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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EXPLORERS Matches Found: 305 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1492, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou two-faced year, mother of change and fate Last Line: "grim bulwarked hatred between heart and heart!" Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers A POET'S PROPHECY, by LUIGI PULCI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Know that this theory is false; his bark Last Line: To glad the nations with expected light. Subject(s): Explorers; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America A THOUGHT OF COLUMBUS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mystery of mysteries, the crude and harried ceaseless flame Last Line: The modern world to thee and thought of thee!) Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers A TRIBUTE TO HENRY M. STANLEY; THE GREAT AFRICAN EXPLORER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of dundee Last Line: And play up, see the conquering hero comes! Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Explorers; Heroism; Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841-1904); Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Heroes; Heroines; Rowlands, John; Journeys; Trips ADMIRAL, HAIL!, by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD Poem Text First Line: Admiral, admiral Last Line: Freedom and peace is the end of your quest! Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails ADRIFT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Abandoned by wind, the squadron drifts, bereft Last Line: Until he becomes the blue eye of god Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers ADVENTURER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The old priest back from africa Last Line: The wild adventure of being alone Subject(s): Clergy; Explorers; Knowledge; Solitude AFTER SUNRISE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Whitecaps rise like blossoms on the waves Last Line: Trembling like the flame inside the sun Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers ALL NIGHT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Slaves to the vagaries of weather, displaced Last Line: Is the axis. Their beaks align with light Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers ALMOST ALL ABOUT EYES, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Nanny & ger have green eyes Last Line: White patent leather shoes to go %out to play? Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination AMBER IS FOR CAUTION, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: Eyes of pigeons shine as they fly Last Line: Fuel is low Subject(s): Civilization; Explorers; Roads; Travel AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus may have worked the wind Last Line: As cortez on the aztecs made Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus may have worked the wind Last Line: His can be no such easy raid %as cortez on the aztecs made Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers ANDES: 4-9 INCLUSIVE, by KERSTIN THOREK Poem Source First Line: The mountains rise higher than the castle of the condors Last Line: Gravely the two men turn around Subject(s): Explorers; Incas; Mountains; Peru; Travel ANGEL & THE BIRDS OF PARADOX, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Logic places barbed wire %around an angel Last Line: The closer she gets %the more I hear the birds of paradox Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination ANTARCTIC MUSE, by THOMAS PERRY Poem Source First Line: It is now my brave boys we are clear of the sea Last Line: Blessed be unto them so long as they shall live %and that is the wish to them I do give Subject(s): Antarctica; Explorers; Travel APRIL IN ANDALUSIA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: God lacks for nothing in andalusia -- rivers Last Line: The decoration, something that god will forgive Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers ARCHAEOLOGY, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Searching 'mid eastern ruins, groping slow Last Line: Rarest, most precious treasure trove, a sword! Subject(s): Archeology; Explorers; Treasures ARCTIC CHART: 1. THE PARRY ISLANDS, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Winter man, first of your kind Last Line: Living in awe; more humbled %by each new wonder Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Parry, William Edward (1790-1855) ARCTIC CHART: 2. FURY BEACH, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the breast of beaches, open to the gales Last Line: Wrecked on a lucky day Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers ARCTIC CHART: 3. KANE BASIN, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dead man running round the world, chasing Last Line: Live half as much, dead man, as you did Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers ARCTIC CHART: 4. BELLOT STRAIT, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little bellot %they called you Last Line: The smallest strait %in the arctic Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers ARCTIC CHART: 5. M'CLINTOCK CHANNEL, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It grinds down from the beaufort sea, slow Last Line: Man of few words, every one exact Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers ARCTIC CHART: 6. LADY FRANKLIN BAY, by SHEENAGH PUGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It lies in the north, lady Last Line: So much as your name Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers AT ANCHOR, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: And still the hills of hierro, and still the moon Last Line: Painted into angels burns behind their eyes Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers AT GRAN CANARIA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He believes in the burden of his name Last Line: Lifting a skirt to let the light seep through Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers AT THE GATE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Words spat from the traveller's mouth Last Line: He's an east wind chilling the island. Subject(s): Explorers ATLANTIC CITY, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: They arrive by bus. %the retired couple from bethesda Last Line: Underneath the magnetic peanut shell Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination BALBOA, by NORA PERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With restless step of discontent Last Line: Divinely guided, reached the goal. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Balboa, Vasco Nunez De (1475-1519); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers BALLAD OF CORONADO'S QUEST, by JESSIE WILMORE MURTON Poem Source First Line: The dawn was on the mountains Subject(s): Coronado, Francisco Vasquez De (1510-54); Explorers BEAST, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: When the beast wakes up %it'll know exactly where to go Last Line: Who lifted my dreaming muse %from its moonlit casket Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination BEAUTIFUL GHOST, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: I drive to the museum %just to see the vermeers Last Line: Feels just like being kissed %by a beautiful ghost! Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination BECALMED, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He scans the rich green valley, hills rounded Last Line: Riding the perfect breath that pumps the sea Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BEFORE SUNRISE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Iam lucis orto sidere Last Line: The trinity his ships cut on the waves Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BERMUDAS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Where the remote bermudas ride Last Line: With falling oars they kept the time. Variant Title(s): The Emigrants In Bermudas;in Exile;song Of The Emigrants In Bermudas Subject(s): Bermuda; Exiles; Explorers; Fantasy; God; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology; Seamen; Sails; Ocean BIRDS AND COLUMBUS, by ANN STANFORD Poem Source First Line: It was the birds that did it Last Line: But here, a crown of islands, %a world for taking Subject(s): Birds; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BLACK HORSES, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Black horses clump together %near the faded oak fence Last Line: Their deep black manes %twitch in the wind's icy fingers Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination BLUE MARROW, by LOUISE BERNICE HALFE Poem Source First Line: Grandmothers hold me. I must pass all that I possess, every Last Line: Of our struggling