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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MERMAIDS & MERMEN Matches Found: 34 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BESTIARY: THE SIRENS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I would have ye know, in the sea" Last Line: "and by lying, destroy thy soul" Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen A MERRY HEART: A SONG FOR APRIL FIRST, by THELMA LUCILE LULL Poem Text First Line: With imagined hoofs I spurn the earth Last Line: For spring is in my spine, o! Subject(s): April Fool's Day; Comedy; Mermaids & Mermen; Spring; All Fools' Day A SEA CHARM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winds that waft the fisher-fleet Last Line: My mermaiden! Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; New York City; Sea; Wind; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean A SONG OF SUMMER, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the swish and the swash of the blue summer sea Last Line: To the fish-ball's twin sister, the fragrant fried clam. Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Summer; Symphonies; Concerts ELEGY ON A DEAD MERMAID WASHED ASHORE AT PLYMOUTH ROCK, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pallidly sleeping, the ocean's mysterious daughter Last Line: Only a fable like all of our strange and beautiful dreams. Subject(s): Death; Mermaids & Mermen; Dead, The EPITHALAMION, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You left me gasping on the shore Last Line: A milky flank, a drowned, reviving face. Subject(s): Marriage; Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean; Feminism MERMAIDS, by VIOLET M. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Sun - kissed maidens Last Line: To be mermaids! Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen SEA WAVE, by MABEL W. S. CALL Poem Text First Line: A little wave mermaid Last Line: Like a white fern. Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Ocean SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 6, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, by that loosened hair Last Line: Child of the sun. Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Lilith THE ENCHANTED ISLAND, by LUKE AYLMER CONOLLY Poem Text First Line: To rathlin's isle I chanced to sail Last Line: The fairy isle is seen no more! Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Rathlin (island), Ireland THE FISHER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters purled, the waters swelled Last Line: He sank to rise no more. Subject(s): Disappointment; Mermaids & Mermen THE FISHER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters purled, the waters swelled Last Line: He sank to rise no more. Subject(s): Disappointment; Mermaids & Mermen THE FORSAKEN MERMAN, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, dear children, let us away Last Line: "the kings of the sea." Subject(s): Fairies; Mermaids & Mermen; Mothers; Sea; Elves; Ocean THE GREAT SILKIE OF SULE SKERRIE [SKERRY], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: An earthly nourrice [nurse] sits and sings Last Line: He'll shoot both my young son and me Variant Title(s): The Silkie O' Sule Skerrie Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen;sea; Ocean THE MERMAID, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Maid of the briny wave and raven lock Last Line: And hush the roaring billows o'er my head. Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen THE MERMAID, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet mermaid of the incomparable eyes Last Line: Oh, no. By jove! There comes the white hippocampus. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Sea Monsters; Ocean; Sea Serpents THE MERMAID, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither, little millicent, and sit upon my knee Last Line: Oh, lovely they, with waves at play, but doom unto a ship! Subject(s): Children; Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Childhood; Ocean THE MERMAID, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day he had felt her stirring Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen THE MERMAID, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waning moon looked cold and pale Last Line: Those heavenly strains the mermaid sung. Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen THE MERMAID, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who would be / a mermaid fair Last Line: All looking down for the love of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Supernatural THE MERMAID (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "to yon fause stream that, by the sea" Last Line: Ere lang the waves war foamin' Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen THE MERMAID OF MARGATE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On margate beach, where the sick one roams Last Line: With the spirit of peter fin! Subject(s): Biffen, Sarah (1784-1850); Margate, England; Mermaids & Mermen; Puns; Seashore; Biffin, Sarah; Beach; Coast; Shore THE MERMAIDEN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a prince with golden hair Last Line: In that palace beside the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen THE MERMAIDEN, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nicht is mirk, and the wind blaws schill Last Line: Under the silver'd tide. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen THE MERMAIDS, by GWYNNE ABBOTT Poem Text First Line: Away with the blast of the wind that blows Last Line: And the waves carry off the rest. Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Waves; Ocean THE MERMAN, by J.T. BARBARESE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ripples on your wall Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen THE MERMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who would be / a merman gay Last Line: We would live merrily, merrily. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron THE MERMAN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who would be / a merman bold Last Line: We would live merrily, merrily. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Supernatural THE MOON-CHILD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little lonely child am I Last Line: For me but sighs. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Grief; Mermaids & Mermen; Moon; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE NECKAN, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In summer, on the headlands Last Line: And sings this plaintive song. Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen THE SEA DREAM, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the loud waters, the loud and crying waters Last Line: Cities, sea-dreaming through the night! Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Silence; Water; Waves; Ocean THE SEA-FAIRIES, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slow sailed the weary mariners and saw Last Line: Whither away, whither away, whither away with the sail and the oar? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen THE WIND FAIRY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a fairy lives in the heart of the wind Last Line: And the wind fairy pouring tea! Subject(s): Children; Mermaids & Mermen; Singing & Singers; Childhood VERY NEARLY!, by QUEENIE SCOTT-HOPPER Poem Text First Line: I never quite saw fairy-folk Last Line: I very, very nearly did! Subject(s): Fairies; Mermaids & Mermen; Elves |
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