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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FERRY BOATS Matches Found: 46 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT THE ROSEBUD BRIDGE, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: They have bridged you, o missouri Last Line: The romance of yesteryear. Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Ferry Boats; Missouri; Travel; Journeys; Trips BACK AND FORTH, by MITCHELL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: Give it to me Subject(s): Ferry Boats BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 6. ON THE FERRY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fog, now, and a bell Last Line: Toll the stale brain dissolved %in images of storm Subject(s): Ferry Boats CHARON, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my cottage near the styx Last Line: Charon, cerberus, and co. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Charon; Death; Ferry Boats; Styx (river); Dead, The COMING OF AGE ON THE HARLEM, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: My father would tie a life jacket Last Line: Just carefully enough to lead us here? Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harlem River, New York; New York City CONVOY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The smoke hung low on the sand-duned shore Last Line: Sound four? Subject(s): Disasters; Ferry Boats; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean CREST, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night was a bad one. Subject(s): Driving; Ferry Boats; Night; Rain; Relationships; Bedtime CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face Last Line: Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul. Subject(s): Americans; Brooklyn, New York; Ferry Boats; United States; America DEID FOLKS' FERRY, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis they, of a veritie Last Line: Through the mirk an' the saft sea-mist Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Ferry Boats DEJEUNER SUR L'HERBE, by TU FU Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's pleasant to board the ferry in the sunscape Last Line: It will be cold, going back. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ferry Boats; Rain DOBBS HIS FERRY; A LEGEND OF THE LOWER HUDSON, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The days were at their longest Last Line: And buy a place at dobbs! Subject(s): Dobbs Ferry, New York; Ferry Boats; Hudson River ECHO AND THE FERRY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, oliver! I was but seven, and he was eleven Last Line: Comes after -- with laughter comes after. Subject(s): Children; Churches; Echo (mythology); Ferry Boats; Childhood; Cathedrals FERRY FABLE; FROM SALTASH, CORNWALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A bumkin came to the river's side Last Line: Tis simply this you have to know - %he was a married man! Subject(s): Ferry Boats FERRY FROM THE VINEYARD, by PETER RENNICK Poem Source First Line: Too late to get beyond the kitsch-laden streets Last Line: Rescue, no rescue, drowning, return Subject(s): Death; Ferry Boats FERRY TO NOWHERE, by CHARLES EDWARD CARRYL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O come and cross over to nowhere Variant Title(s): Ferry Tal Subject(s): Ferry Boats FERRYBOAT AND THE TRAVELER, by HAN YONG-WOON Poem Source First Line: I am a ferry boat. A traveler, you tread on me Last Line: I am a ferryboat. You are a traveler Subject(s): Ferry Boats GALSWORTHY TAKES THE FERRY, by ELMER GUSTAFSON Poem Text First Line: Old charon had momentous freight that day Last Line: Met and with diffident good-will clasped hands. Subject(s): Charon; Ferry Boats; Galsworthy, John (1867-1933); Styx (river) IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 14. VARENNA FERRY, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After a morning's climb up the mountain Last Line: Or the knowledge we will be crossing more %than we think to try the castello's door Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Italy IN LATE SUMMER, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Twilight: the last ferry leaves vancouver Last Line: They knew were out there, %willing them to appear Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Islands LETTER WRITTEN ON A FERRY WHILE CROSSING LONG ISLAND SOUND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am surprised to see / that the ocean is still going on Subject(s): Ferry Boats; God; Long Island Sound; Nuns; Religion; Theology LETTER WRITTEN ON A FERRY WHILE CROSSING LONG ISLAND SOUND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am surprised to see %that the ocean is still going on Last Line: They call back to us %from the gauzy edge of paradise, %good news, good news Subject(s): Ferry Boats; God; Long Island Sound; Nuns; Religion MARCH 5, 1180. IN EARLY MORNING CROSSING THE GREAT MARSH FERRY: 1, by YANG WAN-LI Poem Source First Line: The river and hills beyond the fog Last Line: Printed by my straw sandals %is the very first mark Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Ferry Boats ON A FERRY BOAT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river widens to a pathless sea Last Line: From all that fondles life and feeds the heart. Subject(s): Doves; Ferry Boats; Rain; Rivers; Sea; Ocean ON A FERRYBOAT AT NIGHT, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ploughing away with a pang and a groan Last Line: Wrought as a ferry of eons and souls, the door of a dream to a dream Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Dreams ON THE BAY, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This watery vague how vast! This misty globe Last Line: Shows through the gray, itself in grayness lost! Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harbors; Lighthouses; New York Harbor ON THE DEATH OF THE FERRYMAN, GLAUCUS, by ANTIPHILUS Poem Source First Line: Glaucus, pilot of the nessus strait, born Last Line: So the old man might sail his own boat to hades Subject(s): Ferry Boats OVER THE WATER TO CHARLIE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come boat me o'er, come row me o'er" Last Line: We'll o'er the water Subject(s): Ferry Boats;water POET CHARGED IN SCRAPE, by JOHN+(2) MORGAN Poem Source First Line: As the ferry approached morse rock Last Line: The coast guard said Subject(s): Accidents; Ferry Boats; Sailors And Sailing RECUERDO, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were very tired, we were very merry Last Line: And we gave her all our money but our subway fares. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Charity; Ferry Boats; Love; Selva, Salomon De La (1893-1959); Philanthropy STATEN ISLAND FERRY: BACK, by MARIELLA Poem Text First Line: This is the thing I had not dreamed Last Line: Who only dreamed to have the sea. Subject(s): Ferry Boats; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple STATEN ISLAND FERRY: OVER, by MARIELLA Poem Text First Line: This is the sea! And these are gulls Last Line: Than to see the ocean? Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Staten Island STREETS IN SHANGHAI, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white butterlfy in the park is read by many Last Line: We look almost happy out in the sun, while we are bleeding fatally from %wounds we don't know about Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Shanghai, China; Travel THE BOATMAN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ferry me across the water Last Line: "I'll ferry you." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Ferryman;sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 88 Subject(s): Ferry Boats THE FERRY, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of marsh-mallows my boat is made Last Line: So long you tarry at the crossing. Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fear; Ferry Boats; Love - Complaints THE FERRY OF GALLAWAY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the stormy waters of gallaway Last Line: "love is thy conqueror, death!"" she cried." Subject(s): Ferry Boats THE JOLLY YOUNG WATERMAN, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And did you not hear of a jolly young waterman Last Line: When he's married and never in want of a fare? Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Ferry Boats THE MIDNIGHT FERRY, by MAX J. HERZBERG Poem Text First Line: I cried to my god Last Line: Beneath the moon so cried the sea in pain. Subject(s): Ferry Boats THE OLD FERRYMAN, by ANTIPHILUS OF BYZANTIUM Poem Text First Line: Glaucus, the islander, whose ferry crossing Last Line: Across the styx the veteran might ferry. Subject(s): Ferry Boats THE PENDULUM, by JURGIS BALTRUSHAITIS Poem Text First Line: When the dumb darkness most heavily clings Last Line: Cold, ineluctable footsteps of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Baltrushaitis, George; Baltrushaitis, Iurgis; Baltrushaitis, Yurgis Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harbors; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean THE WRECK OF THE 'THOMAS DRYDEN'; IN PENTLAND FIRTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood upon the sandy beach Last Line: And got lodgings for the night! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Ferry Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Tragedy; Dead, The; Ocean TWICKENHAM FERRY, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Ahoy! And o-ho! And it's who's for the ferry?' Last Line: There's danger in crossing to twickenham town. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Variant Title(s): A Verse From A Song, Once Painted On A Board At Twickenham Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Love; Moon; Twickenham, England TWICKENHAM FERRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hoi-ye-ho, ho-ye-ho, who's for the ferry! Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Twickenham, England UN BRUIT QUI COURT, by MAUREEN GIBBON Poem Source First Line: On the island, women are moored like boats Last Line: Split silently so that you would never know Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harbors; Islands VILLANELLE OF CITY AND COUNTRY, by ZOE AKINS Poem Text First Line: Beneath the arches of the leaves I lie Last Line: But oh, the towers set in gotham's sky! Subject(s): Ferry Boats; New York City; Romance; Skyscrapers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple WILLIAM OF THE FERRY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Near clyde's gay stream there dwelt a maid Last Line: With william of the ferry Subject(s): Ferry Boats;humility;peace WRITTEN AT CANDIDATE HSU'S VILLA ON THE TI RIVER, by PAO T'AN Poem Source First Line: The distant %ferry road blurs Last Line: Missing only %a gibbon's howl Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Travel; Zen Buddhism |
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