hearts? Subject(s): Explorers; Hunting; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Wars; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) BODIES OF LIGHTNING, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: When one stands in the Last Line: & the stirring of bodies %made of lightning Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination BRANCH OF FIRE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: This is the anarchy of stars, prophesied Last Line: And make of this a miracle, a sign Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BREAKING DOWN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Monday is all perturbation. The pinta's Last Line: They turn like gulls into the blackening sky Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BREEZES, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He breathes the elegant air, studies the clouds Last Line: But the body of the air is beatriz Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BRIDGE: 1. AVE MARIA, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be with me, luis de san angel, now Last Line: Te deum laudamus %o thou hand of fire Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Imagination; Vision CARTIER ARRIVES AT STADACONA, by WILLIAM TALBOT ALLISON Poem Source First Line: At stadacona half the sky Subject(s): Cartier, Jacques (1491-1557); Explorers CARTIER: DAUNTLESS DISCOVERER, by JOHN DANIEL LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Hail, master mariner of sainte malo! Subject(s): Cartier, Jacques (1491-1557); Explorers CATARACT MOON, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: You have about as much chance as Last Line: A swollen ear...Lanced by the rays of a %cataract moon Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination CHILDREN OF CORONADO, by MILDRED CRABTREE SPEER Poem Text First Line: The seven cities of cibola rise Last Line: They, too, shall die of thirst along the plains! Subject(s): Cibola (mythical City); Coronado, Francisco Vasquez De (1510-54); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers CHRISTOFORO COLUMBO CLAIMS AMERICA, 1492, by ARMAND GARNET RUFFO Poem Source First Line: Those who made the jounrey believed Last Line: Explorers will have come %and gone. America will have been claimed Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; John Paul Ii, Pope; U.s. - History CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a man, that, from some lofty steep Last Line: Her soul in wo, -- like rachel, weeps. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by ROSEMARY CARR BENET Poem Source First Line: There are lots of queer things that discoverers do Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by ANTONIO GAZZOLETTI Poem Source First Line: Forlorn, alone and old - I die. Alas! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by EDWARD R. HUXLEY Poem Source First Line: Four hundred years have glided by Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There was a great captain with mary in his sails Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With faith unshadowed by the night Last Line: New lands for conquering love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Christopher columbus, where would I be Last Line: I'm glad you were so brave and true / christopher columbus Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers CIPANGO, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The horizon cuts its oar into the sky Last Line: The moon is his mistress. He watches her rise Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CLOUDLAND, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child, I wanted to explore Last Line: Better hell than heaven's shadow! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Children; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Conquistadors; Explorers; Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521); Childhood; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBIA'S BANNER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God helping me,' cried columbus, 'though fair or foul the breeze Last Line: God bless you, youths and maidens, as you guard the stripes and stars! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holidays; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America COLUMBIAN ODE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four hundred years ago a tangled waste Last Line: Now flutters in the breeze the stars and stripes! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America COLUMBUS, by JOAQUIN CASTELLANOS Poem Source First Line: He strove against the winds and waves of fate Last Line: The mystical america of heaven! Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailors And Sailing; Travel COLUMBUS, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Viceroy they made him, admiral and don Last Line: Found justice, truth, and human liberty! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by EDWARD COLLINS DOWNING Poem Text First Line: The vision he foresaw Last Line: And monument. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the white paper! Last Line: Where god might write anew the story of the world. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cordage creaks and rattles in the wind Last Line: Is more than time enough to find a world. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courage; Explorers; Valor; Bravery; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus, wearing a night-gown made from a treasure map Last Line: At sea the waves trudge off in search of a new continent Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind him lay the gray [or, great] azores Last Line: "its grandest lesson: ""on! Sail on!" Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Variant Title(s): The Port Of Ships;a Tribute To Columbus Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Patriotism; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean COLUMBUS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time there was an italian Subject(s): Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957); Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holidays; Vespucci, Amerigo (1451-1512); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time there was an italian Last Line: Because it has a very important moral, which is don't be a discoverer, be a promoter Subject(s): Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957); Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holidays; Vespucci, Amerigo (1451-1512) COLUMBUS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Steer on, courageous sailor! Through mockery and jeering Last Line: What the one promises, the other still surely attain. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis read of one, a ferryman of old Last Line: Fulfilling all his destiny again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chains, my good lord! In your raised [or, good] brows I read Last Line: I am but an alien and a genovese. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Columbus Day Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: An italian boy that liked to play Last Line: And the wisest know he was more than wise. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS AND THE MAYFLOWER, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O little fleet! That on thy quest divine Last Line: As in the straitness of the ancient ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Mayflower (ship); United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS AT SEVILLE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear son, diego, I am old and deaf Last Line: The date, 1571 Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courts & Courtiers; Death; Explorers; Spain; Dead, The; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS AT THE CONVENT [JULY, 1491], by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dreary and brown the night comes down Last Line: And gratitude are due! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS DYING [MAY 20, 1506], by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Do I hear again the roar Last Line: Into thy hands I give my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS IN CHAINS [AUGUST, 1500], by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are these the honors they reserve for me Last Line: Which, but for me, had still been empty visions. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS THE WORLD-GIVER, by MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who doubts has met defeat ere blows can fall Last Line: Is one clear trumpet call to faith and will. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS [AUGUST 3, 1492], by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Steer, bold mariner, on! Albeit witlings deride thee Last Line: What is promised by one, surely the other performs. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS [CROSSING THE ATLANTIC], by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How in god's [or, heaven's] name did columbus get over Last Line: Is a pure wonder, I must say, to me. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courage; Explorers; Valor; Bravery; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS [JANUARY, 1487], by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Stephen's cloistered hall was proud Last Line: All glorious, -- yet forlorn. Variant Title(s): Columbus (january, 1487) Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, THE DISCOVERER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a caravel of spanish make Last Line: Columbus, calm, his prescience verified. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips COLUMBUS: STANZAS 1-4, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night air brings strange whisperings - vague scents Last Line: Thy deep te deum sounded on the strand. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS; 1492-1892, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Westward columbus steered, while, day by day Last Line: His first te deum at san salvador. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America COMPASS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Tonight the compass turns, all lozenges Last Line: To music -- outside thought, outside time Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CONCERNING THE RIGHT TO LIFE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I rounded the corner - noiselessly - as if wide unseeable Variant Title(s): The Right To Life Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Shoah; Judaism; Virgin Mary CONCERNING THE RIGHT TO LIFE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I rounded the corner - noiselessly - as if wide unseeable Last Line: Rather the day is hot and the nights temperate %as in may in spain in andalusia Variant Title(s): The Right To Lif Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women - Bible CONFERENCE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Twenty papers have been read Last Line: The mathematics of her neck? Subject(s): Conventions; Explorers; Love Affairs CONTRARY WIND, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: They've had too much of ease, too much os scudding Last Line: Of noblemen. He covets the trophy of stars Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CROSSING THE WALT WHITMAN BRIDGE, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: They have named a bridge after walt Last Line: Between the shores of my solitude Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination CROWD OF MAPLE TREES, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source Last Line: That rinse their backbones %in the cold blue air Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination CUATRO-CENTENNIAL, by ROLF SOMMER NIELSEN Poem Text First Line: Coronado, this land was old Last Line: And dry and rot and go to dust. Subject(s): Coronado, Francisco Vasquez De (1510-54); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers CUBAN DREAM, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: My shadow carries a sponge %down the beach Last Line: A humid wind washes us to our bones Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination DANIEL BOONE'S LAST LOOK WESTWARD, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm only four-score years, my sons, and a few Last Line: Before they hew that northwest into the world. Subject(s): Boone, Daniel (1734-1820); Explorers; Northwest, Pacific; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers DARWIN'S SCOPE, by DOROTHY MOSELEY SUTTON Poem Source First Line: To get it right he had to become an actor Last Line: Back to england - the bones of his dead faith Subject(s): Archeology; Explorers DEATH OF THE POLAR EXPLORERS, by GABRIEL GBADAMOSI Poem Source First Line: They made their grim, sad faces and went out Last Line: On finding death incomprehensible Subject(s): Cold; Explorers DISCOVERERS, by LISA GORTON Poem Source First Line: But can say - Last Line: But no closer to what we came for Subject(s): Explorers DISCOVERING THE CONTINENTS ON YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S ANTIQUES, by THERESA W. MILLER Poem Source First Line: O great explorer, where do you sail? Last Line: North america, south america, europe, africa, and asia; %don't forget australia, don't forget antarc Subject(s): Continents; Explorers DISCOVERY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I traveled the road of the restless Last Line: And the god of love were one. Subject(s): Explorers; Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Journeys; Trips DISCOVERY, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the urban sky the slow bass sound Last Line: Once violence was real Subject(s): Explorers; Hotels; Travel; United States DONA BEATRIZ, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The hand that greets his is gloved in fawn Last Line: He has left in her pillow will smell of waves Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers DOUBLE RECKONING, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Truth is a wall. He builds in it a window Last Line: They could remember the light of the farthest stars Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers DREAM TYGER, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Today is a day for the dream tyger Last Line: & into the darkness of a wristwatch %the tyger descends Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination EARTH MUSIC, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: I constantly listen to music. Come to Last Line: Earth music. Do you hear it? Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination EXPERIMENT, by ANDREW FRISARDI Poem Source First Line: What a cruel game we played Last Line: Little leonardos looking on %with eyes as cold as the moon Subject(s): Cruelty; Explorers; Science EXPLORER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no sense in going further - it's the edge of cultivation Subject(s): Explorers EXTRACTS FROM THE LOST-LOG BOOK OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by GERRY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: We set out from the bar of saltes Last Line: More weed Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers FALSE LANDFALL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The rigging is full of sailors, ladders lost Last Line: Dark and rugged and windswept, holding on Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers FATHER, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The father's entire body %is heavy tonight. This father, like all other fathers Last Line: Don't remember getting lost Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination FEW MINUTES AGO I SPOKE TO THE MAN IN THE TALL GRASS, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The man in the tall grass %said he didn't want to live Last Line: Of just one wasp %resembles the voice %of his lover Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination FIRST ACROSS THE SANDS, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY Poem Text First Line: Juan bautista de anza Last Line: And stands in california. Subject(s): Anza, Juan Bautista De (1736-1788); California; Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did the ocean's waste supply / to soothe the mind or please the eye? Last Line: In royal isabella's name. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers FIXING THE RUDDER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Fresh-hewn timber, how these boards arch Last Line: Nothing. And when it falls, it turns the world Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers FLIGHT (2), by HAROLD VINAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are immortal, voyagers like these Last Line: Lindbergh, an eagle sweeping through the night Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Explorers; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974) FLIGHT OF BIRDS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: In nature there is always the exception Last Line: Destiny, the roseate stain of wings Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers FLIGHTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: English herons brought for sport to a new land Last Line: For worlds of outer space? Subject(s): Explorers; Herons; Seashore; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Beach; Coast; Shore FLOATING MISTRESS, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Far from philosophies, %I travel with my mistress, imagination Last Line: I am as far away %as a needle %leaving its first stitch Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination FLYING FISH, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Gunshot, a flock of fish spills up from the sea Last Line: Than any ship, more plentiful and higher Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers FOR THE NEW YEAR 1791, by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from the bosom of the mine Last Line: Unbought by scenes of woe, and undefil'd with blood. Subject(s): Explorers; French Revolution (1789); Holidays; New Year; Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Seashore; Trade; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Beach; Coast; Shore FRIGATE BIRD, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: How does a bird explain the sorrow of Last Line: As blameless as a sould without belief Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers GARDEN SLUG ON A YELLOW SQUASH, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: I reach through flat leaves %& prickly stalks to capture a pale yellow Last Line: Mound of grass behind my busy reisterstown garden! Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination GHOSTS OF THE NEW WORLD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no ghosts, you say Last Line: Calls to the slumbering host. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Death; Dreams; Earth; Explorers; Ghosts; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers GIRL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: A girl is watching. The men in boots come Last Line: Becomes less salty. All of her tears are returned Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers GOALS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the horrors of the north Last Line: And seeks the common good of man. Subject(s): Explorers; North Pole; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers GOMERA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: In caves, deep in the breathing mountain's side Last Line: In birdsong -- come home! Come home Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers GRANDDAD, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Granddad pinches a stalk %off his tomato plant Last Line: Of indiana sun %from his forehead Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination GRASSHOPPER & THE MOWER, OR, THE MOWER'S SONG, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Wet cinnamon body... %dark banded thighs Last Line: From their open september windows Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination GREAT FLOOD OF '93, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: I woke up in platte city, missouri this Last Line: With stories of the really great flood, the one %that is yet to come Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination GRIEF, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Grief. I absorb it %like a sponge Last Line: A sound that almost resembles birth Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination GUANAHANI, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: White laurel. White parrots. The lanterns Last Line: They paint their faces red. They will bathe in dust Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers HAKLUYT UNPURCHASED, by FRANKLIN MCDUFFEE Poem Source First Line: Man is a fool and a bag of wind! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Explorers HAVING BREAKFAST WITH A MOCKINGBIRD NEAR KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: A few minutes ago, while having breakfast Last Line: Each other... Each holding breakfast as our eyes %glistened Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination HERITAGE, by MAY BRYANT FULLAM Poem Text First Line: Our birdman loved his ship Last Line: To take his place with friends and kin e'en as he did on earth. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Courage; Explorers; Heritage; Heredity; Valor; Bravery; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers HIGH SEAS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: And the sea rose and the sky became a wall Last Line: Stands firm, his legs apart. He is the wave Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers 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) IF I LIE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If I lie with the demon now Last Line: I rise and follow the slave abroad Subject(s): Devil; Explorers; Slavery; Temptation IMAGINING THE INDIES, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: All things in the indies overflow Last Line: And all the dust that sifts through stones is gold Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers IMMORTAL MORN, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers IN 1841 WASHOE CHILDREN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1844, explorers john fremont and kit carson discovered lake tahoe Last Line: Found what was not lost Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains; Explorers; Native Americans IN 1947 A SINGLE GOLD NUGGET WAS FOUND, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In between life has passed Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Explorers; Gold; Nature; Time IN COLUMBUS' TIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Suppose you lived then, do you think Last Line: "laughed in his face and said, ""pooh, pooh""?" Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers IN THE WHITENESS, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: In the whiteness of snow %death comes Last Line: Strolling arm in arm, %would soon become a couplet Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination ISABEL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Our columbus, wise and brave Last Line: All honor to queen isabel! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sea Voyages; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ISABELA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Dusk balances upon the mountain Last Line: The fruit. %their kisses withered in the sun Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers JACQUES CARTIER, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the seaport of saint malo 'twas a smiling morn Subject(s): Cartier, Jacques (1491-1557); Explorers JUST NORTH OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: A large, white breasted hawk %on a stubble fence post Last Line: Grasp at a sudden %dark movement %inside a poem Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination KANE, by FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aloft upon an old basaltic crag Last Line: By the good christian knight, elisha kane! Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Arctic; Explorers; Kane, Elisha Kent (1820-1857); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers KILL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He thinks that he despises violence: war Last Line: The sea is a fresh grave covered with bouquets Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers KIMONO-MAKER CONTEMPLATES ICE, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: One dawn ice appears Last Line: Summer kimono %he knows Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Ice; Winter KNOWLEDGE, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They were islanders, our fathers were Last Line: Who are brave and true. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Canada; Explorers; Canadians; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers LABORS, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: With foremost authority assume Last Line: A bearing. Affix Subject(s): Explorers; Immigrants; Korea; Labor And Laborers; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LANDFALL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Flotsam of branches; flotsam of wildest rose Last Line: The sands are rolling; the waves raping the land Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Landfall LANDFALL IN THE UNKNOWN SEAS, by ALLEN CURNOW Poem Source First Line: Simply by sailing in a new direction Last Line: The stain of blood that writes an island story Subject(s): Explorers; New Zealand; Tasman, Abel (1603-1659) LEARNING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Love sniffs and claws like a young rat Last Line: And the instructive mud. Subject(s): Bodies; Explorers; Love; Women LEGENDARY PROGRESS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, in the darkness of his dream Last Line: The beast is raging in its time Subject(s): Change; Explorers; Progress; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers LIGHT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He cannot trust his senses: light is uncertain Last Line: Round as the back of a turtle and as strong Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers LIGHT NOT FED BY LIGHT, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Scent of flowering buckwheat Last Line: Splits the mirror with a diamond can sleep soundly Subject(s): Archeology; Explorers LITTLE POEM ABOUT DARKNESS &A DRIVER, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Darkness everywhere, %in his voice, %in his eyes Last Line: For just a single moment %the road is infinite Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination LOUIS ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE, WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE GLOBE (1766-, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source Last Line: At docks? Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Boats; Explorers; Navigation; Sea Voyages; Travel MAKE WAY FOR DANIEL BOONE, by CHARLES POTTS Poem Source First Line: Is there anyone left unaware Last Line: Some place to sulk as lewis and clark %bypass my heart on their way west Subject(s): Explorers; Ranch Life MARCO POLO, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was heroic, fugitive, in love with the machinery Last Line: Devoured by the oriental machinery of the silkworm Subject(s): Explorers; Insects; Money; Polo, Marco (1254-1324); Sea; Skeletons; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Bugs; Ocean MEMORIES, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: All that can be said %is that the memories fly Last Line: As though they were pages %turning below my skin Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination METAPHYSICAL ANGELS, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The metaphysical angels %rise from steam Last Line: I grow the fish-shaped hands %of an angel! Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination 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 MON-DA-MIN; OR, THE ROMANCE OF MAIZE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ere the shores of green america Last Line: From whose abundance all the world may feed. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Explorers; Legends; Dead, The; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers MORNING, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: All things are opening to him, and none Last Line: Rainspout, whirlpool, total eclipse of sun Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers MOTHER & CHILD, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: In a far off room %I hear my mother reading stories Last Line: Imagination flickers %across the dark eyes %of three generations Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination MOUTHS OF THE ORINOCO, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: From prisoning towers of rock, for miles on miles Last Line: Holding within thine hand-grasp fifty reins! Subject(s): Explorers; Islands; Seashore MUTINY, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Exhausted from the constant flex of courage Last Line: And ungrateful, into the promised land Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers NON-VERBS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Jumping, running, boating Last Line: Uncorking, signalling by semaphore Subject(s): Camping; Explorers; Travel NOTHING IS TAKEN THAT IS NOT GIVEN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rap beat of arrested development flared through the red Last Line: Nothing was taken that was not given Subject(s): Anthropology; Ethnic Identity; Explorers; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Reservations; Tourists; Travel OCELOT SONATA, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Large rain drops %spot the foggy windshield Last Line: Of several thousand %wet & lonely cars Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination ODE TO CAPTAIN PARRY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parry, my man! Has thy brave leg Last Line: And tempt the fates no more! Subject(s): Explorers; North Pole; Parry, William Edward (1790-1855); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ON A FOGGY MORNING, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The two white bands %on the mockingbird's outstretched wings Last Line: With the magnesium light %of a new savior Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination ON DISCOVERING THE IMPORTANCE OF A GARDEN SEAT, by KJELL HJERN Poem Source First Line: The lily pond lay sleeping amid the dark cavernous shubbery Last Line: Play a significant role in my community Subject(s): Explorers; Vision ON EXPLORATION, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hawk drops to the treetop Subject(s): Explorers; Poetry & Poets; Universe; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ON THE DISCOVERIES OF CAPTAIN LEWIS [JANUARY 14, 1807], by JOEL BARLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the nile cloak his head in the clouds and defy Last Line: Who taught him his path to the sea. Subject(s): Clark, William (1770-1838); Explorers; Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809); West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ONE STEP BEYOND, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: You take me past common sense. Under Last Line: Know why & that's the fire Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination ORIENT TO OCCIDENT, 1906, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You thought me sunk in lethargy, too deeply drugged with sleep Last Line: For you the ship's machinery, for me the guiding helm! Subject(s): Asia; Explorers; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology PALM BEACH, by MARY LEIGHTON Poem Text First Line: As, seeking broader lands to gain Last Line: From coral reef to blossom grown. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America PALOS, SPAIN, 1492, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What a stir in the harbor! Last Line: Columbus -- had found a world! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PARROT TREES, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The road is chilly %an october breeze Last Line: Of at least %one thousand parrot trees Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination PEGASUS, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Solitude with infinite waist Last Line: & supple waist %of our unsuspecting infinite! Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination PERSPECTIVE, by LOUISE MOSS MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: So many things to learn and see Last Line: The answer can be only -- god! Subject(s): Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PHILADELPHIA, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Working one spring afternoon %in mid-town philadelphia Last Line: The open mouth %of my tired room Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination POLAR EXPLORER, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: All the huskies are eaten. There is no space Subject(s): Explorers; Arctic; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PRAYER OF COLUMBUS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A batter'd, wreck'd old man Last Line: And anthems in new tongues I hear saluting me. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Religion; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology PROEM: TO WATER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: All things in the end return to water Last Line: Will be released. Whatever is done, undone Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 1, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt this and dawn, three hours my soul will smite Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 1, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt this and and dawn, three hours my soul will smite Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 2, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dawn? My dawn? How if it never break? Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 2, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dawn? My dawn? How if it never break? Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 3, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or, haply, how if this contrarious west Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 3, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or, haply, how if this contrarious west Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 4, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now speaks mine other heart with cheerier seeming Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 4, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now speaks mine other heart with cheerier seeming Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 5, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere we gomera cleared, a coward cried Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 5, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere we gomera cleared, a coward cried Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 6, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next drive we o'er the slimy weeded sea Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 6, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next drive we o'er the slimy weeded sea Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 7, by SIDNEY LANIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus stands in the night alone Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 7, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus stands in the night alone Last Line: God, east--mine, west: good friends, %behold my land Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers PYTHEAS, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gaul whose keel in far, dim ages ploughed wan widths of polar sea Last Line: Where he fell asleep for ever, twenty centuries ago. Subject(s): Explorers; Pytheas (300 B.c.); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers QUIVIRA, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Francisco coronado rode forth with all his train Last Line: The city of quivira whose streets are paved with gold. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Coronado, Francisco Vasquez De (1510-54); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers RAIN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Most of his life is gone, spent far from land Last Line: Emerged: head first and dreaming, like a seed Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers REDISCOVERY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more I go over your earthly body Last Line: Waiting a marriage of heaven and hell in the bed of this world Subject(s): Beauty; Explorers; Sex; Women; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers REPUBLIC AND MOTHERLAND, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the vast harbor with the morning sun Last Line: Thy mayflower crossed the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Explorers; Nations; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean REPUBLIC OF LONGING, by SIGMAN BYRD Poem Source First Line: Think of it as a separate country Last Line: Go home while you still can Subject(s): Explorers; Travel RERIGGING THE NINA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Like the gulls that play the wind at sagres Last Line: Of a world, half hidden, half revealed Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers RILKE SKY, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: There are three layers of dusk Last Line: The angels are violins %for one hour Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: VITZLIPUTZLI, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On his head he wore the laurel Last Line: "my beloved mexico!" Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Mexico; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SA-CA-GA-WE-A; THE INDIAN GIRL WHO GUIDED LEWIS AND CLARK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sho-sho-ne sa-ca-ga-we-a - captive and wife was she Last Line: "sho-sho-ne sa-ca-ga-we-a, who led the way to the west!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Clark, William (1770-1838); Explorers; History; Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809); Native Americans; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SARGASSO SEA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: They sail upon the copse of weed, a shallow Last Line: Even the longest voyage ends too soon Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers SARGASSO WEATHER, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: It's april %I'm reminded of eliot Last Line: As I sway in the infinite hammock Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination SEA MARVELS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning more mysterious seems the sea Last Line: In the inglorious grapple after gold! Subject(s): Explorers; Sea; Sea Voyages; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean SEARCHER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He searched at home. Nothing doing Last Line: A hint of light sets the cock a - crowing Subject(s): Explorers SEPTEMBER MORNING IN MOUNT AIRY, MARYLAND, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: With a gust %the strong web %shakes its red peach leaves Last Line: One thin radio tower %sparks above the pines Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination SHACKLETON, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two faces of the same coin: poet and explorer. This Last Line: Destined to go down, a bride of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Explorers; Funerals - At Sea; Sea Voyages; Shackleton, Sir Ernest (1874-1922); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Burials At Sea SIDEWINDER'S ADAGIO, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The distance %between %rhetoric & the bumble bee's heavy body Last Line: The distance %inside melancholy %is immeasurable Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination SIERRA KID, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I passed slimgullion, morgan mine, Subject(s): Explorers; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SIMPLY HUGE, by CAROL J. PIERMAN Poem Source First Line: Though they remain in the uterus Last Line: A syringe stands stud in the dells Subject(s): Birth; Calves; Explorers; Reproduction; Science SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, whither sail you, sir john franklin? Last Line: We passed the northern sea! Variant Title(s): A Ballad Of Sir John Franklin Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Franklin, Sir John (1786-1847); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SIR JOHN FRANKLIN; ON THE CENTOTAPH IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not here! The white north has thy bones Last Line: Toward no earthly pole. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Franklin, Sir John (1786-1847); Westminster Abbey; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SNUFF, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A delicate pinch! Oh how it tingles up Last Line: And jokes that must be laugh'd at shall proceed. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Noses; Pleasure; Snuff (tobacco); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SOME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She's determined to explore Last Line: Some of the shit on the surface. Subject(s): Explorers; Memory SOME JANUARY THOUGHTS OF JUAN RAMON, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: I love the rain %washed clean Last Line: Like men %we sink %to our watery depths Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination SONG FOR COLUMBUS DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I took my three little trusty boats Last Line: The niña, and santa marie. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SONG OF COLUMBUS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Columbus was a brave man Last Line: Or sail-boats three! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SOUTH MIAMI BEACH, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The green humidity %strolls down aia Last Line: Seated next to him %& casually offers her a blue drink Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination SOUTHWARD SIDONIAN HANNO, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Explorers; Hanno (5th Century B.c.); Sea SPEARFISH CANYON, by CORIE DAVIS HENTON Poem Text First Line: My camp fire smoke wreathes in and out the trees Last Line: And rest, by nature soothed, carefree, content. Subject(s): Camping; Canyons; Explorers; Camps; Summer Camps; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers STAVE CHURCHES, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: I believe in the darkened churches Last Line: All the days are evil, there's no hope anymore, but we %sail on, sail on. %laudate pueri dominum, la Subject(s): America - Exploration; Andalusia, Spain; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailors And Sailing; Ships And Shipping STONE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Idleness has made a boy a killer Last Line: Fish feed on bread and the ashes of the heart Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers STRAITS OF MAGELLAN, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: In ocean's perilous night, without a clue Last Line: The land keeps opening slowly, more and more Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Explorers; Magellan, Ferdinand (1480-1521); Sailors And Sailing; Sea STRANGER EYES, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: A stranger walks over to me Last Line: I wonder what she eats for breakfast Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination SUNRISE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Another sunrise, a month and a week of fading Last Line: Is not a point to be imagined, but found Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers SURFACES AND MASKS; 4, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He gave the fascisti salute Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Fascism & Fascists; Italy; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Italians TERN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: His ship is a dark city. No bird wavers Last Line: Landlessness, the same elusive bird Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers THANKSGIVING, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The men have grown impatient, unhappy Last Line: The deep and teeming stillness they obey Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers THE BOY COLUMBUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "''tis a wonderful story,' I hear you say" Last Line: Will discover his new world surely Subject(s): "columbus, Christopher (1451-1506);explorers;" Exploring;discovery;discoverers THE BOY COLUMBUS, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And he had mused on lands each bird Last Line: In eyes far-seeing to discover. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE BRIDGE: 1. AVE MARIA, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be with me, luis de san angel, now Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Imagination; Vision; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Fancy THE COLUMBUS PARADE, 1893, by STARR HOYT NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Huge warships of all nations side by side Last Line: The fragile oak of christopher's caravel. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; New York City - 19th Century; Parades; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE DISCOVERER, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christopher columbus / runs through the grass Last Line: Whiter than white. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE DISCOVERER OF THE NORTH CAPE; FROM KING ALFRED'S OROSIUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Othere, the old sea captain, / who dwelt in helgoland Last Line: "behold this walrus-tooth!" Subject(s): Alfred, King Of Saxons (871-901); Explorers; Norway; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean THE DISCOVERY; SONNET, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an indian, who had known no change Last Line: Or silks or gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holidays; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE EXCURSION: OR: O COLUMBUS!, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning is the morning when mrs. Murphy's treasure chest opens Last Line: And the seas fill up with the sharks of auld lang syne Subject(s): Explorers; Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Journeys; Trips THE EXPLORATION OF OLIVER, by DOROTHY E. REID Poem Text First Line: Something was in the air -- he didn't know Last Line: Hailing the hero home, hailing the viking. Subject(s): Explorers; Vikings; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE EXPLORER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little billy wilson ran Last Line: Said little billy wilson. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Explorers; Childhood; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE EXPLORER, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: He who holds fast to one enduring dream Last Line: All bears the mighty signature of god. Subject(s): Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE FATE OF EXPLORERS (A FRAGMENT), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Set your face toward the darkness - tell of deserts weird and wide Last Line: "here a friend, a brother, laid them; here the wild men came to weep." Subject(s): Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE FROZEN GRAIL (TO PEARY AND HIS MEN), by ELSA BARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why sing the legends of the holy grail Last Line: And lift his warm lips to the frozen grail. Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Peary, Robert Edwin (1856-1920); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE GRAVE OF COLUMBUS, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence, solemn, awful, deep Last Line: "though his cered corpse lies here, with god his spirit dwells!" Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Graves; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Tombs; Tombstones THE GREAT EXPLORER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sailed o'er the weltery watery Last Line: Of the kinkable cannibal isles. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Explorers; Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE HEAD ON THE TABLE, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The enormous head of a bison Last Line: Of swamp water and peat. Subject(s): Explorers; Museums; Stones; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Art Gallerys; Granite; Rocks THE MOON IS UP, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is up: the stars are bright Last Line: Beyond the spanish main. Subject(s): Explorers; Sea Voyages; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE NEW WORLD'S QUEEN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swift to the queen, saint angel came Last Line: Dowered isabella — the new world's queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courts & Courtiers; Explorers; Spain; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE PAUSE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have walked past my widest range Subject(s): Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE POLAR QUEST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unconquerably, men venture on the quest Last Line: To find the mystic floodway of the north. Subject(s): Explorers; North Pole; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean THE RENEWAL OF YOUTH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, could the soul, from all earth's loves set free Last Line: Save the child's heart and trust as of the child. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Art & Artists; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Faith; Grief; Immortality; Music & Musicians; Teneriffe, Canary Islands; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness THE RISING GLORY OF AMERICA, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now shall the adventurous muse attempt a theme Last Line: And future years of bliss alone remain. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Native Americans; Science; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Scientists; America THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 12, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: So bearing far along that pleasant shore Last Line: Or what new quest might to their lord be shown. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Explorers; Sea Voyages; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE SPRIG OF MOSS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lived in munich a poor, weakly youth Last Line: And be your only comforter in all your lonely hours. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Explorers; Moss; Stones; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Granite; Rocks THE THANKSGIVING FOR AMERICA, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas night upon the darro Last Line: The happy nightingales. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE THREE LITTLE SHIPS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: There, are great big ships and they / ride all day Last Line: The pinta, the niña, the santa marie. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Ships & Shipping; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE VISIT OF THE FLEET, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: In a long majestic line against the sky Last Line: Till the dove of peace shall reign on every shore. Subject(s): Balboa, Vasco Nunez De (1475-1519); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Could I but be / perpetuallie Last Line: Another voyage make to hell. Subject(s): Explorers; God; Hell; Self; Temptation; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE VOYAGE OF VERRAZANO (1524), by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Verrazano, verrazano, child of arno's golden vale Last Line: O'er the chartless seas of silence from a fellow voyager, hail! Variant Title(s): Verrazano In New York Harbour Subject(s): Explorers; New York Harbor; Ships & Shipping; Verranzano, Giovanni Da (1485-1528); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THERE GO THE SHIPS OF HEAVEN, by ALICE A. FLAGG Poem Text First Line: When christopher columbus Last Line: Make difficulties old. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Faith; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Belief; Creed THOSE WHO COME AFTER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will never say of us: / what wonderful myths they had Last Line: Endlessly nibbled and gnawed Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Explorers; Greece; Mythology; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Greeks THREE-LEGGED HORSE, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: All day long I've been going %in fits & starts Last Line: Where's my three-legged horse? Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination THROUGH RIVERS OF BLOOD, by SARA ADLER ROSALSKY Poem Text First Line: Earthlings will yet do noble things Last Line: They will achieve fraternity! Subject(s): Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers TO A NEST OF YOUNG THRUSHES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little birds, you're ready now to fly Last Line: From day to day. Subject(s): Birds; Explorers; Nature; Solitude; Youth; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Loneliness TO CHELSEA: ON HER SECOND BIRTHDAY, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: My little lightning bug, %my ornery peaches &cream Last Line: Now that your tiny green flame burns every second %of every day Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination TO CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by CLARENCE L. HAYNIE Poem Text First Line: Forsaking drab genoa's winding streets Last Line: Beside the knowledge that the earth was round! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers TO CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by JUSTO SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Columbus, if my weak and powerless lay Last Line: Of thy bright apotheosis shall make! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailors And Sailing TO JOSIAH ROYCE, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Seaward he set his course, nor hugg'd the / shore Last Line: And find the pole-star of your loyalty! Subject(s): Explorers; Royce, Josiah (1855-1916); Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips TO THE CANARIES, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: It is always spring in the canaries Last Line: Seem to become, at dusk, the hilt of a sword Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers TO THE CONQUERORS OF THE AIR, by WILNA WIGGINTON Poem Text First Line: I am the great adventurer-the geni of all romance Last Line: I climb or fall ten thousand feet into the arms of god. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Explorers; Storms; Thunder; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers TO THE MISSISSIPPI, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They came from fierce, burnt spain to seek for gold Last Line: Of hot, long listlessness and moody course. Subject(s): Death; Explorers; Gold; Mississippi; Dead, The; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers TOKEN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Breakfast is a salty biscuit, a piece Last Line: In harmony, breathing the same stale air Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers TRAIL OF TEARS, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Who can imagine this prejudice with hands Last Line: Adolescent lips of the cherokee girl kneeling today %at mass Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination TRAIN TRAVEL, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Early morning rises off the fields Last Line: Where in the end are the worlds we leave behind Subject(s): Commuters; Explorers; Railroads; Travel TRAVELING TO WORK ONE MORNING IN NOVEMBER, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: A large owl %sits on the rough branch Last Line: His eyes are two saturns %in a new universe Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination TRAVELOGUE, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Never have I journeyed Last Line: Realm, the sky. Subject(s): Explorers; Travel; Vision; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Journeys; Trips TURN ON, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The blind boy is looking for his sight Last Line: And turn on the light Subject(s): Blindness; Boys; Explorers ULYSSES, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It little profits that, an idle king Last Line: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Ulysses Impatient Of Rest Subject(s): Aging; Explorers; Labor & Laborers; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Perseverance; Religion; Sea; Ulysses; Wandering & Wanderers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Work; Workers; Theology; Ocean; Odysseus; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes VAN GOGH, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: In those paintings about taverns, with Last Line: Inspired moments, create van goghs Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination VAN GOGH, by ARTUR LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: Your rugged, bony face. Your green eyes Last Line: Finally in your brain a sun: blazing, consuming, exploding Subject(s): Explorers; Hunger VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am monarch of all I survey Last Line: And reconciles man to his lot. Variant Title(s): Verses By Alexander Selkirk;alexander Selkirk;the Solitude Of Alexander Selkirk Subject(s): Explorers; Memory; Selkirk, Alexander (1676-1721); Solitude; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Loneliness VISION OF COLUMBUS, SELS., by JOEL BARLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In youthful minds to wake the ardent flame Last Line: Repay thy labours and remove thy pain Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Life Change Events; Nations; Peace VOLCANO, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: O fountain! O black smoke and loud report Last Line: Decks. Like skaters they glide in the pantomine Variant Title(s): In Praise Of Music And Poetr Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas night. The moon o'er the wide wave disclosed Last Line: From golden tajo, to return no more! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers WALKING NEAR VIRGINIA BEACH, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: Motionless in a pool of water %a yellow-billed crane Last Line: Inside the violin bones %of its dark legs! Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination WEEDS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He would like to be odysseus, tied to Last Line: Of eternity: the perfumed shroud of kings Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers WHALE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: What rich milk has fed the beast to size Last Line: The handiwork of god, pities the whale Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers WHEN AS A LAD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, as a lad, at break of day Last Line: For any save the soul's swift feet! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Boys; Childhood Memories; Explorers; Sea Voyages; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers WHERE TYRANTS PERISH, by JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sail on, columbus! Sail right onward still Last Line: Where tyrants perish and all men are free. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Tyranny & Tyrants; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America WHO AM I?, by EDVARD KOCBEK Poem Source First Line: I never am %what people think I am Last Line: This arrogant century in the face %and the century will blush Subject(s): Babel, Tower Of; Deserts; Explorers; Food And Eating; Travel WIDOW, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Heraldic like a banner on the bow Last Line: Prepared again to winnow, prepared to thrive Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers WIPING THE STARS, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The older korean gentleman %(barely 55!) Last Line: From his forehead %with his left hand Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination WOODEN MOON, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: The wooden moon %is a drifter. %hangs his hat %on any tree Last Line: Takes up residence %in the long strands of our loneliness Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination YOUR WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If you want to find your way through dublin Last Line: The manic street will part for you Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Explorers; Sky; Streets YOUTH, by LOUISE SUTHERLAND Poem Text First Line: O, let me sail the seven seas Last Line: If you've not gone romancing, too! Subject(s): Explorers; Love; Romance; Sea Voyages; Youth; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers |
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