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Subject: PACIFIC OCEAN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALOHA, AINA, by DEBRA KANG DEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father knocked
Last Line: Even here, far away as I live
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang
Subject(s): Hawaii; Home; Pacific Ocean


BALLAD OF THE CALLIOPE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the far samoan shore
Last Line: A cheer that english-speaking folk should echo round the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Calliope (goddess); Pacific Ocean; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping


BEFORE BALBOA, by ROBIN LAMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pacific was there before balboa and magellan perceived
Last Line: And fashioned his pioneer microscopes to pry open to his patience an inner infinity.
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean


BREACHING THE ROCK, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pacific, the true misnomer: around the columbia
Last Line: Ready to settle for less.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Pacific Ocean; Storms; Work; Workers


BY THE PACIFIC, by HERBERT BASHFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From this quaint cabin window I can see
Last Line: The heavy heart-beats of eternity.
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean


BY THE PACIFIC OCEAN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here room and kingly silence keep
Last Line: Their ghosts illume my lurid west.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


CHART, by MYUNG MI KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Purpose lost
Last Line: To be precisely from nowhere
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Korea; Pacific Ocean; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: THE GLACIER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: At one of its sources the river
Last Line: And our swift journeys beneath the stars
Subject(s): Alaska; Glaciers; Ice; Pacific Ocean; Tourists; Travel


DANCING ON ROUGH WATER: DEATH OF A BALLERINA IN THE SEA OF CORTEZ, by JAY P. WHITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the pacific kisses
Last Line: To run deep, rise high, sail on
Subject(s): Death; Pacific Ocean


DISCOVERY OF THE PACIFIC, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They lean against the cooling car, backs pressed
Last Line: The full caught pause of their embrace
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean


EARTH AS DESDEMONA, by GAIL WRONSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unerringly, %let us talk of graves
Last Line: A zone of no %destruction
Subject(s): Chicanos; Death; Graves; Los Angeles; Man-woman Relationships; Mourning; Pacific Ocean; Prejudice; Sin; Women


EYE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The atlantic is a stormy moat, and the mediterranean
Last Line: Eye of the earth, and what it watches is not our wars
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; World War Ii


FIRST WORDS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How can I tell thee, dear, what never words
Last Line: The shifting of the changeful lights of fate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Fate; Hearts; Language; Love; Pacific Ocean; Destiny; Words; Vocabulary


MEMORIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a land, I, too
Last Line: And sets my sail to seek another sky.
Subject(s): Beauty; Home; Memory; Pacific Ocean; Soul; Winter; Youth


MY SISTERS, THE OYSTERS, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I feel like the striped pacific bonito that can't stop swimming
Last Line: Cantilevered into the cliffs of monterey
Subject(s): California; Cities; Oysters; Pacific Ocean; Sea


ONCE BY THE PACIFIC, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shattered water made a misty din
Last Line: "before god's last ""put out the light"" was spoken."
Subject(s): Judgment Day; Pacific Ocean; Seashore; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Beach; Coast; Shore


PACIFIC BEACH, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the sea called peaceful
Subject(s): Love; Pacific Ocean


PACIFIC BEACH, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the sea called peaceful
Last Line: Fleet gleam like a golden town %in another country
Subject(s): Love; Pacific Ocean


PACIFIC SUNSET, by WILLIAM GARDINER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Concord supreme takes heavenly control
Last Line: Soars, kin to god, a tiny spark of star.
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean


PLACES: 2. FULL MOON (SANTA BARBARA), by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I listened, there was not a sound to hear
Last Line: Tracing in crystal the slow way he came.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Moon; Pacific Ocean; Santa Barbara, California


PRAYER TO THE PACIFIC, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I traveled to the ocean
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean


PRAYER TO THE PACIFIC, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I traveled to the ocean
Last Line: Swallowing raindrops %clear from china
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean


PURCHASE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once you've bought into the suspension of disbelief
Last Line: To buy a thing you don't want
Subject(s): California; Pacific Ocean; Poetry And Poets; Tourists; Travel


STARING AT THE PACIFIC, AND SWIMMING IN IT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mind, she thinks
Last Line: Haze, how the ocean holds
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Swimming & Swimmers


STARING AT THE PACIFIC, AND SWIMMING IN IT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mind, she thinks
Last Line: Haze, how the ocean holds
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Swimming


SWIMMING IN THE PACIFIC, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At sunset my foot outreached the mounting pacific's
Last Line: Like a dream all years moved to
Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers; Pacific Ocean


THE COAST-ROAD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A horseman high alone as an eagle on the spur of the mountain
Last Line: Not the least hurt by this ribbon of road carved on their sea-foot
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Death; Dead, The


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 EYE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The atlantic is a stormy moat, and the mediterranean
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; World War Ii; Second World War


THE FINE PACIFIC ISLANDS; HEARD IN A PUBLIC HOUSE AT ROTHERHITHE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The jolly english yellowboy
Last Line: With the dollars of peru!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Peru; Trade; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE FLAME-TREE (NEW SOUTH WALES), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For miles the illawarra range
Last Line: That wander not nor reach up higher.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Pacific Ocean


THE PACIFIC, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fierce courage his and will straight as a rune
Last Line: Seek new gods though you never greet the old.
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean


THE PACIFIC, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The monarch of waters! The giant pacific!
Last Line: And the chaos of change in thy morn rolled away.
Subject(s): Hunting; Pacific Ocean; Treasures; Hunters


THE PURCHASE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once you've bought into the suspension of disbelief
Last Line: To buy a thing you don't want
Subject(s): California; Pacific Ocean; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Journeys; Trips


TONIGHT, WALT WHITMAN, THE PACIFIC, by GAIL WRONSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight, soul mate, I summon you out of the pacific
Last Line: Singing your angelic song
Subject(s): Anniversaries; California; Pacific Ocean; Seashore; Singing And Singers; Travel


WELCOME TO THE GREAT AMERICAN OCEAN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aloha! Wahwah! Quelle raison?
Last Line: Why, then beware your bloomin' selves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Pacific Ocean