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First Line: "there is woe, there is clamour, in our desolate land"
Last Line: "and shield us in the death-hour by thy strong, protecting hand"
Subject(s): Ireland - Famine;potatoes


ATLAS OF THE DIFFICULT WORLD: 6, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A potato explodes in the oven. Poetry and famine
Last Line: America. Meat three times a day, they said. Slaves - you would %not be that
Subject(s): Ireland - Famine; Sullivan, Annie (1866-1936)


BEGGING, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Famine came, it drove me off
Last Line: So much within me, I know not how to thank you, %I must pay you back from the world beyond
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): Begging And Beggars; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Famine


DRIMIN DONN DILIS (THE DEAR BROWN COW), by JOHN WALSH (1835-1881)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! Drimin donn dilis! The landlord has come
Last Line: With a blight on his life, and a brand on his brow.
Subject(s): Cows; Ireland - Famine


ELIJAH AND THE PRIESTS OF BAAL: IN A TIME OF FAMINE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ayehi many days the words of yahveh to elijah in the 3rd year (saying) go let ahab see you I will tr
Subject(s): Famine; Mysticism - Judaism


ERIN'S DAUGHTER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor erin's daughter cross'd the main
Last Line: In desolate despair
Subject(s): Despair; Ireland - Famine


FAMINE RELIEF, by MARILYN KRYSL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Explain, please, this wonder, this
Subject(s): Famine; Peace


FAMINE RELIEF, by MARILYN KRYSL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Explain, please, this wonder, this
Last Line: Shrill around emptiness, %and devouring, devouring
Subject(s): Famine; Peace


FAMINE SONG, by ADELE FLORENCE CORY NICOLSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Death and famine on every side
Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, Laurence
Subject(s): Famine


FAMINE: ETHIOPIA HITS THE TV NEWS AGAIN, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bituminous eyes starestruck
Last Line: Turn the channel. Now %they're gone
Subject(s): Ethiopia; Famine; Television


FIVE KERNELS OF CORN [APRIL, 1622], by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the year of the famine in plymouth of old
Last Line: To the thanksgiving feast bring five kernels of corn!
Subject(s): Famine; Plymouth, Massachusetts; United States - Colonial Period


GREAT FAMINE, by SORLEY MACLEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The clouds of famine with loathsome stink
Last Line: And hundreds of millions of creatures %after the great distress of life
Subject(s): Famine


GREAT HUNGER: 1, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clay is the word and clay is the flesh
Last Line: Be easy, october. No cackle hen, horse neigh, tree sough, duck quack
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Variant Title(s): The Great Hunge
Subject(s): Ireland - Famine


IN THE TIME OF FALSE MESSIAHS; CIRCA 1648, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He sat in the shade of trees at moonrise
Last Line: Everywhere below him there was hope.
Subject(s): Clergy; Famine; Hope; Poland; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Optimism


IN TIME OF FAMINE, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She has no heart,' they said, and turned away
Last Line: "to hear her brave sad laughter in the air."
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Famine; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares


IRELAND (1847), by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are dying! They are dying! Where the golden corn is growing
Last Line: Health is blowing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Maccarthy, Denis Florence
Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Famine; Patriotism; Liberty


IRELAND; WRITTEN FOR THE ART AUTOGRAPH DURING IRISH FAMINE, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heartsome ireland, winsome ireland
Last Line: Baltimore, 1880.
Subject(s): Famine; Ireland; Irish


QUARANTINE, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the worst hour of the worst season
Subject(s): Ireland - Famine


SEVEN SONGS WRITTEN DURING THE CH'IEN-YUAN ERA: 1, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a sister, little sister, living in chung-li
Last Line: Forest monkeys for my sake wail even at noon
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Famine


SEVEN SONGS WRITTEN DURING THE CH'IEN-YUAN ERA: 1, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have brothers, younger brothers in a place far away
Last Line: If I should die here, how would you find my bones?
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Famine


SEVEN SONGS WRITTEN DURING THE CH'IEN-YUAN ERA: 1, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long hoe, long hoe, handle of white wood
Last Line: Village lanes for my sake put on the face of pity
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Famine


SEVEN SONGS WRITTEN DURING THE CH'IEN-YUAN ERA: 1, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A traveler, a traveler, tzu-mei his name
Last Line: Mournful winds for my sake come down from the sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): Famine


SPRING FAMINE, by HWANG KUMCHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down the pass of spring famine
Last Line: I can't see anything around
Subject(s): Famine


THAT THE SCIENCE OF CARTOGRAPHY IS LIMITED, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And not simply by the fact that this shading of
Subject(s): Food Habits; Ireland - Famine; Maps; Potatoes


THAT THE SCIENCE OF CARTOGRAPHY IS LIMITED, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: #name?
Last Line: And finds no horizon %will not be there
Subject(s): Food Habits; Ireland - Famine; Maps; Potatoes


THE FAMINE YEAR, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weary men, what reap ye? Golden corn for the stranger
Last Line: And arraign ye as our murderers, the spoilers of our land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Freedom; Ireland - Famine; Vengeance; Liberty


THE GREAT HUNGER: 1, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clay is the word and clay is the flesh
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Variant Title(s): The Great Hunger
Subject(s): Ireland - Famine


THE HEATHER ON FIRE, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: High on a granite boulder, huge in girth
Last Line: His body to the land that had begrudged a grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Famine; Highlands Of Scotland; Landlords & Tenants; Pain; Tragedy; Suffering; Misery


THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: THE FAMINE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh the long and dreary winter!
Last Line: "to the land of the hereafter!"
Subject(s): Famine


THE WAR SHIP OF PEACE, by SAMUEL LOVER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet land of song, thy harp doth hang
Last Line: Columbia's glorious name.
Subject(s): Ireland - Famine; Jamestown (ship); Navy - United States; American Navy


THE YOUNG SUICIDES IN IRELAND, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky is lined
Last Line: Ticking, tipping them forward.
Subject(s): Ireland - Famine; Suicide; Youth


THREE GRAINS OF CORN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give me three grains of corn, mother
Last Line: Mother! Dear mother! Ere I die, %give me three grains of corn
Subject(s): Adversity; Famine; Ireland


THREE GRAINS OF CORN; THE IRISH FAMINE, by AMELIA BLANDFORD EDWARDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me three grains of corn, mother
Last Line: Give me three grains of corn.
Subject(s): Adversity; Famine; Ireland; Irish


VOICES FROM THE OLD WORLD: THE FAMINE OF 1847, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A voice from out the highlands
Last Line: When perish erin's daughters?
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace
Subject(s): Famine; Ireland - Famine; Scotland