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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ISLANDS Matches Found: 210 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SEA-CHANTEY, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: La, tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute Subject(s): West Indies; Caribbean Islands A SONG OF PITCAIRN'S ISLAND, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, take our boy, and we will go Last Line: This sweet lone isle amid the sea. Subject(s): Pitcairn Islands AEGEAN ISLANDS 1940-41, by BERNARD SPENCER Poem Source First Line: Where white, stares, smokes or breaks Subject(s): Aegean Sea; Islands AERIAL VIEW, by ALEXANDRA GRILIKHES Poem Source First Line: The island spreads itself out Last Line: In the sun of late afternoon, fog at night Subject(s): Air Travel; Islands ALIEN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The foreign woman %asks for a drink Last Line: Tattoos of her %sorrows Subject(s): Exiles; Islands; Maps; Tourists; Travel ALOHA, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know a little island Subject(s): Islands 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 AN ISLAND, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dream is of an island-place Last Line: When god's great sunrise finds him out? Subject(s): Islands AN ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR AS IT WAS SUNG BEFORE HIS MAJESTY, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Lift up thy hoary head, and rise Last Line: Britannia is a brunswick's care. Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Government; Politics & Government; South Sea Islands; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ARAN, by DEREK MAHON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is earthed to his girl, one hand fastened Subject(s): Aran Islands, Ireland; Love ARAN, by SEAN O'FAOLAIN Poem Source First Line: Aran of the many stags Subject(s): Aran Islands, Ireland ARIEL AND CALIBAN, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So - prospero is gone - and I am free Last Line: "I dreamed and fancied. He awoke and saw!" Subject(s): Islands; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Prisons & Prisoners; Supernatural; Dramatists; Convicts ARRAN (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Arran of the many stags Last Line: Seagulls answer around her white cliffs, %fair each season of arran Subject(s): Islands ARRAN (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Arran with deer droves running Last Line: Round the scarp seagulls screaming %each dreaming hour in arran. Arran Subject(s): Islands ARRAN (3), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Arrran of the many stags Subject(s): Islands ARS POETICA: OR: WHO LIVES IN THE IVORY TOWER?, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps you'd like a marching song for the embattled proletariat ... Last Line: Your feet are muddy, you son-of-a-bitch, get out of our ivory tower Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Poetry & Poets; South Sea Islands; Movies; Cinema ATLANTIC DISPATCHES, 1982, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: The new governor assures the islanders Last Line: Then resume their place on street corners %and in the queues outside the employment offices Subject(s): Falkland Islands War (1982); Thatcher, Margaret (b.1925) AUTUMN ON THE UMPQUA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: The sun is peeking o'er the edge Last Line: When autumn comes in oregon! Subject(s): Islands; Oregon; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States AZURE ISLANDS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shipmen, sailing by night and day Last Line: One of thy murmuring fountains. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean BAHAMAS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down there in those islands Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Bahamas; Islands BAHAMAS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down there in those islands Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Bahamas; Islands BAHAMAS, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are we Subject(s): Bahamas; Islands; Sea; Ocean BAHAMAS, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are we Last Line: Of the atlantic, and the blinding glitter %of the sea Subject(s): Bahamas; Islands; Sea BAHAMAS, by ANDREA WYATT Poem Source First Line: Unless their fists were filled with pearls Subject(s): Bahamas; Islands BEYOND KERGUELEN, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the south, by the waste without sail Last Line: Moans in the south by the ghost of a sea. Subject(s): Kerguelen (islands), Indian Ocean BIRTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Where the shannon meets the sea Last Line: Pity is born Subject(s): Birth; Islands; Piety; Pity; Shannon (river), Ireland BLUE BOOBY, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue booby lives %on the bare rocks Last Line: Like the eyes of a mild savior Subject(s): Birds; Galapagos Islands CALEDONIA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair caledonia! Honoured name Last Line: And freedom bless and crown our isle! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Freedom; Islands; Scotland; Victory; Liberty CALEDONIA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy name, caledonia! Queen of the north! Last Line: Tis the spirit of evil incarnate in drink. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Europe; Freedom; Islands; Scotland; Victory; Liberty CANADIAN BOAT SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Fair these broad meads - these hoary woods are grand Last Line: Beat heavily beyond the atlantic roar Subject(s): "hebrides (islands), Scotland; CANTO 9; THE GREAT TURTLE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When fierce beset with dire alarms Last Line: A charnel house of human bones. Subject(s): Hate; Islands; Mythology; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CELEBRATION FOR JUNE 24, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before you, I was living on an island Last Line: And love is never love, that cannot give love up Subject(s): Islands; June; Love CEMETERY ISLAND, by JOHN DRURY Poem Source First Line: Still rocking from the vaporetto ride Last Line: And sparrows comment with their quietest calls Subject(s): Cemeteries; Islands CHOOSING A PROFESSION, by MARY LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A creole boy from the west indies brought Last Line: Were dancing in the street the first of may. Subject(s): Boys; Careers; West Indies; Caribbean Islands CLIFF HOUSE, ORKNEY ISLES, by GILLIAN FERGUSON Poem Source First Line: Stone hs rounded Last Line: Under landless stars Subject(s): Orkney Islands (scotland) CLOSING TIME AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOO, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The keepers / walk among galapagos turtles Last Line: In the san diego dusk. Subject(s): Caregivers; Galapagos Islands; Turtles; Zoos; Tortoises COLE'S ISLAND, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met death -- he was a sportsman -- on cole's Last Line: Account I can give, of the encounter Subject(s): Death; Islands CORONADO, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the beach at coronado curves the shore in crescent wise Last Line: Curves to met the benediction of the californian skies. Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Night; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Stars; Nightmares; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore DECEPTION PASS; FOR JUDY AND MARK KAWASAKI, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is very high here Last Line: Lingers upon this thigh of tide. Subject(s): Islands; Nature DIFFERENT POEM, by ONESIMA SILVEIRA Poem Source First Line: The people of the islands want a different poem Last Line: And the fantasy of the main compass points Subject(s): Cape Verde Islands ELEGIAC SONNET: 51. SUPPOSED ... WRITTEN IN THE HEBRIDES, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this lone island, whose unfruitful breast Last Line: Thy mind my empire -- and my throne thy heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Hebrides (islands), Scotland ELEGIAC SONNET: 52. THE PILGRIM, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faltering and sad the unhappy pilgrim roves Last Line: That, trembling at the past -- recoils from future woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Hebrides (islands), Scotland ELEGIAC SONNET: 53. THE LAPLANDER, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shivering native who, by tenglio's side Last Line: For him those beams of heaven shall never shine again. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Hebrides (islands), Scotland ELEGY FOR THE WELSH DEAD, IN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS, 1982, by ANTHONY CONRAN Poem Source First Line: Men went to catraeth. The luxury liner Last Line: Figment of empire, whore's honour, held them. %forty-three at catraeth died for our dregs Subject(s): Falkland Islands FAIR ISLE AT SEA - THY LOVELY NAME, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I touched at isles of paradise Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Islands FAR OVER SEAS AN ISLAND IS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Down the desired creek Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Islands 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 FAREWELL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, and when forth Last Line: Sail, a hopeless sailor? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean FINLANDIA, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: I follow you through Last Line: To breathe the miracle alone Subject(s): Absence; Finland; Islands; Solitude; Travel GERANIUM AND THE CHILD, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: Inside those caves, grottos full of shame, full of mud, a child is still taking Last Line: The child telling, alone, the story of the cart of geraniums put out on sale on earth at night Subject(s): Islands; Sailors And Sailing GLADYS AND HER ISLAND; AN IMPERFECT TALE WITH DOUBTFUL MORAL, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy gladys! I rejoice with her Last Line: And mind your english. Subject(s): Fables; Heroism; Islands; Story-telling; Tears; Youth; Allegories; Heroes; Heroines GREEN ISLE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the sort of country that Last Line: In that stale parlour with the zest %and freedom of a great poet Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Islands GULLAH NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by VIRGINIA MIXSON GERATY Poem Source First Line: E bin de night befo' chris'mus en' eenside we house Last Line: Stillyet dey say uh pray fuh po' ole buh fox Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas; Gullahs; Santa Claus; Sea Islands Creole Dialect 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: 2. POETRY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Once more the sun is shining Last Line: Defy the sea again! Subject(s): Guests; Harbors; Honolulu; Islands; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips 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 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 HEAVEN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish (fly-replete, in depth of june Last Line: There shall be no more land, say fish. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Soldiers' Writings; South Sea Islands; Anglers HENRY THE HERMIT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a little island where he dwelt Last Line: The lamp that stream'd a long unsteady light. Subject(s): Aging; Bells; Death; Hermits; Islands; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness 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 HYALI, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Island in blue of summer floating on Last Line: And like thy rocks shall down through time endure. Subject(s): Aegean Sea; Greece; Islands; Greeks IDOLS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They made them idols in the elder days Last Line: Salute the mystery beyond their ken. Subject(s): God; Idols; South Sea Islands IF, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt what thou art, and what thou wouldst be, let Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Life; Love; Winter; Nightmares IF ONCE YOU HAVE SLEPT ON AN ISLAND, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You'll never be quite the same! Subject(s): Islands 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 IN IRELAND: 1. ON INISHMAAN: ISLES OF ARAN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the twilight of the year Last Line: The grey sea's, in its low sighing. Subject(s): Aran Islands, Ireland IN LATE SUMMER, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Twilight: the last ferry leaves vancouver Last Line: They knew were out there, %willing them to appear Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Islands IN ORKNAY, by WILLIAM FOWLER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Upon the utmost corners of the warld Last Line: I change bot seas, bot cannot change my love. Subject(s): Orkney Islands (scotland) IN THE OASIS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a paradise of trees Last Line: Within my mind these memories are. Subject(s): Islands; Kindness; Oases; Sea Voyages INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE CALEDONIAN CANAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Athwart the island here, from sea to sea Last Line: Opening a passage through the wilds subdued. Subject(s): Canals; Earth; Islands; Sea; Travel; World; Ocean; Journeys; Trips INVISIBILITY 0, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: Planets of air Last Line: Of the faithful pupils Subject(s): Earth; Islands; Vacation ISLAND, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Here the island is complete. The edges of the hard brick buildings are Last Line: Hope lingering in a time well after his death Subject(s): African Americans; Islands; Jazz; Music And Musicians ISLAND, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And god said, I will build a church here Last Line: And that was only on one island Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Islands ISLAND, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glorious morning, the sun still mild on the eastward hills, the hills still Last Line: Another swell sweeps across the still-calm bay; everything ripples, everything holds Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Islands; Morning ISLAND BORN (2), by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother loved the way of ships that go Last Line: It was not strange an island was my home. Subject(s): Islands; Sea; Ocean ISLAND FEVER, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Here where it is always summer Last Line: I hold it against my forehead Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Islands; Seashore; Summer ISLAND IN LAND, by BOGOMIL GJUZEL Poem Source First Line: Who claims we have no sea? Last Line: What else could explain why the sea is so unfit to drink? Subject(s): Islands; Sea ISLAND IN THE EARTH, by SARA DE IBANEZ Poem Source First Line: To the north, the cold and its broken jasmine Last Line: My dry island in the midst of the battle Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Islands ISLAND OF WOMEN, by JUNE MCGLASHAN Poem Source First Line: In the mid-1880's Last Line: Species left of the %great sea-dwellers Subject(s): Aleutian Islands; Women ISLAND WOMAN, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: It wasn't just the building of a bridge Last Line: My breasts are warts. I never crossed the bridge Subject(s): Islands ISLANDER, by ALICE LAWRY GOULD Poem Text First Line: Many have felt the lure and fantasy Last Line: Who can know islands like the island-born? Subject(s): Fantasy; Islands; Secrets ISLANDIS, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: This is the taste of the Last Line: Wearing crowns of %bird gone feathers Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Islands; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel ISLANDS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm as a good wife Last Line: Astonished lovers whispering, %what happens next? Subject(s): Arabs; Islands; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sea ISLANDS, by LESLIE NORRIS Poem Source First Line: Summer's first day, earlier Last Line: Keep them floating, with my breath Subject(s): Islands; Summer ISLANDS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Islands ISLANDS IN BOSTON HARBOR, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How many islands in the bay? Last Line: And everywhere - the sea, the sea! Subject(s): Boston; Islands ISLANDS IN PENOBSCOT BAY, by MARSDEN HARTLEY Poem Source First Line: Here they sit Subject(s): Islands ISOLA COMACINA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There sleeps beneath italian skies Last Line: May all the gods be good to thee! Subject(s): Future; Islands; Italy; Past; Italians JEKYL ISLAND; EBB TIDE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fading light on a lonely beach Last Line: And frets the silted sand. Subject(s): Islands; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore L'ENVOI TO E.W.G., by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each in the self-same field we glean Last Line: And lighter-hearted than voltaire. Subject(s): Islands; Sea Voyages; Travel; Journeys; Trips LA GRENOUILLERE, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the island's edge Last Line: Little boats you make me feel really sad %at the island's edge Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Islands LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 5. THE LOCH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among those mountain-skirts a league away Last Line: Amongst whose watery stems the mallard feeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Fields; Islands; Mountains; Travel; Water; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips LINDISFARNE, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O rocky the islet Last Line: "made one with the land!" Subject(s): Tides; Islands LINDY-GRAMS: 1. LINDY'S FLIGHT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Straight as a bird upon its course Last Line: Shall seldom see again. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Islands; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974); Sky; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying; Journeys; Trips LINES WRITTEN IN THE ISLE OF BUTE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere yet dim twilight brighten'd into day Last Line: Thy rothesay's lovely bay. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Islands; Poetry & Poets LIONEL AND LUCILLE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In the beautiful castleton island a mansion of lordly style Last Line: She had married a count -- some pole with an unpronounceable name. Subject(s): Islands; Life; Love; Mansions LOVE'S ISLAND, by DOKU-HO Poem Text First Line: An island in an inland sea Last Line: "thou little island in the sea!" Subject(s): Islands MANHATTAN MALADY, by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: Subway-streptococci / tear through the entrails Last Line: On that long-gone september afternoon? Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Islands MAPS, by ALBERTO BLANCO Poem Source First Line: Let's start at the beginning Last Line: Nothing has set foot in a map %nothing is written in poetry Subject(s): Geography; Islands; Maps; Travel MARTINIQUE, by CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER Poem Text First Line: Great cone-shaped mountains rising from a stream Last Line: Trailed on the wind the spice of carib seas? Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Nightmares MEDITERRANEAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I passed you many times as I went down the cliff walk Last Line: May be: best thing: endure: face front: get back on the line Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Greece; Islands; Italy; Mediterranean Sea; Greeks; Italians MEMORIES OF CAPRI (PUNTA TRAGARA), by LOUISE KIDDER SPARROW Poem Text First Line: A far white line where sea and heavens meet Last Line: The dreamland isle that lies beyond the sea! Subject(s): Capri, Italy; Islands MESSAGE OF ONAN, by MICHAEL+(2) HOGAN Poem Source First Line: In the galapagos is a sea turtle who falls in love with a rock. Early in Last Line: As pubescent maidens is the message of onan, ironically named Subject(s): Animals; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Galapagos Islands; Science MIDSUMMER: 27, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Certain things here are quietly american Subject(s): West Indies; Caribbean Islands MOUTHS OF THE ORINOCO, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: From prisoning towers of rock, for miles on miles Last Line: Holding within thine hand-grasp fifty reins! Subject(s): Explorers; Islands; Seashore MULL, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Tell me not of grecian isles / and a charm that's olden Last Line: Horns of elfland surely! Subject(s): Islands NEW YORK BAY AT DUSK, by MILDRED I. MCNEAL Poem Text First Line: Now comes the fragrant night in from the sea Last Line: In the safe care of thought and time and truth. Subject(s): Islands; New York Harbor; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore NEW YORK IN SUNSET, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The island city of dominion stands Last Line: And hers the fame of babylon and tyre. Subject(s): Islands; New York City; Seashore; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Beach; Coast; Shore NIPPON, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, I dreamed of nippon .... Last Line: When nippon isle was made. Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Sea; Temples; Nightmares; Ocean; Mosques OF ISLANDS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the islands sailing down the west Subject(s): Islands ON A REDBREAST SINGING AT THE GRAVE OF PLATO (IN THE GROVE OF ACADEME), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose of gloaming everywhere! Last Line: For a robin's song! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Academia; Greece; Hebrides (islands), Scotland; Home; Iona, Scotland; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Pleasure; Robins; Greeks ON LEAVE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have reached a green, green island Last Line: I have touched at the isle of the blest. Subject(s): Grief; Islands; Rivers; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean ON ST. GEORGE ISLAND, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four years since I've touched this water Last Line: Clear daughter of the tides Subject(s): Islands; Water ON THE ISLAND, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We issue from the meat of pineapple street Last Line: As I can profit by a visit to %the fish-shaped island, population two Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E. Subject(s): Islands; Long Island (n.y.) ON THE ISLANDS OF ALL WINDS, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lands which leap very high Last Line: That finally exulting in the wounded kine of the stars Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Islands ON THE NUMEROUS ACCESSE OF THE ENGLISH TO WAITE, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hasten (great prince) unto thy british isles Last Line: Will go, and see him once before I dye. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Islands; English ON THIS ISLAND, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, stranger, on this island now Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): "in This Island;seascape;""look, Stranger, At This Island Now""; Subject(s): Harbors; Islands; Religion; War; Theology ON THIS ISLAND, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, stranger, on this island now Last Line: That pass the harbour %and all the summer through the water saunter Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): In This Island; Seascape; "look, Stranger, At This Island Now Subject(s): Harbors; Islands; Religion; War ONE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND DAYS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Like a king on a primitive island Last Line: Kept from it by a shameful curtain Subject(s): Birds; Death; Islands; Peace; Rest; Soldiers OUR FLAG AT APIA, by ANNIE BRONSON KING Poem Text First Line: Across the peach-blow sky of spring Last Line: For thee and for thy glory. Subject(s): Apia Bay, Samoan Islands; Flags OUR ISLAND HOME, by CHARLES TIMOTHY BROOKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though here no towering mountain-steep Last Line: Whose waves intone, with trumpet-swell, %the hymn of law andliberty! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, C. T. Subject(s): Islands OUTER HEBRIDES, by EVA STROM Poem Source First Line: If it's so you're longing to the outer hebrides Last Line: And you're on the way Subject(s): Islands; Ships And Shipping; Travel; Writing And Writers OXBOW, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Go to one of those little islands on the prairie Last Line: Cracked their voices for good Subject(s): Islands; Nature PASSAGE, by MATTHEW JAMES BABCOCK Poem Source First Line: When I hear that over the last three months Last Line: Head a purple menagerie of fourteen new finches Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Ecuador; Evolution; Galapagos Islands; Maturity; Teenagers PAST SORROWS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As tangled driftwood barring up a stream Last Line: Forgets the old griefs, and heals their deepest scars. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Islands; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism PLUM ISLAND, by NATHANIEL BELLOWS Poem Source First Line: Not really an island it is connected to mainland by marsh Last Line: Wear the deep bruise of sweet pitted fruit the crop which %once flourished here plentiful spoiling o Subject(s): Death; Fishing And Fishermen; Islands; Sea PORTO RICO, by GEORGE E. BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Oh, the soft blue waves of the southern sea Last Line: That is what it seems to be. Subject(s): Freedom; Islands; Puerto Ricans - New York City; South Sea Islands; Liberty PORTO RICO, by JOSE GAUTIER BENITEZ Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Borinquen! Name as sweet to the thought Last Line: To the sweet influence of the world without! Subject(s): Islands; Latin America - History; Puerto Rico; West Indies PRESQUE ISLE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How well I remember the day that I spent Last Line: And pray for an earthquake to sink the presque isle. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Islands; Prayer PUERTO RICO, by VERONA WATSON LEHMER Poem Text First Line: Puerto rico Last Line: Borinquen. Subject(s): Islands RAGGED ISLAND, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, there where those black spruces crowd Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Islands RAGGED ISLAND, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, there where those black spruces crowd Last Line: Where the wide, quiet evening darkens without haste %over a sea with death acquainted, yet forever c Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Islands RAIN, by NEWMAN LEVY Poem Source First Line: On the ilse of pago pago, land of palm trees, rice and sago Subject(s): Islands; Life; Rain; Sailors And Sailing; Women RENOIR IN ORKNEY, by JOHN STEWART CONN Poem Source First Line: Monet might have made himself at home Last Line: And will distribute at the solstice %canvases of