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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FLOODS Matches Found: 69 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A STORY OF DOOM: BOOK 1, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Niloiya said to noah, what aileth thee Last Line: Shall have no let of me, to do its will.' Subject(s): Arks; Floods; God; Judgment Day; Noah (bible); End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man AFTER FLOOD, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only these ravished banks Subject(s): Floods AFTER THE FLOOD, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning it was over, I walked Last Line: What sort of drunken creature had passed there Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Floods; Rivers; Water BALLAD OF THE DROVER, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the stony ridges / across the rolling plain Last Line: All sounding eerily. Subject(s): Death; Drovers; Floods; Homecoming; Dead, The BETWEEN HINGHAM AND BRAINTREE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between braintree and hingham Last Line: On the full flood tide! Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Storms; Water BLACKOUT, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: Bill the hurricane is standing on my roof Last Line: But this black wall of water, this ocean %tipped on its side Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Hurricanes; Nature; Rain; Weather CASUALTIES: 19. THE FLOOD, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain of events pours down Last Line: Who were at home on sea, air, and land Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Umbrellas; Water CONTEMPORARY VERSES ON THE FLOOD OF 1792; WORCESTERSHIRE, by ? CRANE Poem Source First Line: My native place, how strong thou art Last Line: In every vein their blood ran chill, %and women's tongues, for once, stood still Subject(s): Floods CREST IN THE KITCHEN, by ALBERT EISELE Poem Text First Line: There goes his glass! A rag, a rag Last Line: A new one comes tomorrow. Subject(s): Floods DISSATISFACTION WITH METAPHYSICS, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High over mecca allah's prophet's corpse Last Line: The corpses flew, when god flooded the plain. %he promised noah not to flood again Subject(s): Floods ELLESMERE POOL LEGENDL SHROPSHIRE, by OSWALD FIELDEN Poem Source First Line: I've heard it said, where now so clear Last Line: Her cottage, still above the flood %an island may be seen Subject(s): Floods EVERYTHING, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: When the river rose that year, we were beside it Last Line: And that everything would never be the same Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Nature; Rain FLOOD, by FRANCESCA ABBATE Poem Source First Line: Here is the city of desire, city without roofs Last Line: The dark sky marked by thin, white clouds. %the geese climbing Subject(s): Cities; Floods FLOOD, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold-brown upon the sated flood Last Line: Lambent and vast and ruthless as is thine / incertitude Subject(s): Floods FLOOD, by ETHEL BROOKS KOGER Poem Text First Line: Rivers leap their banks in torrential pouring Last Line: Clouds rent asunder! Subject(s): Floods FLOOD, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lingering clouds, rolling, rolling Last Line: But neither boat nor carriage comes. Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Floods FLOOD OF FIRST SUMMER, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: Moon. It has torn its net, the algae green monster. Night Last Line: Violet, child-dead sunday. I can not find it Subject(s): Floods; Rain FLOOD PLAIN, by MICHELLE BOISSEAU Poem Source First Line: The land lies flooded and fat. The sun Last Line: Is fluent and flashing and vast Subject(s): Earth; Floods; Prairies FLOOD PLAIN, by EDWARD BYRNE Poem Source First Line: Past the stuccoed walls of the strip mall at the edge Last Line: But bottomland, alluvial soil lost to sight in temporary lakes Subject(s): Floods FLOOD SERMON, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the night, we got up, surely half the town Last Line: That the world was leass good than it was bad Subject(s): Floods; City & Town Life FLOOD WATCH, by SYLVIA K. POLIKOFF Poem Source First Line: Love to hear ol' man river Last Line: Silently rolling %just rolling %along... Subject(s): Floods; Rivers FLOOD; ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, 1982, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: We have been four days on the second floor Last Line: With our knees, with our low places. %snakes, swimming Subject(s): Floods FLOODGATE, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low, when the western flock is folded Last Line: And the owl begins his flight. Subject(s): Birds; Floods; Insects; Owls; Bugs FRAGMENT OF A POEM ON THE WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came a spirit down at eventide Last Line: * * * * * Subject(s): Floods HIDDEN, by CHARLES WYATT Poem Source First Line: When