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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FAMINE Matches Found: 34 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "A LAMENT FOR THE POTATO, A.D. 1739", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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 |
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