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Subject: HAWAII Matches Found: 374 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALOHA OE; ITS MEANING, by DON BLANDING Poem Source First Line: It's more than just an easy word for casual good-bye Last Line: It's said a hundred different ways, in sadness and in joy; %aloha means 'I love you.' so, I say 'alo Subject(s): Hawaii ALOHA'OE (FAREWELL TO THEE), by LYDIA KAMAKAEHA Poem Source First Line: Proudly swept the rain by the cliffs Last Line: And sip the honey from thy lips Subject(s): Farewell; Hawaii ALOHA, AINA, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: My father knocked Last Line: Even here, far away as I live Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Hawaii; Home; Pacific Ocean AN ACCOUNT OF A VISIT TO HAWAII, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow through the fronds, fire flows into the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Hawaii AUBADE, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Waking is this easy Last Line: Clams in the mudflat for the taking Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Hawaii; Morning AUWE NA POOLA!, by EMMA LYONS DOYLE Poem Text First Line: Rushes lie on the alanui Last Line: Pololei -- right Subject(s): Hawaii; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers BLOOD ON THE LAND, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mourning floods the 'aina Last Line: And black %illuminations %as trees Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 1, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born in a dark wave the fragrance of red seaweed Last Line: And kepola in the spring in the time of the flying fish Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 10, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After ko'olau was born kukui wanted Last Line: Had said he would not refuse baptism to anyone Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 11, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By then there had been a church at waimea for most Last Line: And asked -- is it a night name -- and she said -- it is his name Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 12, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she turned to the rows of faces she looked directly Last Line: That was keeping him on kauai nobody seemed to know Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 13, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Niuli looked after ko'olau from the beginning Last Line: To let her know that she was going to have a baby Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 14, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And they stood smiling in spite of everything they knew Last Line: I suppose that is all right maybe he will take care of her Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 15, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nakaula wondered whether father rowell Last Line: The baby a girl whose name would be pi'ilani Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 16, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You hear the owl just when the baby was coming Last Line: Up high on the old mule and felt the reins in his hands Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 17, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nakiaula and kaleimanu picked up threads Last Line: And the pastor standing there holding a hammer and nails Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 18, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then there was the matter of the melodeon Last Line: Of the board of foreign missions and there he started his school Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 19, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nakaula and kaleimanu had been using Last Line: Pi'ilani did her lessons without a word Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 2, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the stream from the falls at waipao wound among rocks Last Line: And kukui was sure she owed both lives to his prayer Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 20, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever the pastor pronounced to them in that voice Last Line: And it stayed there meaning a sound that it did not have Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 21, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They learned to draw the white lines themselves and repeat Last Line: And they put you on a boat and you never came back Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 22, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He forgot about makuale on the way home Last Line: Out toward makaweli he had his eye on her Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 23, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The right one -- niuli said -- what does she look like Last Line: Was hers all along and that is how it looks to me Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 24, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When can we go and see the horses -- ko'olau asked him Last Line: They kept asking each other questions about getting married Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 25, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Niuli questioned her mother quietly about kua Last Line: She said -- but he is the one she wanted to marry Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 26, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ko'olau was doing badly at school the fighting Last Line: He said to kaleimanu -- go and ask father rowell Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 27, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was when the still days of summer were gone and the light Last Line: Was the feeling he had of watching a fish escape him Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 28, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He talked of it afterward as though it were what he Last Line: And then niuli nodded but they lay awake most of the night Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 29, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ko'olau kept to himself like a secret kua's telling him Last Line: Maybe I saw something good from the start -- the judge said Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 3, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kawaluna was of an older mind than her daughter's Last Line: And kawaluna watched it all like an owl in daylight Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 30, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Niuli and pi'ilani were helping kukui Last Line: Do you think that is the reason -- the judge asked -- keep reading Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 31, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a while they would look back wondering where that Last Line: And whether removal was the only thing to be done Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 32, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At kekaha the children had outgrown playing Last Line: And they told each other what they had heard about her Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 33, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the mill kaleimanu had heard the men laughing Last Line: And everyone round them could see what was happening Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 34, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then whatever they were doing they found that they were Last Line: For a while they imagined they believed their own stories Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 35, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the ranch at waiawa and at hofgaard's store Last Line: They could tell when he was around by the way the dogs barked Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 36, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kaleimanu had heard that this iole came Last Line: But would keep them clean and bathe them and nurse their sores herself Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 37, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ko'olau heard the men in hofgaard's store talking Last Line: And she told him that she was going to have a child Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 38, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pi'ilani said that her mother had understood Last Line: A wedding -- ko'olau said -- we never talked about that Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 39, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ko'olau thought judge kauai had forgotten saying Last Line: At the door of the church as the shy faces filed in Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 4, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the new church that had just been finished the one Last Line: And kukui smiled without thinking about anything Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 40, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the wedding the judge and his wife kaenaku Last Line: Then she stopped and stood looking at them while they were there Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 5, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That evening they set out a feast and the village gathered Last Line: Talking about what had gone on before she was born Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 6, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then they talked about the new judge kauai and how old Last Line: They talked about knudsen and about his horses Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 7, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nolewai nolewai some of them had heard him say Last Line: One more reason they said why knudsen needed a wife Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 8, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of the sounds that niuli would remember Last Line: Then ko'olau's voice later when he was a child Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii BORN: 9, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through those years kukui always spoke of the reverend Last Line: The family rode up the valley to the garden Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CHANT OF LAMENTATION, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lament the abandoned / terraces, their shattered Subject(s): Hawaii; Imperialism CHANT OF LAMENTATION, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I lament the abandoned %terraces, their shattered Last Line: Ground-up bones, their %poisoned eyes? Subject(s): Hawaii; Imperialism CHRISTIANITY, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Loves god's children Last Line: Darkness bearing %the mark of salvation Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 10, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ko'olau said -- I think now they will be back soon Last Line: Unless you would rather die here than go with them Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 11, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In hofgaard's store the news of the shooting of stolz Last Line: The insurgents and persuading them to leave peacefully Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 12, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were reporters from the papers standing around Last Line: Where the day was about to break above the mountain Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 13, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the landing at hanalei larsen telephoned Last Line: A little white when I told him he would have no protection Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 14, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fall out -- the sergeant major shouted and the men sat around Last Line: On deck that morning something about geronimo Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 15, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early that morning kaleimanu and ida Last Line: Is what he said unless we let him take us away Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 16, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a moment sitting there hearing him Last Line: As though they were playing a game she had grown up knowing Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 17, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Captain larsen had lined up his own men on the beach Last Line: Were protecting the feet of the retired judge kauai Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 18, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you burst in upon us so rudely -- the judge said to them Last Line: Larsen asked paoa who answered that he did not know Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 19, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And what will ko'olau do not -- larsen asked paoa Last Line: Which that evening offended his more earnest companions Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 2, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They gathered a few at a time and sat in the shade Last Line: They kept stopping to listen for someone coming Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 20, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ghost dawn pi'ilani heard the owl and she reached Last Line: I will get them home -- and kepola and ida followed him Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 21, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning the soldiers of the provisional government Last Line: And found nothing and burned each house as they left it Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 22, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The largest group in the hunt fifteen of them under Last Line: To understand and he would tell them it was a living Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 23, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the seven who had come up from the valley Last Line: The trail -- and ko'olau shot twice and the man was gone Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 24, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one was looking up at that moment their eyes Last Line: Announced that they would go at first light to find the body Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 25, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first they heard nothing except the echoes and echoes Last Line: But not all the same -- and he felt the child shivering Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 26, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Larsen and king and pratt sat up late in the tents Last Line: And it seemed they had given up for a good meal Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 27, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the ledge they could hear the voices before daylight Last Line: I think it will be some time before they can find us there Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 28, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They ate the rest of the food and ko'olau took two rifles Last Line: With a cave above a waterfall and banana trees Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 29, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pratt wanted to use the howitzer larsen opposed it Last Line: A cotton shirt some dried eel and empty cartridges Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 3, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I think louis stolz may try to wait for me Last Line: And the ones who had been hiding were carrying their guns Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 30, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through one tree above the waterfall they could see Last Line: He saw that the tents were gone and there were no boats on the shore Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 31, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sat for a long time looking down into the valley Last Line: They built a small fire of dry sticks and cooked a meal Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 32, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then for a quarter of the moon they lived that way Last Line: On kaleimanu's feet before we came to the valley Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 33, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they got back to limamuku they found him Last Line: Held him and rocked him in the blanket and talked to him Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 34, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The months of autumn passed and they moved from one sheltered place Last Line: Ko'olau stood up facing them holding the rifle Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 35, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh it is ko'olau -- wili kini said and the others Last Line: But he said -- you know I could never repay you Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 36, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The next day they were down there and they heard voices again Last Line: More often and for longer and they carried him everywhere Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 37, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was summer again and they were in the upper valley Last Line: Was there in the light and they saw how weak he was growing Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 38, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It had been three years since the night they set out from kekaha Last Line: A grave for him inside it and lined it with ferns and buried him Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 39, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As they laid him in the ferns she began the chanting Last Line: Toward the valley and slept that night in another place Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 4, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ko'olau said to them -- I have heard what this stolz told you Last Line: Onto the rocks and they went down and found him dead Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 40, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without kaleimanu to take care of any more Last Line: Some nights she dreamed of white sand and voices along the shore Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 5, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Paoa said to ko'olau -- that was my rifle Last Line: To mana if that caroe gets there -- and they put the body down Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 6, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in that light pi'ilani could see how frightened Last Line: Through the valley which seemed to have become a different place Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 7, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kaumeheiwa the gentle kaumeheiwa the smiling Last Line: And paddled home to kalalau as the stars were fading Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 8, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the way it had seemed to him that if he could tell Last Line: The father and the boy named pa were watching from the headland Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS: 9, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well now they have two heroes -- the judge said -- and you can be sure Last Line: When voices are rising about this news from kalalau Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIFFS; 1, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cliffs rose before him straight into the summer sky Last Line: The famous swimmer had decided to go to moloka'I Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 1, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing in the dark she felt the small stones turn Last Line: Above her the voices of the plovers stitched the night Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 10, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At that moment the rain began