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Subject: HEAT
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First Line: The ship moves
Subject(s): Shi-ps & Shipping; Heat


A DESERT DAY, by ALMA LACOCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heat waves above the desert gleam as bright
Last Line: With worlds just cast from god's creative hand.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


A SUNSET BREEZE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All of the livelong day there was scarcely a rustle of leaves
Last Line: And lo, as the mother knelt, the baby smiled in its sleep!
Subject(s): Evening; Heat; Sunset; Twilight


A WATCHED POT, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not / to mark the first
Last Line: Bottom can give rise to
Subject(s): Heat


AMORETTI: 32, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The painful smith with force of fervent heat
Last Line: And she to stones at length all frosen turne?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Heat; Cold; Despair


AN AUTUMN CAROL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, our hearts are aglow with contentment
Last Line: For there 's heat in the steam-pipes to-day!
Subject(s): Autumn; Cold; Heat; Landlords & Tenants; Seasons; Fall


ANOTHER SUMMER DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A dewdrop sparkled in the sun
Last Line: Another summer day.
Subject(s): Happiness; Heat; Seasons; Summer; Sun; Joy; Delight


AT NINETY IN THE SHADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hot weather? Yes; but really not
Last Line: Compared with weather twice as hot!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Heat; Summer; Weather


BENT TONES, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a dance at the black school
Last Line: She could see floyd little %changing his shirt for the umpteenth time
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): African Americans; Heat; Poverty


COOL WEB, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Children are dumb to say how hot the day is
Last Line: Facing the rose, the dark sky and the drums, %we shall go mad no doubt and die that way
Subject(s): Heat; Language


DESERT PARABLE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Miles above them, miles below
Last Line: Than night
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Canyons; Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat


DESERT SCULPTURES, by HENRY J. MORRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: We go back to the desert
Last Line: Our sweat %carving the earth
Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food And Eating; Heat; Sun


DROUGHT, by SALLY LOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My first summer of marriage
Last Line: Until my husband trapped it, then let it go
Subject(s): Drought; Heat; Marriage; Summer


FIRE, by DUANE ACKERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once, fire was used to put out water. When a house was drowning
Last Line: Lightning bolt that breaks for enough fire to water our gardens
Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Fire; Heat; Lightning


FIRESIDE, by JAMES BINNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A fire is such a thing as might be known
Last Line: Content with warmth and safety from the years.
Subject(s): Contentment; Fireplaces; Heat


FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: However lonely we were before / becomes unclear
Last Line: By setting-free the soil
Subject(s): Farm Life; Heat; Middle West; Oklahoma; Summer; Weather; Agriculture; Farmers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States


GARDEN: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O wind, rend open the heat
Last Line: Of your path.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Variant Title(s): Heat
Subject(s): Bible; Gardens & Gardening; Heat


HAIKU, by GERALD VIZENOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: August heat
Last Line: Sits by the fan
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT, by PAMELA ALEXANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It clings to us,
Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam
Subject(s): Heat; Heat


HEAT, by PAMELA ALEXANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It clings to us
Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT, by J. REDWOOD ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The heat was like a solid thing
Last Line: And not a burning ball of steel %that weighed the whole world down
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT, by PAUL BLACKBURN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the sun for days
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT, by LAUREL ANN BOGEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I pace in the shadows
Last Line: In this heat %in this night %where I cannot smell the jasmine
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT, by OLGA CABRAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun fires my bones
Last Line: I am not empty %I am filled with time
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today is more arduous than the inferno
Last Line: No blindness from the torture of the light
Subject(s): Heat; Sun


HEAT, by GILBERTO GONZALEZ Y CONTRERAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tropical mid-day. Indolence
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT, by NICOLAS GUILLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heat breaks the night
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT, by SUSAN HAHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soon the dazed glory heat will be replaced by leaves -
Last Line: Touch how it burns into my sight %for when you are not
Subject(s): Heat; Seasons; Summer


HEAT, by MICHAEL HETTICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit in shade
Last Line: And he laughs
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From plains that reel to southward, dim
Last Line: My thoughts grow keen and clear.
Subject(s): Heat; Summer


HEAT, by VALERIE LINET    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun rises in my mouth
Last Line: Behind the horizon of my tongue
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT, by KENNETH MACKENZIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Well, this is where I go down to the river
Last Line: That heat would be arrested on its shore
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT, by MARGARET MCGARVEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heat holds the lowlands now
Last Line: Still as under glass.
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT, by KAY RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a heat
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT, by KAY RYAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a heat
Last Line: For when the warming %starts
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT, by DEBORAH STEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hot boys, she says, are sweet in the summertime
Last Line: Sweat gleaming just beneath their skin
Subject(s): Heat; High School Students; Passion; Teenagers


HEAT, by PAMELA STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was little and summer dredged my skin
Last Line: Drink. But something I can't say is missing
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT (2), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cloudless sky and pitiless sun
Last Line: How little we know of the pain that's borne %for the bread we eat and our yellow corn
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT WAVE, by KATHLEEN SUTTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dawn lifts a brazen head above the hill
Last Line: Summer is old; it will not sing again.
Subject(s): Heat


HEAT, 1994, by CHRISTINE E. MONTROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In sarajevo they are burning books
Last Line: Offering herself instead, wishing she could burn
Subject(s): Books; Heat; Sarajevo, Bosnia


HEATWAVE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By ten we know the day is out of order
Last Line: All given to being, a gentler way to die
Subject(s): Heat


HIGH NOON AT LOS ALAMOS, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To turn a stone / with its white squirming
Last Line: For the silence
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Fire; Heat; Noon; Solitude; Sun; Loneliness


HOT STAGNANT EVENING, by JULES LAFORGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One's feet are baking, one can feel the arteries throbbing in one's ankles
Last Line: Or a flower in the chintz of the bare prim parlor of an old maid in quimper - or a heron
Subject(s): Dreams; Heat


HOT WEATHER IMAGININGS, by T. R.    Poem Text                    
First Line: I feigned a fountain, mossy-lipped
Last Line: There never came a breeze!)
Subject(s): Dreams; Heat; Mirages; Nightmares


HOW PALESTINIANS KEEP WARM, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Choose one word and say it over
Last Line: And when your shawl is as thin as mine is, you tell stories.
Subject(s): Heat; Language; Palestine; Story-telling; Words; Vocabulary


IN HEAT, by KEVIN BOYLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The summer heats past luxuriance, the day lilies
Last Line: Those little black eyes don't flinch. Just fire
Subject(s): Heat; Summer


IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY, SELECTION, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We may not fail in zeal, nor effort shirk,
Last Line: We hear the rustle of a started thrush.
Subject(s): Heat


IN THE MONTH OF GREAT HEAT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It is time to leave'
Subject(s): Crickets; Heat


INVOCATION; WRITTEN ON A VERY HOT DAY IN AUGUST, by HANNAH COWLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cooling zephyrs haste away
Last Line: But dart, with vigour, to my arms!
Alternate Author Name(s): Matilda, Anna; Parkhouse, Hannah
Subject(s): Heat; Travel; Wind; Journeys; Trips


IT IS TOO HOT, by PETER PAYACK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: It is too hot', she said
Subject(s): Heat


JANUARY, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After days of putting down my poem
Subject(s): Heat


JANUARY, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After days of putting down my poem
Last Line: Since I am the one who keeps the fire
Subject(s): Heat


LIMERICK, by TUDOR JENKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a very warm day,' observed billy
Last Line: "if one were a coolie in chile!"
Subject(s): Heat


MEMORIAL IN FLAME, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I might write of you in flame
Last Line: From lost days, in an old gray sack.
Subject(s): Heat


MUSIC ON THE DESERT, by KATHERINE NICHOLS OWSLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tumble-weeds whirl happily and spin
Last Line: To the sudden drumming of the rain.
Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat; Sun


NINETY-NINE IN THE SHADE, by ROSSITER JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers!
Last Line: And deepens the chill of its dark-running wave.
Subject(s): Cold; Heat; Weather


NOON QUATRAINS, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day grows hot, and darts his rays
Last Line: We may again enjoy the day.
Subject(s): Heat; Noon


ON FIRE, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It begins as combustion, this making of heat and light
Last Line: The remnants of a life rise up, sunlight %descending into trees
Subject(s): Fire; Hallucinations And Illusions; Heat


PARIS BY DAY, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: See the great circle of copper shine above
Last Line: Our special sustenance is our flask of gall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Day; Heat; Paris, France; Poetry & Poets - French; Sun


PHILOSOPHY IN WARM WEATHER, by JANE KENYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now all the doors and windows
Last Line: Pulling up the corn
Subject(s): Heat


PICTURES OF THE SOUTHWEST: HEAT, by ELIZABETH KING COWGILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Naked heat devils
Last Line: Like demons paroled from hell.
Subject(s): Heat; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


PURA VIDA, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such heat! It brings the brain back to its basic blank
Subject(s): Heat; Mnd, The


SANARY, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her little hot room looked over the bay
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Heat


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA ON THE HISTORY OF HEAT, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old ones felt it as part
Last Line: Flesh and bone conduct all too well
Subject(s): Heat


SONIC RELATIONS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the space of an ear
Last Line: He gathered round her %her warmth her terrible warmth
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Heat; Talk


STILL HEAT, by GRACE CONNER HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hot night lowers a heavy blotter
Last Line: On a tin roof.
Subject(s): Heat


SUMMER AFTERNOON, by MAY HOWARD MCEACHERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The day, quite overcome with heat
Last Line: To sprinkle them, she laughed aloud!
Subject(s): Heat


SUMMER HEAT, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give over to the sun
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Heat; Summer


SUN AND DUST, by RICARDO PALMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a swift whirlwind rises to the sky
Last Line: Immortal is its light
Subject(s): Happiness; Heat; Immortality; Light; Sun


SUN SPOTS, by LAURA D. NICHOLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A yellow snake senses heat %and sheds skin in a rock crevice
Last Line: Passing through close coral %in and out of sun spots
Subject(s): Heat; Seashore; Sun; Waves


THE AMERICAN FIREMAN, by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A clamor and clatter of galloping hoofs
Last Line: Had half such a guerdon won.
Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Heat; Smoke; Water


THE BEAUTIFUL SUN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful sun! With thy golden rays
Last Line: In our prayers every morning and night!
Subject(s): Happiness; Heat; Praise; Sun; Joy; Delight


THE COOL WEB, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Children are dumb to say how hot the day is
Subject(s): Heat; Language; Words; Vocabulary


THE FIRE, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Near the house flowed, or paused, the black / canal
Last Line: Men that defeated ruinous angels and shall still defeat.
Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Heat; Smoke


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 118, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The month when farmers escape the heat
Last Line: Sumeru is just a pea
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Drinks & Drinking; Farm Life; Heat; Wine; Agriculture; Farmers


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 182, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No matter how lofty your spirit
Last Line: You'll be no warmer than ice
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Heat; Money


THE PRAYER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The slender leaves of the acacia trees
Last Line: And laid his unvoiced grief on allah's heart.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat; Mercy; Prayer


THE SIMPLE LIFE - ON SIDEWALKS; APRIL 1906, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A lady, dainty, young, and fair
Last Line: Was worth the burdens it disguised.
Subject(s): Firefighters; Heat; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke


THE SPIRIT OF THE DESERT, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: An indian rides across the plain
Last Line: They fade into the desert-dearth.
Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat


TO THE COLORADO DESERT, by MADGE MORRIS WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou brown, bare-breasted, voiceless mystery
Last Line: God must have made thee in his anger and forgot.
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Desert Animals; Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat


TO THE SUMMER SUN (CORONADO), by MARGUERITE WILKINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great sun, why are you pitiless?
Last Line: That I may miss you for a day!
Subject(s): Heat; Summer; Sun


VERY HOT DAY, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know what's going to happen
Subject(s): Ice; Heat