916); Refugees; Shipwrecks; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) SHIPWRECK, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tale is different if even a single breath Last Line: Grew gentle, spared them, while they died of that knowledge Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Seashore; Shipwrecks SHIPWRECK, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She struck one night on a sunken ledge Last Line: "the way I done,"" he said." Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks SHIPWRECKED, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Source First Line: Before the wine-shop which o'erlooks the beach Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks SHIPWRECKED YOUTH REACHES LAND, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the flowery season of the year Last Line: For even boulders rude %are flattered by marks of gratitude Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks SIR PATRICK SPENS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "the king sits in dunfermline town [or, dumferling toune]" Last Line: "and there lies gude [or, good, guid] sir patrick spens, / with the scots lords at his feit [or, fee Variant Title(s): Sir Patrick Spence Subject(s): Disasters;drowning;duty;sailing & Sailors;sea;shipwrecks;war; Ocean SKIPPER IRESON'S RIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the rides since the birth of time Last Line: By the women of marblehead! Subject(s): Disasters; Duty; Ireson, Floyd; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Shipwrecks SPANIARDS' GRAVES AT THE ISLES OF SHOALS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sailors, did sweet eyes look after you Last Line: With thinking of your woe! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Spain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails STORM AND CALM, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are these kisses of the south Last Line: And rust or rot in idle joy! Subject(s): Arctic; Avalanches; Disasters; Storms SUNKEN GOLD, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In dim green depths rot ingot-laden ships Last Line: The gleam of irrecoverable gold. Subject(s): Disasters; Gold; Shipwrecks; Treasures TAKE THOUGHT, by PLATO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God by land and sea defend you Last Line: I am one he did not save. Variant Title(s): A Sailor's Epitaph Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE 'DISASTER', by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without rudder, without sail Last Line: Lost -- exultant, desolate! Subject(s): Disasters; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Soul; Storms; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean THE 'FRISCO EARTHQUAKE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the earth shook and trembled and hungry Last Line: Sad, ah, sad was their fate! Subject(s): Cities; Death; Disasters; Earthquakes; Urban Life; Dead, The THE AEOLIAN HARP; AT THE SURF INN, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: List the harp in window wailing Last Line: Thoughts that tongue can tell no word of! Subject(s): Disasters; Harps; Musical Instruments; Shipwrecks; Lyres THE ASHTABULA DISASTER, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard of the dreadful fate Last Line: For above they live again. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Disasters; Railroad Wrecks; Train Wrecks THE BOAT THAT NEVER SAILED, by JOHN PETER SJOLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the moan of a ghost that is doomed to rove Last Line: When the sea is black, in the dark of the moon. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE BURNING OF THE STEAMER 'CITY OF MONTREAL.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal Last Line: Therefore be prepared for that happy land where all troubles are o'er. Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Fire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Smoke; Steamboats; Valor; Bravery THE CAPTAIN'S WELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From pain and peril, by land and main Last Line: "that god's best gift is the wayside well!" Subject(s): Deserts; Disasters; Food & Eating; Shipwrecks; Wells THE CAUSE OF THE EARTHQUAKE AT NISHAPUR, by FASIHI KHVAFI Poem Text First Line: Through the shakes and the knocks of the earthquake Last Line: His eyes did pray? Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Religion; Theology THE CIGOA, by VIRGINIA RUSS Poem Text First Line: This drab shell cast upon the final shore Last Line: That mind might envisage a complete sphere. Subject(s): Amundsen, Roald (1872-1928); Disasters; San Francisco; Shipwrecks THE CLEPINGTON CATASTROPHE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a monday morning, and in the year of 1884 Last Line: To help the widows and the fatherless is god's command. Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Firefighters; Valor; Bravery THE COLLISION IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a sunday morning, and in the year of 1888 Last Line: When on the briny deep, far, far away! Subject(s): Disasters; English Channel; Shipwrecks; Storms THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN; LINES ON LOSS OF THE TITANIC, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a solitude of the sea Last Line: And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres. Subject(s): Disasters; Icebergs; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Ocean THE DAEMON, SELECTION, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the sightless seas of ether Last Line: And indifferent as they. Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Waves; Ocean THE DISASTROUS FIRE AT SCARBOROUGH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1898, and on the 8th day of june Last Line: And pray that god o'er us in the night watch will keep. Subject(s): Disasters; Fire THE EARTHQUAKE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: A rolling, grinding rumble: a sharp shudder Last Line: Dust and darkness! Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Fire THE EARTHQUAKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hour ago the lulling twilight Last Line: And still shall weep, a world above its loss. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Disasters; Earth; Earthquakes; Evening; Loss; World; Sunset; Twilight THE EARTHQUAKE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On from the spot, that felt the first dismay Last Line: Who touches into smoke th' eternal hills. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes THE EARTHQUAKE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calmly the night came down Last Line: No trace was left, no vestige shown. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes THE EARTHQUAKE AT CALLAO, by AGNES STRICKLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the vast pacific day's last smile Last Line: O'er his last home, and his loved kindred's graves. Subject(s): Callao, Peru; Disasters; Earthquakes THE ENGINEER'S SIGNAL, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two low whistles, quaint and clear Last Line: Guild lay under his engine, dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Variant Title(s): Gould's Signal;guild's Signal Subject(s): Disasters; Guild, William; Providence, Rhode Island; Railroad Wrecks; Train Wrecks THE EXPLOSION, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day of the explosion Subject(s): Disasters; Mines & Miners THE FECKLESS YEARS, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wounded took the stone-eyed girls Last Line: A crooner sang their dirge. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; War Injuries; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War THE FISHERMAN'S BETHROTHED, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crimson sun glared on her as she sat Last Line: Return to the victorian women writers project library Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Disasters; Fish & Fishing; Shipwrecks THE GREAT TITANIC, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was on one monday morning just about one o'clock Last Line: Sixteen hundred had to drown Subject(s): Disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship) THE HARVEST OF THE SEA, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jealous sea moaned in the april night Last Line: But through the world to-day, and up to heaven! Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) THE HOMEWARD-BOUND PASSENGER SHIP: DISASTER AT SEA, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT Poem Text First Line: The captain scans the ruffled zone Last Line: ^1^ a figurative expression, intended by the author to signify the horizon. Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean THE INCHCAPE ROCK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No stir in the air, no stir in the sea Last Line: The devil below was ringing his knell. Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE JULIE PLANTE, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: On wan dark night on lac st. Pierre Last Line: So long you stay on shore. Variant Title(s): The Wreck Of The Julie Plante;the Wreck Of The 'julie Plante' - A Legend Of Lac St. Pierre Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE KEARSARGE (1894), by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the gloomy ocean bed Last Line: To the formless thing that builded roncador. Subject(s): Disasters; Kearsarge (ship); Shipwrecks THE LOST STEAMSHIP, by FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, there! Fisherman, hold your hand! Last Line: "master, I was the second mate!" Variant Title(s): The Second Mate Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE MAN IN THE CAB, by NIXON WATERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Safe and snug in the sleeping-car Last Line: Of the man in the greasy overalls. Alternate Author Name(s): Martin, Peter Subject(s): Disasters; Railroad Wrecks; Storms; Train Wrecks THE MINUTE-GUN, by RICHARD SCRAFTON SHARPE Poem Text First Line: When in the storm on albion's coast Last Line: The minute-gun at sea. Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE NINTH OF AB, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, vain for hand of mine to strike this harp of / golden strings Last Line: A testimony to mankind that god shall keep his word. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Christianity; Disasters; Earthquakes; God; Israel; Jews; Memory; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Tragedy; Youth; Judaism; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery THE PEEL LIFE-BOAT, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of charley cain, the cox Last Line: Rolling in upon the dead lee-shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE PENNSYLVANIA DISASTER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1889, and in the month of june Last Line: And accidents will happen until doomsday! Subject(s): Disasters; Johnstown Flood (1889) THE PIRATE, by FLORENS FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: What d'ye think I want o' stars?-risin' Last Line: I feel them—o, I feel them a-draggin' of me down! Subject(s): Disasters; Gold; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Treasures; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 87, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A greedy man who piles up wealth Last Line: Flap your wings in the blue Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disasters; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity THE REASON WHY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Up and down the face of telegraph hill Last Line: And mayhap would have changed the end. Subject(s): Disasters; Gray (color); San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Grey (color) THE SEA'S WITHHOLDING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ladye's bower faced the sea Last Line: "can it be dawn and love away?" Subject(s): Disasters; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Shipwrecks; Storms; Wind THE SHIP-WRECKED LOVER, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The port-reeve's maid has laid her down Last Line: Were now her lover's pillow! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE SHIPMAN'S TALE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, my masters! I speak naught but truth Last Line: What ship, my masters? Know ye not? -- the world! Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE SHIPWRECK, by EDWARD HENRY PALMER Poem Text First Line: Upon the poop the captain stands Last Line: Preserved the sinking yawl. Alternate Author Name(s): Palmer, E. H. Subject(s): Disasters; Nonsense; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE SHIPWRECK OF IDOMENEUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swept from his fleet upon that fatal night Last Line: And sees not, but the gods look down on both. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Mythology; Sea; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Ocean THE SHIPWRECK, SELECTION, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain the cords and axes were prepared Last Line: And pressed the stony beach, a lifeless crew! Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE SHIPWRECK: CANTO 1, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A ship from egypt, o'er the deep impell'd Last Line: The pride and wonder of the aegean main. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE SHIPWRECK: CANTO 2, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu! Ye pleasures of the sylvan scene Last Line: The infected member from the trunk divides. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE SHIPWRECK: CANTO 3, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, in a barbarous age, with blood defiled Last Line: And lead them trembling from the fatal shore. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE SHIPWRECK: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While jarring interests wake the world to arms Last Line: And give its present horrors to the day. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE SILENT TOWER OF BOTTREAU, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tintadgel bells ring o'er the tide Last Line: Come to thy god at last!' Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE SONG OF MIRIAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ye daughters and soldiers of israel look back Last Line: Omnipotent-glorious-eternal-alone Variant Title(s): Sacred Melody Subject(s): Disasters;god;jews;miriam (bible);women In The Bible; Judaism THE SONG OF THE WILD STORM-WAVES (AFTER THE LOSS OF THE 'TARARUA'), by PERCY F. SINNETT Poem Text First Line: Oh, ye wild waves, shoreward dashing Last Line: Any more? Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE TASK: BOOK 2. THE TIME-PIECE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness Last Line: And the land stank, so numerous was the fry. Subject(s): Clergy; Disasters; Earthquakes; Peace; Universities & Colleges; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE TAY BRIDGE DISEASTER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful railway bridge of the silv'ry tay! Last Line: The less chance we have of being killed. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Railroad Wrecks; Storms; Dead, The; Train Wrecks THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 2. THE WRECK OF RIVERMOUTH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rivermouth rocks are fair to see Last Line: Mingled in peace like the night and day! Subject(s): Disasters; Hampton, New Hampshire; Seashore; Shipwrecks; Witchcraft & Witches; Beach; Coast; Shore THE TERRIFIC CYCLONE OF 1893, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1893, and on the 17th and 18th of november Last Line: And both these storms will be remembered for a very long time. Subject(s): Cyclones; Death; Disasters; Dundee, Scotland; Wind; Dead, The THE THREE BELLS [OF GLASGOW], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the low-hung night cloud Last Line: The lights of god draw nigh! Subject(s): Bells; Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE TITANIC, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The titanic left southampton Last Line: All the women he tried to save Subject(s): "astor, John Jacob (1864-1912);disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship); THE TITANIC, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was on one monday morning just about one o'clock Last Line: It was sad when that great ship went down Subject(s): Disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship) THE TITANIC, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As she sped from dawn to gloaming, a palace upon the sea Last Line: Immortal life, who greeted home-comers from the sea. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) THE TITANIC, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Tell me, do ye never hear it when the wind is / from the sea? Last Line: Was that loyal note of courage which goes singing through the world! Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Fights; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Valor; Bravery THE TITANIC, by GEORGE A. HILL Poem Text First Line: Steaming so swift and boldly Last Line: How quickly its is brought to naught. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) THE TITANIC, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was midnight on the sea Last Line: Fare thee, titanic, fare thee well. Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly Subject(s): Disasters; Johnson, Jack (1878-1946); Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) THE TITANIC, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, you must go -- ask not to stay Last Line: Of life's great secret on each other's heart! Subject(s): Devotion; Disasters; Jews; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Straus, Isidor (1845-1912); Straus, Rosalie Ida (blun) (1849-1912); Titanic (ship); Judaism THE TITANIC, by BRAND WHITLOCK Poem Text First Line: And this, the dark ironic spirit mocked Last Line: And in the hour of failure, how to die. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) THE TITANIC DISASTER POEM, SELECTION, by J. H. MCKENZIE Poem Text First Line: And strauss, who did the children feed Last Line: As went down in the blue. Subject(s): Devotion; Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Straus, Isidor (1845-1912); Straus, Rosalie Ida (blun) (1849-1912); Titanic (ship) THE TITANIC PYGMY, by ROBERT HUGH MORRIS Poem Text First Line: Lord, we have boasted we are wise Last Line: And trav'lers to the unseen shore. Subject(s): Disasters; Humility; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Vanity; Worship THE WHITE SQUALL, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea was bright, and the bark rode well Last Line: And the bark is 'gulfed in an ocean grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Storms; Ocean THE WIND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Blow, blow, blow Last Line: Thou hast strewn with wrecks the sea! Subject(s): Disasters; Nature; Sea; Shipwrecks; Tragedy; Wind; Ocean THE WRECK, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the booming minute gun Last Line: The moaning of the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE WRECK, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Its masts of might, its sails so free Last Line: On a low lee shore. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE WRECK, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it thy lord the sea Last Line: "to turn is death." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE WRECK, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hide me, mother! My fathers belong'd to the church of old Last Line: And gone -- that day of the storm -- o mother, she came to me there! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE WRECK OF HE COLUMBINE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind christians, all pay attention to me Last Line: And conveyed to aalesund and there taking steamer to fair england. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Storms; Tragedy; Dead, The THE WRECK OF THE 'ABERCROMBIE ROBINSON', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1842 and on the 27th of may Last Line: Likewise captain bertie gordon, who behaved so heroically. Subject(s): Disasters; Heroism; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Heroes; Heroines THE WRECK OF THE 'INDIAN CHIEF', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 8th of january 1881 Last Line: The people's joy was very great. Subject(s): Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Storms THE WRECK OF THE 'THOMAS DRYDEN'; IN PENTLAND FIRTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood upon the sandy beach Last Line: And got lodgings for the night! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Ferry Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Tragedy; Dead, The; Ocean THE WRECK OF THE AIDEEN, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Is it cure me, docther, darlin'? An ould boy of siventy-four Last Line: Now it's growin' bright and warm agin, and aideen, aideen's here. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE WRECK OF THE BARQUE 'LYNTON' WHILE BOUND FOR ASPINWALL, HAVING ON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad tale of the sea, I will unfold Last Line: A day which the survivors will long remember. Subject(s): Disasters; Hurricanes; Shipwrecks; Survival; Weather THE WRECK OF THE BARQUE 'WM. PATERSON,' OF LIVERPOOL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye landsmen all attend my verse, and I'll tell to ye a tale Last Line: "and in particular for fetching the crew of the ""wm. Paterson"" safe to dundee" Subject(s): Disasters; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Waves; Ocean THE WRECK OF THE CIRCUS TRAIN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Couplings buckled, cracked, collapsed Last Line: Turned and swung off toward the hills Subject(s): Circus; Disasters; Railroad Wrecks; Train Wrecks THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou mastering me / god! Giver of breath and bread Last Line: Lord. Subject(s): Disasters; Nuns; Shipwrecks THE WRECK OF THE EMMELINE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This tack might fetch absecom bar Last Line: Stuck fast an' firm on the outer bar. Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks THE WRECK OF THE GREAT NORTHERN, by ROBERT HEDIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the great northern plunged in Last Line: The dry husks of corn. Subject(s): Disasters; Railroad Wrecks; Train Wrecks THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the schooner hesperus, / that sailed the wintry sea Last Line: On the reef of norman's woe! Subject(s): Disasters; Gloucester, Massachusetts; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER 'LONDON'; WHILE ON HER WAY TO AUSTRALIA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1866, and on a very beautiful day Last Line: And they thanked god and captain cavassa, who did their lives save. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Drowning; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Storms; Dead, The THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER 'STELLA', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month of march and in the year of 1899 Last Line: But I hope their souls are now in heaven in safe keep. Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Fog; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Haze THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER 'STORM QUEEN', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye landsmen, all pray list to me Last Line: So the brave hero sank with her beneath the waters wide. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE WRECK OF THE STEAMSHIP PUFFIN, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell you a story, children? Well, gather around my knee Last Line: Pond! Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F. Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC, OR THE WATERY GRAVE, SELECTION, by SOLOMON SMULEWITZ Poem Text First Line: There stand, in woe Last Line: The name of ida straus! Alternate Author Name(s): Small, Solomon Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Straus, Rosalie Ida (blun) (1849-1912); Titanic (ship) THE WRECK OF THE WHALER 'OSCAR', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 1st of april, and in the year of eighteen thirteen Last Line: Unsure. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Shipwrecks; Storms; Tragedy; Dead, The THE WRECK ON LOCH MCGARRY, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you should search all scotland round Last Line: May just help you to begin it. Subject(s): Accidents; Disasters; Epiphany; Ignorance; Lakes; Scotland; Shipwrecks; Soul; Virtue; Twelfth Night; Dullness; Stupdity; Pools; Ponds THE WRECK; A TALE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a calm summer evening. On the sea Last Line: Page [39] Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks THE WRECKER'S OATH ON BARNEGAT, by HENRY MORFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night mid swarthy forms I lay Last Line: And hurling out as dread an oath. Subject(s): Barnegat Bay, New Jersey; Disasters; Shipwrecks THREE STAGES, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a city undergoes diaster, it moves as a mass Subject(s): City & Town Life; Disasters TITANIC, by M. C. LEHR Poem Source First Line: Within the dungeon of the deep Last Line: In music of your euloogy Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) TITANIC BLUES, by HI HENRY BROWN Poem Source First Line: Early one morning : just about four o'clock Last Line: And the band all playing : nearer my god to thee Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) TITANIC TOAST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was sad indeed, it was sad in mind Last Line: He said, I left the big motherfucker sinkin' about thirty minutes ago Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) TITANIC'S KNELL: A SATIRE ON SPEED, SELS., by HENRY BRENNER Poem Source First Line: O cruel frenzy Last Line: Of such an empty name Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Speed; Titanic (ship) TO THE MEN OF 'WARRIORS' WARD', by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightly, amid my books, I stand and view Last Line: Will mend them when 'tis time. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Stillbirth; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Death - Childbirth TRAIN WRECK, 1890: MY GRANDMOTHER LIES DOWN WITH THE DEAD, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You come in to the past, dark, where the fires still burn Last Line: Never tell them who, in the black plunge of love, %you belong to again Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R. Subject(s): Disasters; Grandparents; Railroad Wrecks TRAINWRECKED SOLDIERS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, that is small respected of distinction Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Railroad Wrecks; Dead, The; Train Wrecks TRAINWRECKED SOLDIERS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, that is small respected of distinction Last Line: Crux in a savage tongue none of us know Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Railroad Wrecks TREMOR, by STEPHEN BURT Poem Source First Line: Amid the condensation, glass and gloam Last Line: Across the shaky rim of his earth-toned broom Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sat at the hut of the fisher Last Line: Swiftly the darkness fell. Subject(s): Disasters; Dusk; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Storms; Seamen; Sails TWO HUNDRED MEN AND EIGHTEEN KILLED, by JAMES HENRY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Remember well, good christians all, %not one whit worse the coal Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Disasters VISIONS: 2, by PETRARCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After, at sea a tall ship did appeare Last Line: So great riches, as like cannot be found Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Love - Loss Of; Shipwrecks; Storms WHEN THE WORLD BU'STS THROUGH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where's a boy a-goin' Last Line: "clean -- plum -- through!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Disasters; Earthquakes; Farm Life; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers WHITE ROSE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel great. Now Last Line: A shipwrecked coffin mews Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks WHO BADE THE WAVES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who bade the wavs, like horsemen of bornu, stop Last Line: All boiling with stone Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Seashore; Tides; Waves WICK, by JUDITH H. MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: We keep watch at dock edge, dusk Last Line: That flickers, and is gone Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Shipwrecks WITH THE BREAKDOWN SQUAD, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tanner down on a three spot, / losing again, he blowed!' Last Line: "business is doing well." Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Fire; News; Railroad Wrecks; Dead, The; Train Wrecks WRECK, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Although the preparation was so long Last Line: Would say to the very end refused rest Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD, by GORDON LIGHTFOOT Poem Source First Line: The legend lives on from the chippewa on down Last Line: When the gales of november come early! Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks WRECK OF THE HOWE, 1931; A BALLAD, by ALFRED HUTCHINSON Poem Source First Line: One night on the rocks off bear island Last Line: Just trusting to god in her mercy, %and thank him for that -amen! Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks WRECK OF THE OLD 97, by DAVID GRAVES GEORGE Poem Source First Line: On a cold frosty morning in the month of september Last Line: They may leave you and never return Subject(s): Disasters; Railroad Wrecks WRECK OF THE SCHOONER 'SAMUEL CRAWFORD.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of november Last Line: And to take the last look of their schooner in a blaze. Subject(s): Cold; Disasters; Hunger; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Snow; Survival; Wind WRECK OF THE SCOTCH EXPRESS, by C. C. MOTT Poem Source First Line: Thank'ee sir, kindly for calling: my cough's mending slowly but sure Subject(s): Disasters; Railroad Wrecks WRECK OF THE TITANIC, by REGINALD M. TEWKSBURY Poem Text First Line: Only an iceberg Last Line: Under moonlit sky! Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship) WRECKAGE, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Text First Line: Here by a churning surf, while breakers rave Last Line: No bridge spans taut across your storm of life. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks |
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