to thunder down on the Last Line: Though she could not hear a sound out of all that time Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 11, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking up into the same deafening recesses Last Line: Then hearing the roar of the night with no sound no answer Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 12, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They did not hear maka'e come in with a tray Last Line: Of spoons on china and the fire and the stream rushing Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 13, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anne said -- we were together this month at makaweli Last Line: After a moment pi'ilani said -- thank you -- and shook her head Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 14, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She looked into the fire until anne was wondering Last Line: Only that nobody knows the place where I left them Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Variant Title(s): The Folding Cliffs: I. Xi Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 15, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anne watched pi'ilani looking into the flames Last Line: Who might crawl in over the rocks like crabs to steal the dead Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 16, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How utterly still she sat as she was saying it all Last Line: It was only our own voices that made no echoes Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Variant Title(s): The Folding Cliffs: I. Xv Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 17, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember ko'olau's voice even now -- anne said Last Line: And he said that each of them knew where it was going Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 18, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had named him for his grandfather for ko'olau's father Last Line: And from afterward so that nobody could see them Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 19, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said that when we hold a bird what is in our hands Last Line: We will go and see ko'olau said and carried him half asleep Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 2, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She knew the way now as something of hers a sound Last Line: Her name pi'ilani and asked her the lifelong question Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 20, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the way going up from here to kilohana Last Line: Of kalalau appears to be as deep as the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 21, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And on the edge I thought I was hearing nothing Last Line: But the boy kept looking atkua without answering Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 22, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pi'ilani remembered them all saying good-bye then Last Line: And after a moment said to her -- it is a little thing Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 23, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stood with her arms around the older woman Last Line: And I ask you to excuse me it is time to go Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 24, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You walked all night -- anne said -- there is still a long way to go Last Line: The garden and she smiled because she took no stock in such things Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Variant Title(s): The Folding Cliffs: I. Xxi Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 25, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pi'ilani had never meant to stay so long Last Line: Over their shoulders -- how did they get there -- the child asked Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 26, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then kua who had been old enough to be riding Last Line: When they were starved half dead and we never knew more than that Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 27, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pi'lani thought of riders coming back from the mountain Last Line: Nobody in front of her and the sun was already high Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 28, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came to hills of bright cloud rolling up out of the valley Last Line: And his uncle who was kanealohi slow man Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 29, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said -- after they came up here to eat the 'uwa'u Last Line: And it was lahi who became the chief later in the story Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 3, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she had gone up that trail for the first time Last Line: They would say never misses he never misses Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 30, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was then that kua had led kaleimanu Last Line: Disappered over the edge into kalalau Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 31, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first there were small trees rooted in the crevices Last Line: So that the curtain of rock hung again beside her Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 32, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind had lashed at them here as it lashed at her this time Last Line: Whose feet were gone or withered and no use to them Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 33, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had been sure before she set out that nobody Last Line: Answered the same way saying that she had known it in the night Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 34, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And it was in the night that he had died just as Last Line: But if you want to come back ko'olau come back come back Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 35, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had changed the same words until she heard them Last Line: Onto it and closed the bushes back over it Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 36, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then it had been dark and once more she had chanted to him Last Line: Into the night surf to be washed clean in the darkness Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 37, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As she came down the dry cliff in the heat of the afternoon Last Line: Four or five months in the ground had once been ko'olau Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 38, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything on the torn tongue of paper had told her Last Line: She would go over by herself into kalalau Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 39, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was sure now as she lifted the tangle of branches Last Line: Nobody has found you nobody has found you Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Variant Title(s): The Folding Cliffs: I. Xxxi Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 4, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She saw it as a leaf floating under calm weather Last Line: And she was riding among them a ghost among the ghosts Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 40, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She moved cautiously to the grave breaking nothing Last Line: And then she lay down and herd the sleep of the mountain Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 5, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had been climbing for a long time and the moon had Last Line: And she stood up listening and then she turned and went on Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 6, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first shadow was beginning to surface in the dark Last Line: Appeared in the west and only the birds saw it Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 8, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They both stood listening and they heard the small Last Line: Up here alone -- and as they turned the rain began again Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii CLIMBING: 9, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As they went up the steps the white woman called maka'e Last Line: Pi'ilani said -- but that time was different Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii COLONIZATION, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our own people %say 'hawaiian %at heart.' makes Last Line: Cut out %by our own %familiar hand Subject(s): Hawaii COMIN HOME, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hilo bay %was so malie Last Line: Hahd for believe %you neva %comin back Subject(s): Hawaii DARK TIME, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A photograph: blonde edges Last Line: An ancient death chant %to the stars Subject(s): Hawaii DAWN, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sit in %laua'e %long green gloss %between your thighs Last Line: The great red day %straight at you Subject(s): Hawaii DAY AT THE BEACH, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I came to write about Last Line: Women flicking %their tongues %at the scaly air Subject(s): Hawaii DEAD VOLCANO, by HELEN LOUISE STAPLEFORD Poem Text First Line: Beneath the tao tree at waikiki Last Line: And pele sleeps through soft hawaiian days. Subject(s): Waikiki, Hawaii EVERY ISLAND A GOD, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Going down with the night %of our deities Subject(s): Hawaii FAR-AWAY DREAMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When seated in my easy chair Last Line: Lost in the southern sea. Subject(s): Commuters; Farewell; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Parting; Oceania; Journeys; Trips FIRST HAWAIIAN BANK, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her hair snipped and tightly curled gives me great comfort Last Line: Unlike mine, you save me. I would grow so tired were it not for you. Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Grandparents; Hawaii; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers FLIGHT OVER ERUPTING MAUNA LOA, by FLORENCE OBERMAN Poem Text First Line: Boil, old kettle of slag, and bubble! Last Line: Boil, old kettle of slag and bubble! Subject(s): Mauna Loa (volcano), Hawaii FROM THE ISLANDS, by ZOE KERNICK Poem Source First Line: All night I lay in your arms Last Line: The one on the black storm waters of haupu Subject(s): Hawaii HA'IKU: 1, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing %like this beauty Last Line: Burned through these mountains %with missionary lust Subject(s): Hawaii HA'INA IA MAI ANA KA PUANA: 1. A CONTEMPORARY EXPLANATION OF THE TERM, by CAROLYN LEI-LANILAU Poem Source First Line: His 'lani' in leilani was gesture Last Line: The blue eyes had arrived and 'the possibilities were endless Subject(s): Hawaii; Native Americans - Languages; Tongues; Tourists; Travel HA'INA IA MAI ANA KA PUANA: 2. WHEN LAND IS BROKERED LIKE PORK BELLIES, by CAROLYN LEI-LANILAU Poem Source First Line: Lani of leilani is body Last Line: There were possibilities Subject(s): Hawaii; Native Americans; Story-telling; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HALEAKALA, MAUI, by PAUL NELSON Poem Source First Line: Downslope into the crater Subject(s): Maui Island, Hawaii; Volcanoes HAUNTED ISLAND, by CLIFFORD GESSLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a haunted island in the sea Last Line: Come on the northern wind, the bird of death. Subject(s): Hawaii HAWAI'I, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The smell of the sea Last Line: And a long hollow %of mourning %in our ma'I Subject(s): Hawaii HAWAII, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: In hawaii I know Last Line: I am going to write of this beautiful %uniformed island, I warn them. %what a grand idea, they urge Subject(s): Hawaii; Islands; Tourists; Travel HAWAII AND OAHU, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hawaii, with thy sea-washed shore Last Line: Until we meet again. Subject(s): Farewell; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Mountains; Volcanoes; Parting; Oceania; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HAWAII BOUND: 1. TRUTH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: All ashore that's going!' Last Line: Amid an earthquake shock. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Hawaii; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips HAWAII: 1938, by BIM MELGAARD Poem Text First Line: Lewd chanting on the beach; a mongrel tongue Last Line: A threadbare theme to the hawaiian moon. Subject(s): Hawaii HAWAIIAN ISLES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hawaiian isles, like emeralds Last Line: In their fair land of flowers. Subject(s): Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Oceania; Journeys; Trips HAWAIIAN SERENADE, by CLIFFORD GESSLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my kukui flower Last Line: Let us taste, while the tide is high! Subject(s): Hawaii HAWAIIAN TIME, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: What time stay Last Line: No make mention Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific HE'EIA, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the marsh %our lives flood Last Line: Grief %long after moonrise Subject(s): Hawaii HILO'S HOSTELRY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hilo, of thee I often dream! Last Line: And plant it secretly. Subject(s): Guests; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Visiting; Oceania; Journeys; Trips HONOLII: 1894, by PHILIP H. DODGE Poem Text First Line: On banks of honolii Last Line: I would be as full of peace as honolii. Subject(s): Hawaii I KA PO, MELE KANAENAE, by CHARLES W. KENN Poem Text First Line: When day is done, the twilight, the ahiahi Last Line: And then the risen sun, wehe-kaiao. Subject(s): Hawaii IN OUR TIME, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today I went to the grave Last Line: And a silent grief %grieving Subject(s): Hawaii INTERNATIONAL HAWAII, by SHIRLEY LUKE Poem Text First Line: Hawaiians in their hula skirts Last Line: The land of music and the flower lei. Subject(s): Hawaii; Race Awareness ISLES OF HAWAII, by HOWARD VIGNE SUTHERLAND Poem Text First Line: Isles of bewitchment, children of the fire! Last Line: Of waves at dusk to lull your drowsy flowers? Subject(s): Hawaii KAHALA ANGELUS, by LLOYD STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once a week / (I think it's tuesday) Last Line: Could come from such an earthy building. Subject(s): Hawaii KANAKA GIRL, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Trying to find you Last Line: To carry our daughters in Subject(s): Hawaii KAPIOLANI, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Where the great green combers break in thunder on the barrier reefs Last Line: "from this day, thou, lord jehovah, be our one and only god!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Hawaii; Religion; Volcanoes; Theology KAPIOLANI, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from the terrors of nature a people have fashion'd and worship a spirit Last Line: Demon from hawa-I-ee. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hawaii; Kapiolani (hawaiian Chietainess); Volcanoes KAULANA NA PUA, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Morning rains wash Last Line: In the bright glare %of day Subject(s): Hawaii KEOKEA, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black wattles along the edge of the clearing Last Line: How many pearls imelda marcos owns. Subject(s): Hawaii; Maui Island, Hawaii KO'OLAU, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Light in the crevice Last Line: Many-chambered %heavens still %and singing Subject(s): Hawaii KO'OLAULOA, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I ride thoe ridge backs Last Line: Owls swoop %to touch me: %'aumakua Subject(s): Hawaii KU'U PUA I PAOAKALANI (MY FLOWER AT PAOAKALANI), by LYDIA KAMAKAEHA Poem Source First Line: O ye gentle breeze which wafts to me Last Line: That blooms in the feilds of paoakalani Subject(s): Flowers; Hawaii LONG-TERM STRATEGIES, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We can't rape men Last Line: Learn castration %as an art Subject(s): Hawaii LOVE BETWEEN THE TWO OF US, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because I thought the haole Last Line: Do you understand %the nature of this war? Subject(s): Hawaii MAD MORNING MOONLIGHT OF HAWAII, by DOROTHY FAY Poem Text First Line: I leaned from my casement long ere the dim dawn Last Line: Shining, silver shining, evermore, evermore. Subject(s): Hawaii; Night; Bedtime MAKUA KANE, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For a month I wake Last Line: Then take our canoe to sea %with the dying %moon Subject(s): Hawaii MAUI, by THOMAS O'NEIL Poem Source First Line: Fleeing west to catch a setting sun Last Line: And bite the red hibiscus %smiling %eat me Subject(s): Maui Island, Hawaii MAUI: CONCERTO FOR ISLAND AND DEVELOPER, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early riser, victor Last Line: From a shallow grave in the golf course sand trap Subject(s): Maui Island, Hawaii MAUNA LOA, by TOM ROBERT SHIELDS Poem Source First Line: While pacific ocean's %white surf gleams Last Line: Mauna loa gulps - %fire! %long %over- %due Subject(s): Hawaii; Mauna Loa (volcano), Hawaii MELE HOONANEA, by CHARLES W. KENN Poem Text First Line: The flowers of hawaii are beautiful and fragrent Last Line: Clothe both birds and flowers. Subject(s): Flowers; Hawaii MENEHUNE NIGHT, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the menehune night Last Line: I kahiki %kela 'aina I ka moauli Subject(s): Hawaii MISSIONARY GRAVEYARD, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm ono for squid lu'au Last Line: How did you live %till nearly 70? Subject(s): Hawaii MOLOKAI, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heaven's clean space above it and around Last Line: Of tropic life but snow-clad leprosy. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Damien, Father (1840-1889); Leprosy; Molokai, Hawaii; Lepers MOON OVER MANANA, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Water, golden water %gold on black Last Line: Cast up from the deep %burnished and free Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 1, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain rises by itself out of the turning night Last Line: Already invisible beyond the late day Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 10, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farther west and later past currents and tracts of ocean Last Line: Arrived at the sea which by then was called the pacific Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 11, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It had been a long time since anyone on the island Last Line: Directing strange sails to the islands of the ancients Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 12, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An age of passing with nothing appearing to change Last Line: And caught sight of the same things and one of them shouted with fear Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 13, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For three days the sick wind had been reeling into them Last Line: Up the black sides and see the iron waiting everywhere Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 14, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These creatures had long hair tied back so that at first Last Line: And then it was dark and they sat trying to see Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 15, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some stayed there all night watching and others sat Last Line: And were people and had