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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GOLD RUSH Matches Found: 12 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GOLDEN DREAM, by KATHRYN ROESER DUNLAP Poem Text First Line: The sun came out of the east Last Line: And found a place in the west. Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Frontier & Pioneer Life; West (u.s.); Gold Rush; Forty-niners; Southwest; Pacific States A PECK OF GOLD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Dust always blowing about the town Last Line: We all must eat our peck of gold.' Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Dust; Gold Rush; Forty-niners BALLAD OF THE GOLD COUNTRY, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the hill the gold sand burned Last Line: "upon another day!" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold; Vines & Vineyards; Gold Rush; Forty-niners JOHN SUTTER, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was the patriarch of the shining land Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Sutter, John (1803-1880); Failure; Gold Rush; Forty-niners SUTTER'S FORT, SACRAMENTO, by LUCIUS HARWOOD FOOTE Poem Text First Line: I stood by the old fort's crumbling wall Last Line: Dust and ashes and nothing more! Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Sutter's Fort, California; Gold Rush; Forty-niners THE DAYS OF '49, by CHARLEY RHODES Poem Text First Line: Here you see old tom moore Last Line: In the days of '49. Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold Rush; Forty-niners THE DAYS OF FORTY-NINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you are looking [or, we are gazing] on old tom moore" Last Line: "refrain -- but my heart is filled, etc" Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold Rush;forty-niners THE GOLD THAT GREW BY SHASTA TOWN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From shasta town to redding town Last Line: By pleasant, sunlit shasta town. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold Rush; Forty-niners THE GOLD-SEEKERS, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw these dreamers of dreams go by Last Line: Though the gold of the dice has been lost. Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold Rush; Forty-niners THE MEN OF FORTY-NINE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those brave old bricks of forty-nine! Last Line: Who made a pathway with their dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold Rush; Forty-niners THE YUKON'S SONG OF THE GOLD, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Lo! We are the waters that come from afar Last Line: The cañons of unsought gold. Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold; Hunting; Treasures; Yukon Territory; Gold Rush; Forty-niners; Hunters TO THE PIONEERS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How swift this sand, gold-laden, runs! Last Line: Sierra's snow-topt battle tents. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Pioneers; Gold Rush; Forty-niners |
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