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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GULLS Matches Found: 85 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DEAD SEA-GULL; NEAR LIVERPOOL, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lack-lustre eye, and idle wing Last Line: Dying of soul decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Sea Gulls A GULL GOES UP, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gulls when they fly move in a liquid arc Last Line: That only bear the feathered heart no weight. Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls A POEM BY GARNIE BRAXTON, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Garnie, I wish I was a sea gull Last Line: I been there once Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Gulls; Labor & Laborers; Childhood; Seagulls; Work; Workers A SEA-BIRD; OFF PERU, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O to be a sea-bird one celestial day Last Line: In god's azure only sun and sea and I! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Nature - Religious Aspects; South America; Seagulls A TALISMAN, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a splintered mast Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls A WOMAN FEEDING GULLS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They cry out at the sight of her and come flying Subject(s): Gulls; Food & Eating; Seagulls AN OLD SONG, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black-winged gull Subject(s): Gulls; Love; Seagulls AND THERE WAS NO MORE SEA, by KATHARINE WASHBURN HARDING Poem Text First Line: Beyond and yet beyond new beauty calls Last Line: But oh, unsatisfied, there is no sea. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Mountains; Sea; Seagulls; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean AT REEVEY'S PRAIRIE, by ROBERT KING Poem Source First Line: Black-winged grasshoppers crackle up Last Line: For a moment, for a moment stopping Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Prairies; Sailors And Sailing; Travel BONES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It takes a long time to hear what the sands seem to bee saying Last Line: They extend farther than a man can see Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Gulls; Shipwrecks; Storms; Wind BY THE WELL OF LIVING AND SEEING (1 - 12), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dying gull %alone on a rock Last Line: Now and then - %with a sharp cry Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Gulls BY THE WELL OF LIVING AND SEEING: 12, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dying gull / alone on a rock Last Line: With a sharp cry Subject(s): Gulls DRAMA IN THE PORT, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: Slosh of ocean Last Line: Beyond the harbor the seagulls rest Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Immigrants; Sea Voyages; Thunder; Waves EIGHT OARS AND A COXSWAIN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eight oars compel Last Line: "steady! Pull it thr-o-o-ough!" Subject(s): Boats; New York City - Dutch Period; Rowing; Sea Gulls; Sports FLYING FISH: AN ODE, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low lies bermuda on our starboard bow Last Line: The ship drives on; bermuda looms ahead. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean FOG, by MARGARET R. SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: An everywhere of mist Last Line: The soul of all sea things! Subject(s): Death; Sea Gulls; Dead, The GOOFY YOUNG BALD EAGLE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A barrel of fish heads and guts Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Eagles; Gulls; Nature; Ravens GREAT GULL, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Restless, rising at dawn Last Line: A strange tongue but the tone clear Subject(s): Birds; Gulls GULL'S WINGS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Across my prison window they have flashed Last Line: I shall fling away. The gull may pass my window again. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Wings; Seagulls GULLS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My townspeople, beyond in the great world Last Line: The gulls moved seaward very quietly. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls GULLS AND BUOYS, by ANNE LEMIEUX Poem Source First Line: Gulls swoop, gulls soar Last Line: Raucous caucus, birds of a feather Subject(s): New England; Sea Gulls GULLS LAND AND CEASE TO BE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spread back across the air, wings wide Last Line: And are aground Subject(s): Death – Animals; Gulls GULLS OVER GREAT SALT LAKE, by ROSS SUTPHEN Poem Source First Line: What do they here, these denizens of the deep Subject(s): Birds; Great Salt Lake, Utah; Gulls I HAVE NOT KNOWN, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: I have not known this thing you call the sea Last Line: I should feel wonder ebb away from me. Subject(s): Ghosts; Pirates; Sea Gulls; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Supernatural; Water; Piracy; Buccaneers IMPRESSIONS, by BERNICE SMITH HAGMAN Poem Text First Line: Tattered eucalyptus trees Last Line: Arbutus springs from snowy bed! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails IN THE GREAT FLUX, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two gulls, a gray and a brown, veterans both Last Line: May fold them from all food and flight forever. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Life; Sea; Dead, The; Seagulls; Ocean JUST AS MORNING TWILIGHT AND THE GULLS, GLOUCESTER, MAY 1966, by CHARLES OLSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as moving twilight and the gulls start talking the cinnamon moon Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Moon; Seagulls JUST AS MORNING TWILIGHT AND THE GULLS, GLOUCESTER, MAY 1966, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as moving twilight and the gulls start talking the cinnamon moon Last Line: As much condition as the purchase of my soul by love as they Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Moon LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be sure the cantonal seagulls Last Line: Is no more than the flash of a lighter Subject(s): Birds; Gulls LA VELIA (THE SEA GULL: PONTINE MARSHES), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the marsh Last Line: And the tumult of waters. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sea; Sea Gulls; Wind; Ocean LINES TO A SEAGULL, by GERALD JOSEPH GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White bird of the tempest! O beautiful thing! Last Line: She smiles like a victor, serene on the world! Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls LONDON SEAGULLS, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pigeons of the abbey, the pigeons of saint paul's Last Line: As they did on london river two hundred years ago. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; London; Seagulls MOMENTS, by MARTHA BRINDLEY DARBYSHIRE Poem Text First Line: I saw a seagull Last Line: Breathless in the dawn. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Memory; Seagulls MONHEGAN GULLS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gulls on monhegan Last Line: To my remembering heart. Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Gulls; Sea; Sky; Flying; Seagulls; Ocean NEREID, by BLANCHE SCHOFIELD Poem Text First Line: She dances on a scallop stage Last Line: By tossing sea weed at her feet. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean NIGHTS AFTER RAIN WHEN THE MOON, by KWON HOMUN Poem Source Last Line: A flock of seagulls from somewhere %follows me around Subject(s): Birds; Gulls OFF THE IRISH COAST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gulls on the wind Last Line: Ever for love that stung? Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Gulls; Ireland; Love; Seagulls; Irish OVER THE BIER OF THE WORDLING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friends, what can I say Last Line: And the falling rain Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Gulls POEM BY GARNIE BRAXTON, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Garnie, I wish I was a sea gull Last Line: I been there once Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Gulls; Labor And Laborers RHYMES AND RHYTHMS: 11, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gulls in an aery morrice Last Line: The way of a man with a maid! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls RISING, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the government offices the rules and regulations Last Line: That the house is going out with the tide. Subject(s): Birds; Erosion; Gulls; Seashore; Waves; Seagulls; Beach; Coast; Shore ROGUE WAVE, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: This morning near my house, a wave swept up Last Line: Struck, lit only by a klieg-lamp's narrow gaze Subject(s): Death - Children; Disappeared Persons; Grief; Sea Gulls; Seashore; Storms; Waves SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 4. THE GULLS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White stars scattering Last Line: In a noiseless flight, far out across the sky. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls SEA GULLS IN DAKOTA, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: The western sky is filled with soaring wings Last Line: Of high tides, thundering, by the great sea wall. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls SEA IN MY WORDS, by FOLKE ISAKSSON Poem Source First Line: The sea is alwayst in my words Last Line: Into a triumphant arch Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Memory; Sea Voyages; Storms SEA-GULL, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the whimper of the sea-gull Last Line: Could you explain it to your she-gull? Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Sea Gulls SEA-GULLS OF MANHATTAN, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children of the elemental mother Last Line: While the river flows to meet the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; New York City; Seagulls; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SEAGULL, by KIM OK Poem Source First Line: Over the waves leaping and laughing Last Line: Fade lonely like a seagull %wandering, white Subject(s): Birds; Gulls SEAGULL CLAWS THE SKY...', by CHRISTIAN VIREDAZ Poem Source Last Line: Will one day ruin you Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Sky SEAGULLS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gull, up close, / looks surprisingly stuffed Last Line: Among our mortal apprehensions Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Poetry & Poets; Seagulls SEAGULLS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gull, up close, %looks surprisingly stuffed Last Line: Beautiful gods stroll unconcerned %among our mortal apprehensions Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Poetry And Poets SEAGULLS BESIDE FERRY BOAT, by BECKMAN. JOSHUA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea Gulls SEAGULLS IN LONDON, JANUARY, 1940, by RUTH PITTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They stormed upon me like catastrophe Last Line: If this be folly, o forgive it me! Subject(s): Birds; Forgiveness; Gulls; London; Clemency; Seagulls SEAL AND THE SEAGULL, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Even now, survival is godhead, a dim red glow warming the water Last Line: You could have chosen pity, feeding the tide the broken bones to see what %might come back Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seals (animals); Seashore; Water SHORELINE AT CAMBRIA, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early morning shoreline: a scattering of birds blackens the sky Last Line: And I'm out standing on the deck trying to capture this but it's %not possible Subject(s): Birds; Cambria, Wales; Gulls; Nature; Seashore SKY WITHOUT GULLS, by HELEN FRAZEE-BOWER Poem Text First Line: Always across the sea-scape of my mind Last Line: Where gulls should be -- and suddenly were not. Alternate Author Name(s): Bower, W. M., Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls SONG OF THE SEA-GULLS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds of the land, ye may carol and fly Last Line: In the glassy calm or tempest strife. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls SUPPOSE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Suppose the entire venture Last Line: To sit and listen to a seagull's cry Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Truth TALISMAN, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a splintered mast Last Line: Parting its beak to greet %men long dead Subject(s): Birds; Gulls TAMPA GULL, by MURRAY JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Yellow-nosed herring gulls Variant Title(s): Gull Subject(s): Birds; Gulls THAMES GULLS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful it is to see Last Line: And inaccessible as dido's phantom. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; London; Seagulls THE CRY OF GULLS, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: The cry of sea gulls Last Line: Into bits of confusion . . . Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls THE GOD OF THE GULLS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: O the god of the gulls goes straight and swift Last Line: Over the secret sea. Subject(s): Birds; God; Gulls; Nature - Religious Aspects; Travel; Seagulls; Journeys; Trips THE GULLS, by ANNA LEE TOMKINS Poem Text First Line: Their world is quite as large as mine Last Line: Emblems of joyous liberty. Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Gulls; Liberty; Seagulls THE GULLS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the gulls in shimmering changeful flight Last Line: "on brutal errands in the waves of care." Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls THE GULLS AND I, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We had the world to ourselves today Last Line: But what, ah, what of the land behind? Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls THE HEART OF OCEAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The grove's endearments are not thine Last Line: Heart of the moaning sea! Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Mortality; Mourning; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Bereavement THE OLD SEAPORT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winds were wailing round me Last Line: The wild seas made reply. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Culross, Perthsire, Scotland; Death; Funerals - At Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Seashore; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Beach; Coast; Shore THE POET'S JOURNAL: ON THE HEADLAND, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit on the lonely headland Last Line: Or weep to see me dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean THE SCRIVENER'S ROSES; FOR MARVIN FISHER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gulls fly in close formation becoming a patch of sail Last Line: Inside the convent's south garden wall. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Dead, The; Seagulls; Male-female Relations THE SEA'S WITHHOLDING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ladye's bower faced the sea Last Line: "can it be dawn and love away?" Subject(s): Disasters; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Shipwrecks; Storms; Wind THE SEA-GULL, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the white sea-gull, the wild sea-gull Last Line: For the sea is his truest home! Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Sea; Seagulls; Ocean THE SEA-GULL, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woods are full of merry minstrelsy Last Line: Love's endless echoes keep. Subject(s): Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean THE SEAGULL, by HERBERT BASHFORD Poem Text First Line: A ceaseless rover, waif of many climes Last Line: Or shriek amid black hollows of the sea? Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls THE SONG-SPARROW, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When june was cool and clover long Last Line: Still make a subterfuge of song! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Variant Title(s): The Song Sparrow Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls THE WHEEL OF LOVE, LIKE ALL WHEELS, COMES FULL CIRCLE, by HARRY BROWN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I killed a wounded gull at tahoe once Subject(s): Gulls; Death - Animals; Seagulls THE WILD WIND, by SARA NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: It's only on nights like this Last Line: Childhood memory. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Youth; Nightmares THE WOUNDED GULL, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along a grim and granite shore Last Line: The courage of the wounded gull. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls THREE FRIENDS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Fate and hard foes are prevailing? Last Line: The cliff, and the wind, and the sea! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Heaven; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Destiny; Paradise THREE WASH DRAWINGS: 1. PELICANS, by WINIFRED WALDRON Poem Text First Line: Three white-breasted pelicans Last Line: Under the thin white moon. Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans; Sea Gulls TIDAL BASIN AT TWILIGHT, by MARY B. OWEN Poem Text First Line: Over the waves the sea gulls wheeling Last Line: Come to me soon -- come soon. Subject(s): Evening; Sea Gulls; Shrines; Sunset; Twilight TO A SEA GULL IN THE CITY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On level and illumined wings, high over Last Line: Have blessed the eyes that lift to watch your flight Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls 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 THE GULLS COME IN, by HELEN MERRILL EGERTON Poem Text First Line: When the gulls come in, and the shallow sings Last Line: There's a gale in the heart of the golden sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Merrill, Helen M. Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Seagulls WHEN THE SEAGULLS TAKE FLIGHT, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: It was in her that the very first words relating to love had premiered Last Line: Wephasized, 'she has no words' Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Love; Sea |
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