the river flooded Last Line: A weed shakes, trapped beneath a bird Subject(s): Farm Life; Floods HIGH WATER EVERYWHERE: 1, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: The backwater done rose all around sumner : drove [me, poor charley] down the l Last Line: I'm going back to the hilly country : won't be worried no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Floods HIGH WATER EVERYWHERE: 2, by CHARLEY PATTON Poem Source First Line: The water was rising : up in my friend's door Last Line: I thought I would take a trip lord : out on the big *ice slab* Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Floods HOW THE FIRE QUEEN CROSSED THE SWAMP, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flood was down in the wilga swamps, three feet over the mud Last Line: "him through!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Devil; Floods; Horses; Swamps; Trucks & Trucking; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Bogs; Fens; Marshes JACK, by ANITA OLACHEA BUCCI Poem Source First Line: You and I have a lot in common,' I tell him, as we bundle up on the Last Line: We shiver in the sun: who said there's nothing new beneath it? Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Rivers; Tides; Water LINES TO A GARDEN HOSE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sprinkle, sprinkle, little hose" Last Line: Irresponsibility! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;floods;gardens & Gardening;water MERMILL RD., MILTON CENTER, by MARK DALEY Poem Source First Line: We're watered down, this morning light diffuse Last Line: Wearing down like weather does a rock Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Storms; Weather; Wind METAMORPHOSES: THE FLOOD RECEDES, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When jove behelde how all the worlde stoode lyke a plash of rain Last Line: All bare, save that upon the boughes the mud did hang in knops Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Floods MISCHIEF MAKING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a tiny dropping Last Line: For a scarcely-guessed mistake! Subject(s): Affliction; Floods MUDDY WATERS, by GERTRUDE RAY PLUMMER Poem Text First Line: Clouds are heavy overhead Last Line: Then he drifts away from sight. Subject(s): Floods NEW YEAR, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another flood is finished to a fall Last Line: Will long bear us aberrants on the beach Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Floods; Holidays; New Year; Rain; Seashore; Time; Water NOAH'S ARK, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It was one of my oldest toys, the ark my father made Last Line: Like birds eager to lift Subject(s): Floods; Noah (bible); Religion; Rivers ON THE GREAT FOG IN LONDON, DECEMBER 1762, by JAMES EYRE WEEKS Poem Text First Line: Lost and bewildered in the thickening mist Last Line: Or corks afloat upon the sullen flood. Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Fog; Mist; Soldiers; Haze RAIN, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: There are so many kinds of rain Last Line: And leaving to exalt or jade. Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Water; Weather RAIN, by RANDALL MANN Poem Source First Line: This is the rain Last Line: The ground, lied god, in the beginning Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Water; Weather RISING HIGH WATER BLUES, by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON Poem Source First Line: Backwater rising : southern people can't make no time Last Line: I leave with a prayer in my heart : backwater won't rise no more Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Floods RIVER SOUND REMEMBERED, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That day the huge water drowned all voices until Last Line: That I will hear longer than any mortal song Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Drowning; Floods; Rivers SAID HANRAHAN, by P. J. HARTIGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll all be rooned,' said hanrahan / in accents most forlorn Last Line: "before the year is out." Alternate Author Name(s): O'brien, John+(2) Subject(s): Drought; Fire; Floods; God; Pessimism SINKER, by ALEC KOWALCZYK Poem Source First Line: When they inundated the hollow Last Line: And at the end of the line, %a leaded weight Subject(s): Floods; Water SNOW IN JERUSALEM, by JERRY MAZZA Poem Source First Line: Reports the new york times Last Line: The simmering landscape's pyre Subject(s): Floods; News; Snow; Winter SONNET, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a rived tree, that stands beside the grave Last Line: Aghast she stands, the statue of her fears! Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Fear; Floods; Love - Loss Of SOUND EYE AND COYOTE DICK AT APACHE LAKE, by CATHERINE HAMMOND Poem Source First Line: Me and him, we came up looking Last Line: Snarl, woven into rough cloth- %rattles lounder even than rain Subject(s): Floods SPRING FLOODS (IN NORMANDY), by WILLIAM RENTON Poem Text First Line: A power is in the floods awake Last Line: A city by a sea. Subject(s): Floods; Normandy, France TEMPTATION, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: The floods arise -- o god! The floods arise Last Line: The frightful siege of their unhallowed hands. Subject(s): Floods THE BALLAD OF THE LONG DAM, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the day the dam gave way, I mind it / awfully well Last Line: And riley's daughter's married to me — honest, so help me god. Subject(s): Floods; Water; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains THE COMET, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eye of the demon on albion was turned Last Line: The fire-brand of yamen shall dazzle in vain. Subject(s): Anger; Devil; England; Envy; Floods; Weather; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; English THE FLOOD, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On lolham brigs in wild and lonely mood Last Line: Like trouble wandering to eternity Subject(s): Floods THE GREAT YELLOW RIVER INUNDATION IN CHINA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1887, and on the 28th of september Last Line: For fear god punished you likewise for your iniquities. Subject(s): China; Drowning; Floods; Rain; Rivers; Water THE HIGH TIDE AT [OR, ON THE COAST OF] LINCOLNSHIRE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old mayor climbed the belfry tower Last Line: "jetty, to the milking-shed!" Variant Title(s): The Brides Of Enderby Subject(s): Death; Floods; Lincolnshire, England; Tides; Dead, The THE LAKE HAS BURST, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lake has burst! The lake has burst! Last Line: On earth, and in air, and the stormy sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Floods THE RAIN BATH, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember how in camp one day Last Line: We ran forth naked to the morning bath. Subject(s): Floods; Youth THE RIDE OF COLLINS GRAVES, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No song of a soldier riding down Last Line: For he offered his life for the people's sake! Subject(s): Courage; Floods; Graves, Collins; Williamsburg, Massachusetts; Valor; Bravery THE RIVER MEADOWS (IN FLOOD): 59, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then, to conclude these pleasant acts Last Line: And isles th'astonisht cattle round. Subject(s): Floods; Rivers THE RIVER MEADOWS (IN FLOOD): 60, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let others tell the paradox Last Line: And pikes are taken in the pound. Subject(s): Floods; Rivers THE RIVER MEADOWS (IN FLOOD): 61, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But I, retiring from the flood Last Line: Take sanctuary in the wood. Subject(s): Floods; Rivers THE SECRET OF THE WATERFALL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silver waters smoothly slip / in an overarching flood Last Line: And few there are who understand. Subject(s): Floods; Marriage; Sound; Water; Waterfalls; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SURF, by JURGIS BALTRUSHAITIS Poem Text First Line: The day's wild ocean sings and thunders Last Line: On hour in restless monotone. Alternate Author Name(s): Baltrushaitis, George; Baltrushaitis, Iurgis; Baltrushaitis, Yurgis Subject(s): Floods; Seashore; Surfing; Thunder; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WATERS, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Placid it lies as death and passionless as the grave Last Line: Till their pent-up rage broke forth on the men who curbed their will. Subject(s): Floods; Water TO FLOOD STAGE AGAIN, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In fargo, north dakota, a man Last Line: I open my eyes and gaze down %at the dark water Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Floods TO LADY AUSTEN, WRITTEN IN RAINY WEATHER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To watch the storms, and hear the sky Last Line: And no ambition to have more. Subject(s): Floods; Storms UNDER GREAT LIGHT FLOODED CLOUDS, by RUSSELL EDSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The horse is sticky. If you touch it, it sticks to your hands like chewing Last Line: I mount, and am away Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Weather UNDER THE WHARF, by IDA COLE BARTLATT Poem Text First Line: Silurus shoals and water butterflies Last Line: Rising from this dark flood to seek eternal breath? Subject(s): Birds; Death; Floods; Gulls; Seashore; Water; Dead, The; Seagulls; Beach; Coast; Shore WHEN SEVERN'S SWEEPING FLOOD HAD OVERTHROWN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Let not our times halt in their better choice! Subject(s): Severn (river), England; Floods; Wales; Churches YEAR'S FIRST RAIN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain comes %after long surcease in desert Last Line: Swollen already with the life to break at day Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Water YOU CANNOT PUT A FIRE OUT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And tell your cedar floor Subject(s): Fire; Floods |
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