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Subject: MIST
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First Line: Bats swallow my shadow
Last Line: My hand on the horizon %of its tail the scaly sieve
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Fights; Mist; Mountains; Sea


A WET EVENING, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silvern circle of this summer lake
Last Line: With morn may kindle again.
Subject(s): Harvest; Mist; Rain; Water; Weather


AT LAST, by GEORGE E. BOWEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gaze through the opal mist across the main
Last Line: Spain's castles crumble into desert sands.
Subject(s): Freedom; Honor; Mist; Spain; War; Liberty


FOG, by INA LADD BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only a dim light gleaming here and there
Last Line: As though god, too, were lost from sight
Subject(s): Fog; Ghosts; Mist; Supernatural; Haze


LAKE MISTS (COMPOSED NEAR LAKE WINNIPISEOGEE), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I gazed on the prospect enchanted
Last Line: Thus sternly divorced from her soul!
Subject(s): Lakes; Mist; Pools; Ponds


LIGHTS THROUGH THE MIST, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some for the sadness and sweetness of far evening bells
Last Line: Lights through the mist!
Subject(s): Comfort; Evening; God; Grief; Hope; Light; Mist; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


LOVE'S MIST, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rainbows shine when clouds have parted, but their bril-
Last Line: Which had best been left enveloped in the mists of love's delight.
Subject(s): Love; Mist; Rainbows


MIST, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Damp veils are hanging over
Last Line: Shivering, shivering, in dying day.
Subject(s): Mist


MIST, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mist came from an unknown place
Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne
Subject(s): Mist


MIST, by AHMAD NADEEM QASIMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mist-enshrouded
Last Line: Leaves fall from the tree of love
Subject(s): Mist; Muslims


MIST, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Low-anchored cloud, / newfoundland air
Last Line: Of healing herbs to just men's fields.
Subject(s): Mist; Nature


MIST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tryste with morfudd true I made
Subject(s): Mist


MIST, by SHADAB VAJDI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The forest closes its eyes
Last Line: I flow %in the cold sighs of human beings %sighs that are spread %like the sadness of mist
Subject(s): Mist


MIST, by ROBERT KELLEY WEEKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw along the lifeless sea
Subject(s): Mist


MIST AS SUBJECT, by JUDITH SKILLMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It emanates from plowed rows
Subject(s): Mist


MORNING SUMMONS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the mist is on the river, and the haze is on the hills
Last Line: Lo! The dawn brings dew and fire and the rapture of the strong.
Subject(s): Life; Mist; Morning; Soul


ON THE GREAT FOG IN LONDON, DECEMBER 1762, by JAMES EYRE WEEKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lost and bewildered in the thickening mist
Last Line: Or corks afloat upon the sullen flood.
Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Fog; Mist; Soldiers; Haze


RAINBOW, by JEAN MUTTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like dew on the blossoms
Last Line: And the rainbow, I kissed.
Subject(s): Mist; Rainbows; Tears


RUSHES, by DAVID EVETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mist
Subject(s): Mist


SANTORINI MIST, by LIANA SAKELLIOU-SCHULTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old say %it's moisture rolling in from the sea
Last Line: To break calmly %over my muscular earth
Subject(s): Mist; Santorini Island, Greece; Sea


SISTER WATER: THE SEA MIST, by AMADO NERVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mist is the dream of the water, which becomes light-gray
Last Line: And I said, 'let us extol the lord, sister mist!'
Subject(s): Dreams; Mist; Water


THE MIST, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the mist, the impalpable mist
Last Line: Bar them all.
Subject(s): Mist


THE MIST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eurydice eludes the dark
Last Line: He finds that she is gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Mist


THE MIST AND ALL, by DIXIE WILLSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I like the fall
Last Line: The mist and all.
Subject(s): Autumn; Mist; Seasons; Fall


THE MIST AND THE SEA, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mist crept in from the sea
Last Line: The mist crept back to the sea.
Subject(s): Mist; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE MORNING MIST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look, william, how the morning mists
Last Line: Shall beam eternal day.
Subject(s): Immortality; Light; Mist; Morality; Morning; Vision; Ethics


THE RAPE OF THE MIST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High o'er the clouds a sunbeam shone
Last Line: In the sunbeam's passionate arms.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Mist; Nature; Sun


THE SEA MIST, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It crept -- crept -- crept
Last Line: Back into the world and back into my soul.
Subject(s): Mist


YOUTH AND AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With cheerful step the traveller
Last Line: The fears of wary age!
Subject(s): Life; Mist; Old Age; Pain; Pleasure; Travel; Youth; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips