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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HURRICANES Matches Found: 34 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER THE HURRICANE, by JAMES APPLEWHITE Poem Source First Line: The hurricane tipped oaks over in ranks Last Line: We're offered, this being, together Subject(s): Hurricanes AFTER THE HURRICANE, by HENRY DUNCAN CHISHOLM Poem Text First Line: The pines that rimmed our world, massed high upon Last Line: New hills, and low and bright another star. Subject(s): Hurricanes; Pine Trees; Sun; Trees AN INTERNATIONAL EPISODE (1889), by CAROLINE KING DUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were ordered to samoa from the coast of panama Last Line: Judge if we do not love each other well. Subject(s): Americans In Oceania; Apia Bay, Samoan Islands; Disasters; Hurricanes; Shipwrecks BLACKOUT, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: Bill the hurricane is standing on my roof Last Line: But this black wall of water, this ocean %tipped on its side Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Hurricanes; Nature; Rain; Weather DEAD CENTER, by MICHAEL CAREY Poem Source First Line: He didn't know why he did it, he just did. There were seven tornadoes Last Line: Grass and a fading terror and the rush of blood in the urge to be lifted Subject(s): Disasters; Hurricanes; Weather; Wind DOROTHY, by MELISSA MORPHEW Poem Source First Line: Wrist deep in biscuit dough, a dusting of flour Last Line: Some hand-me-down clothes, a pasture %full of bitterweed and daisies Subject(s): Dreams; Fairy Tales; Hurricanes; Kansas HEAVED FROM THE EARTH, by BESMILR BRIGHAM Poem Source First Line: After the tornado, a dead moccasin Last Line: Pushing the fire thorns in Subject(s): Disasters; Earth; Hurricanes; Storms; Thunder HOW THE MOUNTAINS TALK, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: One day to tupungato came a sound from far away Last Line: And, with a crash of breaking rocks, replied, 'the two %are one!' Subject(s): Hurricanes; Mountains HURRICANE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At twilight / the leaves of palmettos screeching like cicadas Last Line: The ox beetle gores up through blown sand. Subject(s): Hurricanes; Loss; Weather HURRICANE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, lord, thou ridest! Last Line: Thou ridest to the door, lord! %thou bidest wall nor floor, lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Hurricanes HURRICANE, by ELSIE TAYLOR DUTRIEUILLE Poem Text First Line: How strange to sit in this fantastic place Last Line: Look where the hurricane has fought -- and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Trieuille, Elsie Taylor Subject(s): Hurricanes HURRICANE, by JOSE MARIA DE+(1) HEREDIA Poem Source First Line: Lord of the winds! I feel thee nigh Last Line: Alone with the terrible hurricane Subject(s): Hurricanes; Sailors And Sailing; Wind HURRICANE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It didn't behave Subject(s): Hurricanes HURRICANE, by LUIS PALES MATOS Poem Source First Line: When the hurricane unfolds Last Line: With the scattered branches, of the palm Subject(s): Hurricanes; Negritude (literary Movement) HURRICANE IN AUGUST, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: We had been short in the grain Last Line: We sifted life grain by grain %and divided the gourds Subject(s): August; Hurricanes ICELANDIC HURRICANE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No earth tremor, but a skyquake. Turner could have painted it, secured by rope Subject(s): Hurricanes IN APIA BAY, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ruin and death held sway Last Line: Of splendid chivalry and valor high! Subject(s): Apia Bay, Samoan Islands; Courage; Disasters; Hurricanes; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery NEW ENGLAND HURRICANE, by CATHERINE M. COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Not everyone can know the quiet despair Last Line: Of dying leaves -- a sound that cannot die. Subject(s): Hurricanes ON THE WATERFRONT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lollin' on a dock-pile, pipe a-draggin' slow Last Line: All the ships upon the sea, an' all the things I know! Subject(s): Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean ON THE WIRE, by R. D. PATRICK Poem Source First Line: After the storm Last Line: The end of the hurricane brings Subject(s): Hurricanes PAYING ATTENTION, by ROBERT PARHAM Poem Source First Line: News of a hurricane Last Line: Discern destruction %with simple obedience Subject(s): Hurricanes PROVIDENCE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What's left is footage: the hours before Subject(s): Hurricanes THE FAR BLUE HILLS, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: I lift my eyes and ye are ever there Last Line: O far blue hills. Subject(s): Hurricanes; Spirituality; Titans (mythology) THE HOUR BEFORE THE HURRICANE, by EDNA WORTHLEY UNDERWOOD Poem Text First Line: Sad, shaken, this - the field of proserpine Last Line: And storm -- and night -- blot out the carib sea. Subject(s): Hurricanes; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE HURRICAN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tree lay down Subject(s): Hurricanes; Trees THE HURRICANE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of the winds! I feel thee nigh Last Line: Alone with the terrible hurricane. Subject(s): Hurricanes; Nature THE HURRICANE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who, safe on shore Last Line: And ruin is the lot of all. Subject(s): Hurricanes; Sea; Ocean THE SEPTEMBER GALE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm not a chicken; I have seen Last Line: My loved, my long-lost breeches! Subject(s): Hurricanes THE STORM, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the stone breakwater, Subject(s): Hurricanes THE WRECK OF THE 'ABERCROMBIE ROBINSON', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1842 and on the 27th of may Last Line: Likewise captain bertie gordon, who behaved so heroically. Subject(s): Disasters; Heroism; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Heroes; Heroines THE WRECK OF THE BARQUE 'LYNTON' WHILE BOUND FOR ASPINWALL, HAVING ON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad tale of the sea, I will unfold Last Line: A day which the survivors will long remember. Subject(s): Disasters; Hurricanes; Shipwrecks; Survival; Weather THE WRECK OF THE BARQUE 'WM. PATERSON,' OF LIVERPOOL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye landsmen all attend my verse, and I'll tell to ye a tale Last Line: "and in particular for fetching the crew of the ""wm. Paterson"" safe to dundee" Subject(s): Disasters; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Waves; Ocean TO A LADY ON HER REMARKABLE PRESERVATION IN AN HURRICANE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though thou did'st hear the tempest from afar Last Line: And what the blessings of maternal care! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Americans; Hurricanes; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; United States; America WRECK OF THE SCHOONER 'SAMUEL CRAWFORD.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of november Last Line: And to take the last look of their schooner in a blaze. Subject(s): Cold; Disasters; Hunger; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Snow; Survival; Wind |
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