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Subject: GLACIERS
Matches Found: 13

COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: THE GLACIER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: At one of its sources the river
Last Line: And our swift journeys beneath the stars
Subject(s): Alaska; Glaciers; Ice; Pacific Ocean; Tourists; Travel


FROM THE NORTHWEST COAST: GLACIER, by ALICE HENSON ERNST    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down from high silences, neighbored by moon and sun
Last Line: Fading to restless mist in some uncharted haven.
Subject(s): Glaciers


GLACIER, by ALVIN DAVID GREENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: They were, let's say, a couple we once knew
Last Line: One will come near, and there's nowhere you can go
Subject(s): Glaciers


GLACIER, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What voice has stilled the tumult, stayed the might
Subject(s): Glaciers


GLACIER, by LOUISE TOWNSEND NICHOLL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your cool, selective memory moving slow
Last Line: Until I see that dead face turn to dust.
Subject(s): Glaciers


GLACIER, by ALPAY ULKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can imagine how it must have been, the glacier
Last Line: Word by word as you said it %then the bearings: things, direction
Subject(s): Glaciers; Weathervanes


ICE SHALL COVER NINEVEH, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Distant on the meridian verges
Last Line: And for this wheat what winnowing floor what flail
Subject(s): Glaciers; Ice; Legends


ICE SHALL COVER NINEVEH, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Distant on the meridian verges
Last Line: And for this wheat what winnowing floor what flail
Subject(s): Glaciers; Ice; Legends


MY TREE, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's the cedar--the mother of lingonberry--that is my tree
Last Line: Among all the trees on earth it is nearest to the great snows, %to the blind son of the glacier. I w
Subject(s): Glaciers; Snow; Strength; Trees; Winter


THE GLACIER, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains have a peace which none disturb
Last Line: For those who sink to it unsanctified.
Subject(s): Glaciers


THE UNDERGROUND, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cities arise
Last Line: The glaciers have set up their tents
Subject(s): Cities; Glaciers; Hallucinations And Illusions; Sex; Violence; Urban Life


THERE WAS A TIME AN ECLIPSE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Art' to me is like walking down the street with someone and saying don't you love that building
Subject(s): Eclipses; Glaciers; Moon; Music And Musicians; Nature; Sky


WONDER, by SARAH ARVIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: What makes the inside of a glacier blue?
Last Line: -the obvious is easy to forget.'
Subject(s): Blue (color); Colors; Glaciers; God; Nature