children and died like anyone Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 16, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By then the sick wind had come to an end and they let Last Line: A smaller darkness born a canoe coming toward them Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 17, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black prow broad in the water paddles far to the sides Last Line: To flow around the canoe until it was all around it Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 18, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soundless white thread had not moved in the waterfall Last Line: Their sacrifice and we will watch everything they do Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 19, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So it was still their day their light their shore with those trees Last Line: And turning to the stranger said -- you have a house here Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 2, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There it towered where each of its antecedents Last Line: To a naked place where one day they found company Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 20, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the stranger were a god he would understand Last Line: And he could tell that they thought they understood what was there Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 21, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three times during those days the small canoes came ashore Last Line: Others one by one and they would begin their dying Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 22, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While some were dying the heat was rising around them Last Line: To recover something that had been taken from them Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 23, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late in the month of tangled waves a little more than a year Last Line: On the black islands and were gone when those islands were gone Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 24, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his heart cook had known there was no such passage Last Line: They had died and all with no voice but the breath they groaned with Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 25, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It had been said that they were there merely for the taking Last Line: For the fragrant wood and the payment could be in guns Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 26, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the river above waimea the english Last Line: Of china and guns and ammunition to take home Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 27, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The english supplied him besides with whatever might be Last Line: And all those possessions and weapons into his own ambition Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 28, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a sorcerer is projecting harm in secret Last Line: At nu'uanu when they were all driven over the cliff Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 29, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a time of blood fountains when the chiefs were at war Last Line: And he knew in his fever that it was she who had done this Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 3, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some came from the invisible islands sinking Last Line: Shoots of the taro uncurled and reached for the morning Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 30, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever allowed him to recover did not leave him Last Line: Which involved cornering the traffic in sandalwood Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 31, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most of twenty years it had taken to assemble Last Line: While the ruin went before them and climbed the mountains Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 32, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chiefs bought on credit to be paid in sandalwood Last Line: Sets of china uniforms more things than he could keep track of Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 33, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even so there were those who lived to look back upon Last Line: Summoned late in time to save unknown souls from their lives Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 34, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were allowed to stay for the time being at least Last Line: Given no answers all night as they crossed the channel Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 35, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In honolulu he was treated as a guest of state Last Line: And the missionries kept saying that it meant nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 36, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kaumuali'I's son george after he had returned Last Line: Of the chiefs of kauai to root them out entirely Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 37, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not an impromptu havoc but an ancient Last Line: And thus the sugar business became part of the lord's work Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 38, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since the missionaries on o'ahu had managed Last Line: Had led there to make something out of the waste places Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 39, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not all the new landholders from the islands to windward Last Line: And the ranches of the foreigners spread like a change of climate Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 4, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It had all come late to the first age still without measure Last Line: From the night the time of people coming the time of time Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 40, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the sandalwood trade was shrinking during the years Last Line: By which you would know the places where they had been born Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 5, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came on a wide cloud with three separate floors Last Line: But when they saw the mountain they said it was theirs Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 6, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It looked to them like the world they had come from Last Line: And were still claimed as forbears long after they had vanished Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 7, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And from the southwest in that age came the goddess of fire Last Line: Thought her the most beautiful woman they had ever seen Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 8, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The story was so old that everyone dancing Last Line: In the sound of the drumming at the base of the mountain Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MOUNTAIN: 9, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With pele had come her brother the chief of the sharks Last Line: The skraelings for furs a first touch of a flayed new world Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii MY ISLANDS, by MARY DILLINGHAM FREAR Poem Text First Line: On the edge of the world my islands lie Last Line: Be isles of the blest for aye! Subject(s): Hawaii NA WAHINE NOA, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rise up, women gods Last Line: Flowing volcanoes %toward moonred skies Subject(s): Hawaii NIU, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Head in the earth Last Line: Flush my desire %by cunning display Subject(s): Hawaii ON MAUI ISLE, by J. F. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: The moon-drenched sea is calm tonight Last Line: Than thy night is to me. Subject(s): Maui Island, Hawaii ON THE ROYAL HAWAIIAN LANAI, by FRANCESCA HAWES Poem Text First Line: Guests expectantly await Last Line: Guests depart. Good night, good night. Subject(s): Hawaii PACIFIC DAWN, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: It is spring in hilo, hawaii, Last Line: And the heavy currents of the pacific force themselves into my memory Subject(s): Hawaii PAX AMERICANA: HAWAI'I, 1848, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am always falling Last Line: Only my scream in the homeless wind %and murdered voices Subject(s): Hawaii PEOPLE LOST, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like slaves from another %time, carelessly left Last Line: Lungs, gasping for life %in our native hawaii Subject(s): Hawaii PINK FLAMINGOES, KAANAPALI BEACH, by SUZANNE GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: This manicured stretch of maui coast brings well-heeled tourists Last Line: Like transplanted pink flamingoes Subject(s): Flamingos; Hawaii; Seashore; Tourists POEM NEAR PEARL HARBOR, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angelica, the princess pomponelli Subject(s): Hawaii RACIST WHITE WOMAN, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I could kick %your face, puncture %both eyes Last Line: Comes home %to get you Subject(s): Hawaii REFUSAL, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can't believe it Last Line: Of hawaiian men, lean, handsome %and dead Subject(s): Hawaii RETURNING THE GIFT, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An ocean and a half a continent away Last Line: Of mourning %in our ma'I Subject(s): Hawaii; Native Americans - History SHORE: 1, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shore was what she had always known but could not see Last Line: To kekaha and her mother and her family again Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 10, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pi'ilani's father ho'ona came home later from the mill Last Line: Ho'ona said -- it was friday night he was shot Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 11, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She learned that all the lepers had been taken away Last Line: His name -- you have to see kalua I ko'olau Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 12, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The next day pi'ilani said to ko'olau's father Last Line: And she watched him go down the trail and stood listening Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 13, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then she crept silently down the trail behind him Last Line: And she went on to the house of kelau and keapoulu Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 14, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their house was set in a lap of rock with the cliff behind it Last Line: Can guess sometimes whose they were and sometimes nobody can say Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 15, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half waking again knowing that she was in the valley Last Line: Down there herself and them seeing her as she was now Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Variant Title(s): The Folding Cliffs: Vii. X Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 16, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She tried to say something about that to kawaluna Last Line: Since I am no longer the one who was hiding there Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 17, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now she felt that she was hiding in kekaha Last Line: Why do you think penekila came to tell you Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 18, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said nothing as they rode up out of kekaha Last Line: Down the trail watching him before she turned back to the grave Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 19, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one had been there since she had left it months before Last Line: To hanalei I begin to ask myself where he might be Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 2, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She remembered kaleimanu saying that he was falling Last Line: But not wanting to show herself to them not yet not yet Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Variant Title(s): The Folding Cliffs: Vii. I Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 20, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends down near the bay said they had seen penikila Last Line: And farther away than she had ever seen it Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 21, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even kepola had heard that she had been waiting Last Line: Or made to suffer for anything that had been done Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 22, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So it seemed to have come to a kind of resting place Last Line: It is pi'lani I am here kawaluna was here Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 23, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stream was swollen and loud as she picked her way Last Line: And pi'ilani stared down and saw only the moonlight Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 24, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The life with her mother the old life of kekaha Last Line: What she remembered of that ife that had been there with her Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 25, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho'ona had been living much of the time in waimea Last Line: And then she stood up and said -- I can talk with him Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 26, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho'ona came back two days later and told her Last Line: To a big new house painted gray and stopped at the door Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 27, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho'ona got down and reached back to take her hand Last Line: Holding the old box with all of the things from kekaha Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 28, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs sheldon came and helped her to do the right things Last Line: Of the cliffs of kalalau or something like that Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 29, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He asked her about things that happened before she was born Last Line: But then it is only the story we are listening to Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 3, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then for a while she made her home in the thicket Last Line: And turned to see it all below her in the morning Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 30, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the afternoon ho'ona came to the house Last Line: With plates and melons and a pair of candlesticks Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 31, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most afternoons after that while pi'ilani Last Line: The words she had changed that day when she left the valley Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 32, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One evening mrs sheldon led pi'ilani Last Line: In her left and held still looking angry for her picture Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 33, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr sheldon said that his story was complete Last Line: It was time for all of them to know each other Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 34, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day a man and a boy rode up to the house Last Line: Was the long sand at mana when the tide had gone out Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 35, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When mr sheldon's book was published nalu came from waimea Last Line: Behind their hands like children making up a new game Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 36, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Malukauai said she wanted to meet kepola Last Line: And will you come to see us in kekaha -- kepola asked Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 37, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So they arranged for a visit to kekaha Last Line: As you see we are able to entertain ourselves Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 38, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the time the neighbors had left and the fire had died down Last Line: They heard a flute playing all by itself out in the dark Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 39, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They listened and then the flute stopped and they waited Last Line: Was said to have published in a german newspaper Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 4, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time had vanished since she had stood at the top of the cliff Last Line: The wind at the edge shook her and she turned away Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 40, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their house is built around a courtyard she told me Last Line: Where he told me that some of the words were to crooked for him Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 5, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She went slowly along the trail that followed the cliff Last Line: Was in kalalau somewhere and she tried to think of its name Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 6, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the first light she saw the mist travelling in silence Last Line: To the tamarind tree and her mother's back door Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 7, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a fire burning between rocks and her mother Last Line: When they found no one there and pi'ilani said nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 8, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She woke in the dark again believing that she was nowhere Last Line: And all at once we met kua up there watching the cliff top Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SHORE: 9, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kepola said -- he had come up from halemanu Last Line: Before the government people heard that she had come home Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii SISTERS, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Doves in the rain Last Line: With the spear of memory Subject(s): Hawaii SO TIGHT IS MY LOVE, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Squid squirting his ink %to the stars Subject(s): Hawaii STANZAS FROM MAUI, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE Poem Source First Line: We are deep inside Last Line: Yeah %praise the morning Subject(s): Maui Island, Hawaii THE HAWAIIAN FLIGHT SQUADRON, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: Aslant the dim pacific's drifting breeze Last Line: By nonchalant knight-errants blithely manned. Subject(s): Airships; Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Hawaii; Military; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying THE LIFE OF THE LAND IS ESTABLISHED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, by CLIFFORD GESSLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have taken away their lands and their possessions Last Line: We have taken their land, we can not take their laughter. Subject(s): Hawaii THE VOLCANO HOUSE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Near mauna loa's mountain top Last Line: That wonder land doth seem. Subject(s): Hawaii; Mountains; Volcanoes; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THERE: 1, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was