wild flowers, like mottled flame Subject(s): Orkney Islands (scotland); Paintings And Painters RETROSPECT, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In your arms was still delight Last Line: Mataiea, january 1914 Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; South Sea Islands SABRINA, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Isle of the ocean, say, whence comest thou? Last Line: Thou spark from the fallen one's wide flaming wing. Subject(s): Azores; Islands; Mountains; Sea; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean SANDY ISLE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: When the south-wind comes a-bringing Last Line: Sandy isle. Subject(s): Anxiety; Islands; Memory SATELLITE PHOTO, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Gleaming in its sheath of bluegreen air Last Line: Islands, a few drops blown to westward Subject(s): Florida; Islands; Photography And Photographers; Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel SEALS AT HIGH ISLAND, by RICHARD MURPHY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The calamity of seals begins with jaws Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Islands; Seals (animals) SEALS AT HIGH ISLAND, by RICHARD MURPHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The calamity of seals begins with jaws Last Line: Swells in their cove, and smothers their sweet song Subject(s): Erotic Love; Islands; Seals (animals) SHADOWS, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: There is deliberateness in all sea-island ways Last Line: Lend them a mask of fear. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Islands SONGS OF TRAVEL: 40. TROPIC RAIN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the single pang of the blow, when the metal is mingled Last Line: And out of the cloud that smites, beneficent rivers of rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Oceania; Journeys; Trips SOUTH PACIFIC, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Least enemy is the foe Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): World War Ii; Islands Of The Pacific; Second World War; Oceania STAR ISLAND CHURCH; ISLES OF SHOALS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray as the fog-wreaths over it blown Last Line: Which are the ledges and which the walls. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Churches; Islands; New Hampshire; Sea; Cathedrals; Ocean STATE OF THE UNION: 21. VICTORIA ISLAND RE-VISITED, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They say the sea is raging at the bar Last Line: The public purse to salvage the hulk Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Islands; Landlords And Tenants STATE OF THE UNION: 6. VICTORIA ISLAND, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the interest of the public Last Line: Why should the country not be sick? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Islands SUMMER, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be of this brightness dyed Last Line: That fears no other Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Islands; Tides TEACHING A STONE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: From the beach near st. Michael's I pocketed a stone Last Line: Thoughts skipping like stones on the sea Subject(s): Islands; Solitude; Stones TENERIFFE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Atlantid islands, phantom-fair Last Line: Illumined heaven, eternal sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Teneriffe, Canary Islands THAW, by GUDRID HELMSDAL-NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: Landscape %perfumed like %fresh washing Last Line: Spread out to dry %under the full moon Subject(s): Faeroe Islands THAW NIGHT, by GUDRID HELMSDAL-NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: And the rain came Last Line: Which has placed itself %round the world Subject(s): Faeroe Islands THE BELL-BUOY, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING Poem Text First Line: The bell buoy off manana sings twenty miles to sea, Last Line: And many miles, inland . . . It reaches me. Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Buoys; Islands; Maine (state); Water THE BLUE BOOBY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue booby lives / on the bare rocks Subject(s): Birds; Galapagos Islands THE COCOA-NUT TREE, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the green and the graceful - the cocoa-nut tree Last Line: There will a picture of beauty be! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Beauty; Cocoa; Islands; Sea; Trees; Ocean THE CONVERTED CANNIBALS, by G. E. FARROW Poem Text First Line: Upon an island, all alone Last Line: However ornamental. Subject(s): Cannibals; Islands; Pacific Ocean; Sin THE DESERT ISLAND, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: If I had a skiff Last Line: I do dream dreams! Subject(s): Islands; Southern Hemisphere THE DROWNED HIDALGO DREAMS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bahama and the caribbees? But in the mains of sun Last Line: "all day abeam the wondrous dream -- all night its valiantries!" Subject(s): Conquistadors; West Indies; Caribbean Islands THE ENCHANTED ISLAND; IN ABSENCE, BY ONE WHO RETURNS NO MORE, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou there, between thy rivers Last Line: Loosed, my soul shall wing to thee! Subject(s): Islands; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips THE FORTUNATE ISLANDS; A DREAM IN JUNE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In twilight of the longest day Last Line: And wakened half the world with me! Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore THE FREED ISLANDS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few brief years have passed away Last Line: "to new-world tyrants, old-world kings!" Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; West Indies; Antislavery Movement - United States; British Empire; England - Empire; Caribbean Islands THE GODDESS OF THE ISLANDERS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the midmost page, the bookworm's pasturage Last Line: And the opal's flame-fraught snows. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Islands; Mysticism; Mythology; Writing & Writers THE GREAT EXPLORER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sailed o'er the weltery watery Last Line: Of the kinkable cannibal isles. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Explorers; Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE HAPPY ISLES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How comes the spring in those far lands of yours? Last Line: And on their crest the calm of sunset. Subject(s): Islands; Soul; Spring; Tears THE HOUSE OF TEMBINOKA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us, who part like brothers, part like bards Last Line: Schooner equator, at sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Islands; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips THE INDIAN MAID. DEMARARIE, OCT. 27, 1781, by EDWARD THOMPSON (1739-1786) Poem Text First Line: The indian maid who lightly trips, / the dryad of the guava grove Last Line: Prove her the goddess of the place! Subject(s): Travel; West Indies; Journeys; Trips; Caribbean Islands THE ISLAND, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN Poem Text First Line: Eastward lies the island Last Line: When the grey seals come up from the sea? Subject(s): Islands; Sea; Seals (animals); Solitude; Ocean; Loneliness THE ISLAND, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Does the wind sing in your ears at night, in the town Last Line: If only your feet might touch that island again! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Islands THE ISLAND HUNTING-SONG, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more the summer floweret charms Last Line: Your noble robin hood. Subject(s): Islands THE ISLAND OF THE SCOTS, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rhine is running deep and red Last Line: The passage of the scot. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Army - Scotland; Islands; Rhine (river), Europe; Scotland - Relations With England THE ISLANDS: 1, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are the islands to me Last Line: What is greece? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Greeks THE ISLANDS: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can love of land give to me Last Line: And delos, the clasp of the white necklace? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE ISLANDS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can love of land give to me Last Line: And fall back. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE ISLANDS: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What has love of land given to you' Last Line: "and they answered -- ""peace." Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE ISLANDS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But beauty is set apart Last Line: And from greece. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Bible; Greece; Islands; Property; Greeks; Possessions THE ISLANDS: 7, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are the islands to me Last Line: And its bleak sacrifice? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Greece; Islands; Greeks THE ISLE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the island-world had been Last Line: Nor any lover own. Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Nightmares THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness THE MADONNA'S ISLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Embosomed on the deep there lay Last Line: Still kneeling on the shore! Subject(s): Islands; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE MAN DIGGING, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The isle was barren. Far as hawk may scan Last Line: "the thing on which I lean, the spade of doubt." Subject(s): Digging & Diggers; Doubt; Islands THE PLEASANT TETE-A-TETE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The isle of saint eustatia, which the dutch Last Line: Of anguish, rage, oaths, bullying, and bluster. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Islands; Justice THE PRIEST'S VIGIL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all the land of the tribe was neither fish nor fruit Last Line: Sat in their stated seats and talked of the morrow apart. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Clergy; Islands; Sea; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Ocean THE RENEWAL OF YOUTH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, could the soul, from all earth's loves set free Last Line: Save the child's heart and trust as of the child. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Art & Artists; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Faith; Grief; Immortality; Music & Musicians; Teneriffe, Canary Islands; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness THE SALAMANDER ISLES, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Snaring lights surmount the sand-dunes of the salamander isles Last Line: Would give the proper bearings for the salamander isles. Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE SCHOONER FLIGHT, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In idle august, while the sea soft Subject(s): Sea Voyages; West Indies; Caribbean Islands THE THOUSAND ISLANDS, FR. THE ST. LAWRENCE AND THE SAGUENAY, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bark leaps love-fraught from the land; the sea Last Line: Ploughing, like a huge serpent from its ambuscade. Subject(s): Great Lakes; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; St. Lawrence River; Thousand Islands THE VIKINGS' DAUGHTERS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The outrage of these poor each day Last Line: Wronged thule's daughters shall be heard. Subject(s): England; Orkney Islands (scotland); Praise; Shetland Islands; Vikings; English THORNY ISLAND, by MARGUERITE WARNER Poem Text First Line: Take me back to thorny Last Line: I would set my sail tonight. Subject(s): Homesickness; Islands THREE ISLAND SONGS: 1, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the wind in the wood Last Line: And dreams. Subject(s): Islands THREE ISLAND SONGS: 2, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, the gray rocks of the islands and the hemlock green above them Last Line: Through all her outmost islands to seek her lastborn child. Subject(s): Islands THREE ISLAND SONGS: 3, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sat among the green leaves, and heard the nuts falling Last Line: But the green nuts are falling on my heart. Subject(s): Islands TO AN ISLAND PRINCESS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since long ago, a child at home Last Line: Tantira, tahiti, nov. 5, 1888. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Islands Of The Pacific; Nature; Tahiti; Travel; Oceania; Journeys; Trips TO AN OLD RELATIVE, by GUDRID HELMSDAL-NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: Outside your door %shines a Last Line: Have carried with you %into the dream Subject(s): Faeroe Islands TO CAMDEN, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One fayre par-royall hath our iland bred Last Line: Ech streame should graue thy name vppon his shore Subject(s): Death; England; Fate; Islands; Sea; Dead, The; English; Destiny; Ocean TO ORKNEY, by DAVID VEDDER Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: Land of the whirlpool - torrent - foam Subject(s): Orkney Islands (scotland) 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 TO ZANTE, by UGO FOSCOLO Poem Source First Line: Nor shall I touch again the sacred margin Last Line: For fate wrote down for us %mere burial, with no mourners and no tomb Subject(s): Islands; Landscape; Zacynthus TOKINISH, by JAMES THOMAS STEVENS Poem Source First Line: Truth is a native Last Line: Drunke, and they shall sleep a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake Subject(s): America - Exploration; History; Islands; Native Americans; Navigation; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) TOPICAL SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, where, or how, it matters not a damn Last Line: Poor tin jack! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Islands; Landscape; Sea; Travel; Ocean; Journeys; Trips TRAGEDY OF THE ISLE DE SAINTE CROIX - 1605, by LEONIE M. CUMMING Poem Text First Line: Just yesterday my eyes were cast Last Line: While two great nations guard their sleep. Subject(s): Islands; Migration; Tragedy TRAVELER, ORKNEY ISLES, SCOTLAND, by ANNE PITKIN Poem Source First Line: The sky, for example, flat and white Subject(s): Orkney Islands (scotland); Travel TRILCE: 1, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who's making all that racket, not even leaving testation to the islands beginning to appear Subject(s): Islands; Nature TRISTAN DI CUNHA, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Snore in the foam: the night is vast and blind Last Line: The waves, the strides, the feet on which I go? Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Islands TUCKANUCK: 1, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am content to live the patient day Last Line: And dream an eastern dream, starred by the cry %of sea-birdshoming through the mighty calm Subject(s): Islands UN BRUIT QUI COURT, by MAUREEN GIBBON Poem Source First Line: On the island, women are moored like boats Last Line: Split silently so that you would never know Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harbors; Islands UNTITLED, by RAMON TODD DANDARE Poem Source First Line: Island of mine, I want Last Line: Island of mine, I want %to change your face Subject(s): Absence; Islands; Love VAN DIEMAN'S LAND (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all you gallant poachers, that ramble free from care Last Line: For if you knew our hardships, you would never poach again Subject(s): East Indies; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel WINNIPESAUKEE, by EDMUND PALMER CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Now nature with a lavish hand Last Line: And herons stalk our island's shore. Subject(s): Birds; Islands; Nature; Spring WRITTEN ON PASSING DEAD-MAN'S ISLAND, IN THE GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See you, beneath yon cloud so dark Last Line: As would blanch for ever her rosy light! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Magdalen Islands (canada) YOUNG MATRON DANCES FREE OF THE ISLAND, by MARY O'MALLEY Poem Source First Line: One tuesday in november she finished the wash-up Last Line: And she waltzed over the cliff, haloing beautifully down Subject(s): Aran Islands, Ireland; Suicide |
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