very little there was probably nothing Last Line: As the lines were cast off and the schooner began to move Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 10, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A house still unfinished in a grove of mango trees Last Line: The judge said -- and I will see what else I can find out Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 11, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot say whether I will be going over Last Line: For us to know they would not keep us from finding out Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 12, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The schooner goes whether I am on it or not Last Line: That she was sitting between niuli and pi'ilani Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 13, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He told her of his asking and learning nothing Last Line: It was a boy and small and cried with small voice Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 14, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning shadows pi'ilani and kawaluna Last Line: Laugh and call out to them and he seemed to be a happy child Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 15, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the year after niuli was taken away Last Line: For you to read but I still have no news of your sister Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 16, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The judge said -- when nobody knows it does not prevent Last Line: Kinds of inquiry that the foreigners do not know about Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 17, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In kekaha they knew that ho'ona and the woman Last Line: He was crying and then he added -- this is kealia Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 18, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that girl who looked up at him and then looked away Last Line: And then each of them was standing and singing the same words Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 19, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The singing itself took ko'olau by surprise Last Line: To sing with the others and suddenly his throat grew tight Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 2, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twice fter that ko'olau rode to koloa Last Line: And she told him that reverend rowell was not there Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 20, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of the service when they had filed past Last Line: Wives and husbands and last the one with that hard face Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 21, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That night pi'ilani and ko'olau lay awake Last Line: What truth there is in the stories but I keep hearing them Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 22, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then ko'olau asked about niuli and the judge Last Line: And they helped them into their own houses and took care of them Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 23, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But that was long ago at the beginning -- the judge said Last Line: Dragged away by the constables as your sister was Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Variant Title(s): The Folding Cliffs: Iv. Xxii Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 24, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And besides the priests -- the judge said -- I have been talking Last Line: And I made trouble for him but I am sorry he is gone Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 25, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kaleimanu stayed small and they kept him home at kekaha Last Line: Which hawaiian houses he visited by the back door Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 26, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pi'ilani watched her father when he was with them Last Line: And they would rather have him than be ruled by foreigners Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 27, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new day is upon us -- the judge said to ko'olau Last Line: But judge kauai said -- dignity is not so easy to restore Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 28, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The knudsens had gone up to halemanu for the summer Last Line: And iwa said smiling -- maybe a goat or something Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 29, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As they were riding back down to halemanu Last Line: And knudsen thanked them all and went in by himself Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 3, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He set the box on the horse again and rode around Last Line: To send to her we do not even know where they have put her Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 30, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now they have him tied down hand and foot -- the judge said Last Line: Talking nd trying to understand what had happened Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 31, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pi'ilani woke in the dark and lay listening Last Line: Then from the capital came word of a rebellion Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 32, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho'ona came back from the mill in the morning Last Line: But there are times when that is the best you can hope for Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 33, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ko'olau told lhis family in kekaha Last Line: When weather and other circumstances favored it Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 34, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It did not mean much -- valdemar knudsen said to them Last Line: Would you be so good as to tell him what I have said Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 35, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho'ona arrived in kekaha one day with news Last Line: Mischievous sleeping -- kepola said -- what a shameful thing Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 36, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ko'olau came home they lost no time telling him Last Line: And turned aside in waimea to see the judge again Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 37, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No of course it was nothing like justice -- the judge said Last Line: And he tried to answer her question about them Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 38, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The judge had been sitting there in that same position Last Line: How foolish to come to notice such things out of envy Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 39, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The judge had always liked riding in a carriage Last Line: And said -- of course although it may not be necessary Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 4, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will give it to him -- reverend rowell said -- and we will Last Line: We can send to you with the love of your brother ko'olau Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 40, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It appears to be some kind of dropsy -- the judge said Last Line: Pastor rowell asked you about her -- did he -- the doctor said Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 41, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As they went out the door the doctor said -- your wife will be Last Line: Picked up the judge and started down into the valley Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 5, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You must fold it and put her name on the outside Last Line: But he could think of nothing else and he closed the lid Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 6, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then he was at the door on the rowells' lanai again Last Line: Ko'olau held out the key to him and said -- thank you Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 7, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kawaluna asked him that evening -- what did you do Last Line: Who turned in anger and pulled a young tree to the ground Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 8, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through those days pi'ilani and kawaluna Last Line: Who brought in new cattle sometimes from the boats in koloa Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THERE: 9, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once he had met the man ko'olau kept hearing Last Line: No -- ko'olau said -- we will talk about that too -- the judge told him Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii THIRST, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Barrenness enters %a wooden lance Last Line: We are combustible Subject(s): Hawaii TO PRINCESS KAIULANI, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from her land to mine she goes Last Line: There alone. -- Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Hawaii; Islands; Travel; Journeys; Trips ULU, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come into manhood Last Line: Been devoured by the gods Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 1, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The valley is the mountain split open to windward Last Line: And a stream ran a few steps below the front door Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 10, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the early morning efore he left when they were alone Last Line: And stepped out the door -- a fine day for it -- she said Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 11, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stood watching as he saddled his horse and she saw Last Line: But that he thought I should show it to a doctor Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 12, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he comes out here again -- ko'olau said to her Last Line: And they rode on to dr campbell's office Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 13, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night on the schooner coming back from honolulu Last Line: But he was coming back reaching for hope in the empty dark Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 14, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had managed to obtain one tentative permit Last Line: More effective and humane ways of dealing with this disease Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 15, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But then there was that colleague of trousseau's moritz Last Line: Was to remain a secret for obvious reasons Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 17, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anne had come down from halemanu and the children Last Line: Because I think I disliked him before I even knew him Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 18, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man came to makaweli one morning with a note Last Line: And they both laughed at that and bowed and said good morning Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 19, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knudsen was at the ranch at waiawa with kua Last Line: But I must talk this over with my relative mr gay Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 2, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the word spread from koloa and from hofgaard's store Last Line: Croquet he had learned how they remembered this man Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 20, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a sunday in the autumn when the big mill at kekaha Last Line: With our friends and we all get drunk for our own funeral Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 21, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you think he will come back here then that pokipala Last Line: Pi'ilani said -- we will be there together Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 22, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho'ona and kukui hung ti leaves around the doors Last Line: I will tell kua and we will get the horses for it Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 23, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That first time that she had climbed down the steep crumbling Last Line: To naoheiki's house in the lap of the mountain Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 24, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were hoping you would come over to us -- iwa said Last Line: One by one through the low unlit doorway Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 25, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kalaina drew them through the dark to a soft pile Last Line: And then she heard the unbroken sound of the stream flowing Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 26, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not too clean in there -- naoheiki announced to the world Last Line: Through the knotted features before him the woman he had admired Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 27, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kepola was looking at kaenaku out of Last Line: Past ko'olau's head and saw the gun leaning by the door Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 28, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pi'ilani would look back on those first days in the valley Last Line: Things we need but I have never known such kindness Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 29, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It has been that way since before I came -- the judge said Last Line: That was long ago and probably was made up Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 3, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In hawaii on his way to samoa and the hill Last Line: The man who tried to do what damien did is my father Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 30, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They keep telling me that we are their family -- the judge said Last Line: Ko'olau -- he said and embraced him -- you have come to stay Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 31, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She remembered that it was only a few days after Last Line: But our own sanford dole from koloa that ruthless prig Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 32, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son is a good boy -- the judge said -- he has sent all these Last Line: To pi'ilani that nothing had changed except in their voices Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 33, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the new year at the new roll-top desk in his office Last Line: Where ko'olau had gone and when and who was with him Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 34, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So whatever thought he might have had of using ko'olau Last Line: I would be pleased to receive any orders or advice Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 35, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But other questions of authority were occupying Last Line: To know the quantity and kind of firearms in their possession Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 36, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stolz sent an answer by the next steamer respectfully Last Line: A canoe to take him around under the cliffs to the valley Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 37, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was cold up at the head of the valley among the rocks Last Line: Yes yes as he stood there looking at everything Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 38, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And where is ko'olau -- he sked finally and she said Last Line: To moloka'I and will not let you come with us Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 39, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is some time -- the judge said to stolz -- since you lit up Last Line: The judge answered -- watch out for your head s you leave Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 4, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His open letter was published on kauai in Last Line: Issued by the board of health and in hofgaard's store Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 40, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hon w d smith pres bd of health honolulu Last Line: Into the tangle of ravines up at the foot of the cliffs Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Variant Title(s): The Folding Cliffs: V. Xxx Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 5, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It depended to some degree on who might be listening Last Line: Myself -- and he rode off with the dogs barking after him Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 6, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As she turned in the doorway she saw kawaluna Last Line: And he said you can look at the drawing and think about it Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 7, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up beyond halemanu riding the mountain with kua Last Line: But others never thought that way and stolz is one of those Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 8, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is better if they go out in the evening Last Line: But before mr stolz left he had agreed on a day Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii VALLEY: 9, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dry still days of later summer and the beginning Last Line: We should all be wearing hats -- ko'olau said and they laughed Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Hawaii WAIKIKI, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree Last Line: Waikiki, 1913 Subject(s): Hawaii; Soldiers' Writings WAIKIKI, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All those 5 gallon Last Line: The onslaught of barbarians Subject(s): Hawaii WAIKIKI HOUSE, by J. F. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: It's very small, my little house Last Line: By three hawaiian boys. Subject(s): Houses; Waikiki, Hawaii WAIKIKI WISH, by J. F. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: In all the days of your tomorrows Last Line: May you remember these. Subject(s): Waikiki, Hawaii; Wishes WAIKIKI: DECEMBER, by BIM MELGAARD Poem Text First Line: One surfboard on the beach Last Line: From the forgotten surfboard. Subject(s): Waikiki, Hawaii WAIKIKI: EVENING, by BIM MELGAARD Poem Text First Line: Swimmer in twilight Last Line: To the horizon. Subject(s): Waikiki, Hawaii WAIMANALO MORNING, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Deepens, erect %with purple Last Line: Penetrating %the carnal sea %with lightning Subject(s): Hawaii WHEN THE RAIN COMES, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That she may see %and take you Subject(s): Hawaii WHISPERINGS, by HOWARD VIGNE SUTHERLAND Poem Text First Line: Palm leaves, slender and beautiful palm leaves Last Line: The memories your music wakes in them? Subject(s): Hawaii WOMAN, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you drawn Last Line: To be raw %swift %and deadly Subject(s): Hawaii YOU WILL BE UNDARKENED, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To keep you translucent %forever Subject(s): Hawaii |
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