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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PIONEERS Matches Found: 93 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 8:00 P. M., FARMHOUSE, by CAROL ELY HARPER Poem Text First Line: Thin high nose. Furrowed cheeks Last Line: They listen respectfully. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Pioneers; Heritage; Heredity A DIRGE; OVER A COMPANION KILLED BY COMANCHES AND BURIED ON PRAIRIE, by ALBERT PIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy wife shall wait Last Line: Must leave thee here alone. Once more farewell! Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A PIONEER'S DREAM, by GEORGE D. CRAIG Poem Text First Line: The owl takes a meal from a rodent hare Last Line: From a winter's night ... An old man's dream. Subject(s): Pioneers A SETTLER'S GRAVE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Far on the outflung headland thou dost lie Last Line: And in the boughs above the redbirds nest? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Nature; Pioneers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A TALE OF THE AIRLY DAYS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Tell me a tale of the airly days Last Line: As they did in the airly days. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nostalgia; Past; Pioneers AFTER FORTY YEARS, by MAMIE A. MELOY Poem Text First Line: The shining, friendly cottonwoods Last Line: Beneath their changeless prairie sky. Subject(s): Canadian River; Cottonwood Trees; Graves; Pioneers; Time; Tombs; Tombstones AN EARLY PIONEER, by MAMIE A. MELOY Poem Text First Line: Against the soft, dark velvet of this case Last Line: That spread from nineveh to now! Subject(s): Farm Life; Pioneers; Agriculture; Farmers CARMELITA, by MIRABEAU BONAPARTE LAMAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O carmelita, know ye not Last Line: O donna carmelita! Subject(s): Pioneers; Texas Revolution (1835-1836); West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States CHEROKEE STRIP (THE RUN OF '93), by BESS TRUITT Poem Text First Line: Heat! Glare! Thirst! Last Line: Iron of endurance flows in their veins! Subject(s): Pioneers CLAY PIPE, by J. O. GARRETT Poem Text First Line: The old log house, built by his own hands Last Line: "I shall sleep."" and a door closed silently." Subject(s): American Civil War; Grandparents; Pioneers; Southern States; United States - History; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; South (u.s.) CROSSING THE PLAINS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What great yoked brutes with briskets low Last Line: Kings even in captivity. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Variant Title(s): Ship In The Desert Subject(s): Animals; Patriotism; Pioneers DEPARTURE OF THE PIONEER, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far away from the hill-side, the lake, and the hamlet Last Line: And moan o'er the spot where the hunter is laid. Subject(s): Pioneers DOWN TO THE CIMARRON, by MAURINE HALLIBURTON Poem Text First Line: Big ben barley and little sam coe Last Line: Came down to the cimarron years ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcgee, Mrs. M.h. Subject(s): Cimarron River; Pioneers EVENING OF A TERRITORIAL FOURTH, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The location gang of engineers Last Line: Of the pioneers, of the south dakota to be. Subject(s): Flags - United States; National Songs; Pioneers; South Dakota; American Flag; National Anthems FACE TO FACE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never to be lonely like that Subject(s): Pioneers; Reunions FACE TO FACE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never to be lonely like that Last Line: Burning under the bleached scalp; behind dry lips %a loaded gun Subject(s): Pioneers; Reunions FAREWELL TO IDAHO, by H. F. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Come all ye heroes of the land Last Line: And see the country through. Subject(s): Idaho; Pioneers; Time FOR JEAN VINCENT D'ANNADIE, BARON ST.-CASTIN, by ALDEN A. NOWLAN Poem Source First Line: Take heart, monsieur, four-fifths of this province Last Line: As you cross yourself %and reach for your scalping knife Subject(s): Pioneers GREAT-AUNT REBECCA, by ELIZABETH BREWSTER Poem Source First Line: I remember my mother's aunt rebecca Last Line: Soft as silk and tough as that thin wire %they use for snaring rabbits Subject(s): Aunts; Pioneers HOLDEN CHURCH AND CEMETERY (KENYON, MINNESOTA), by GERTRUDE HANSON Poem Text First Line: Today my feet have walked on sacred sod Last Line: The heritage they left has timeless worth. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Churches; Pioneers; Graveyards; Cathedrals HOSPITALITY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay low yon impious trappings on the ground Last Line: And deems of other bosoms by her own. Subject(s): Hospitality; Native Americans; Nature - Religious Aspects; Pioneers; U.s. - Colonial Period; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America HYMN OF PROGRESS, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Dauntless as the pioneers / that pressed Last Line: Moving, ever, with the dawn. Subject(s): Pioneers; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore IN MEMORIAM, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: True builders of the state were they Last Line: As toilers, friendsas mothers, wives. Subject(s): Memory; Pioneers IN THE FOREST, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon we entered in the woods Last Line: But this stranger no one knew. Variant Title(s): The Arrival Subject(s): Forests; Pioneers; Woods IN THE VAN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: True touchstone lives are these, and test our Last Line: Think we find health, and wealth, and fame -- behind! Subject(s): Pioneers JASON LEE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: A cry from the gloom of the western wilds! Last Line: The stalwart jason lee. Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); West (u.s.); Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Native Americans - Removal; Southwest; Pacific States JOE; AN ETCHING, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A meadow brown; across the yonder edge Last Line: The axe of the pioneer, the settler's plough. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Children; Homesteaders; Labor & Laborers; Pioneers; Childhood; Work; Workers JOHN FILSON, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John filson was a pedagogue - / a pioneer was he Last Line: Who never had a grave. Subject(s): Filson, John (1747-1788); Ohio; Pioneers JOHNNY APPLESEED; A BALLAD OF THE OLD NORTHWEST, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A midnight cry appalls the gloom Last Line: In god's grand greenwood chapel. Subject(s): Appleseed, Johnny; Chapman, John (1774-1845); Middle West; Native Americans; Patriotism; Pioneers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America LAMENT FOR PIONEERS, by VERNE BRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Out of the east they came, the strong, wise men Last Line: Of dream and song, tilled now of the tiller, death! Subject(s): Pioneers LARABELLE; CANTO FIRST, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a wide and far extended plain Last Line: Of johny green and charming larabelle. Subject(s): Farm Life; Frontier & Pioneer Life; Pioneers; Agriculture; Farmers MEMORIES OF PIONEER DAYS, by LUCY BURGMAN Poem Text First Line: Do you remember the blizzard, brother? Last Line: As I think of faithful old riley and wise old bill. Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips ODE TO ASTORIA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: On columbia's broadened breast Last Line: While you safely guard the gateway of the west. Subject(s): Pioneers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States ON THE EMIGRATION TO AMERICA AND PEOPLING WESTERN COUNTRY, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To western woods and lonely plains Last Line: Than all the eastern sages knew. Subject(s): Middle West; Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.); Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; America; Southwest; Pacific States PANAMA: THREE PICTURES, by HAROLD WILLARD GLEASON Poem Text First Line: From out of the sultry sky the great moon / beams Last Line: And rest, refreshing rest, hangs over all. Subject(s): Forests; Panama; Pioneers; Travel; Woods; Journeys; Trips PASSING OF THE PIONEER, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Open out the window, let him face the west Last Line: Far he is faring on a new frontier. Subject(s): Pioneers; Travel; Journeys; Trips PIONEER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The very old woman sits softly Last Line: She will fall softly asleep... Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Old Age; Pioneers; Women PIONEER GRAVEYARD, by BLANCHE KENDALL MCKEY Poem Text First Line: The path is over-grown with crumpled leaves Last Line: In death each soul becomes a pioneer! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Pioneers; Graveyards PIONEER WOMAN, by ELLA ALLISON Poem Text First Line: Theresa martha's firm but slender hands Last Line: And wove with song her gentleness and verve. Subject(s): Pioneers; Women PIONEER WOMAN, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: One thought of ivory and precious lace Last Line: And worshiped beauty by a candle's light. Variant Title(s): Pioneer Mother Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Pioneers PIONEER WOMAN, by ELIZABETH DE MARY Poem Text First Line: I want my own to come to me Last Line: When lo, my heart's at rest. Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Pioneers PIONEER WOMAN (FOR LAURA INGALLS WILDER), by JANET RUTH HELLER Poem Source First Line: You were born in a wisconsin I never knew Last Line: Arousing us with your courage %and pioneer determination Subject(s): Pioneers PIONEER: THE VIGNETTE OF AN OIL-FIELD, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the wagons have gone by Last Line: With church bells quietly ringing! Subject(s): Oil Fields; Pioneers PIONEERING AMERICA, by MYRA C. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Where is the pioneer? Last Line: The pioneer at his resurrection. Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; America PIONEERS, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A broken wagon wheel that rots away beside the Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Pioneers PIONEERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: If dey're walkin' on de road side, an' dey're bote in love togeder Last Line: Worl' wance more. Subject(s): Pioneers PIONEERS, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: As mountain peaks that tower above the plain Last Line: The pioneers, who run not with the herd. Subject(s): Pioneers; Solitude; Loneliness PIONEERS, by FREDERICK WILLIAM OPHEL Poem Source First Line: They said: 'now here is gold' Alternate Author Name(s): Prospect Good; Ophel, F. W. Subject(s): Pioneers PIONEERS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They came of bold and roving stock that would not fixed / abide Last Line: The founders of our nation's life, the brave old pioneers. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Pioneers PIONEERS, by PETER WILD Poem Source First Line: The pioneers are walking through the woods Last Line: In the folds of a gaudy sunset, %always insisting they're royalty Subject(s): Pioneers PIONEERS OF DETROIT, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In ancient days, on every hand Last Line: To his own happy land. Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Past; Pioneers PIONEERS OF SOUTH DAKOTA, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: Dakota pioneers, / your valiant spirit lingers in the west Last Line: We dedicate to you! Subject(s): Pioneers; South Dakota PIONEERS OF SOUTH DAKOTA, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lure of the wide expanses, lure of the sunset land Last Line: Smiting the human harp. Subject(s): Pioneers; South Dakota PIONEERS! O PIONEERS!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Come my tan-faced children Last Line: Pioneers! O pioneers! Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States PRAIRIE FOLKS: PIONEERS, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They rise to mastery of wind and snow Last Line: As did the indian and the buffalo. Variant Title(s): Prairie Pioneers Subject(s): Pioneers REQUIEM FOR A PIONEER MOTHER, by MARGARET DELANEY Poem Text First Line: You tended prairie home lights far away Last Line: Safe in his hands all dark frontiers are passed. Subject(s): Pioneers SONG OF THE SETTLERS, by JESSAMYN WEST Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Freedom is a hard-bought thing Last Line: Let it be the way we die! Subject(s): Freedom; Pioneers SONG OF THE WAGON-WHIP, by SAMUEL CRON CRONWRIGHT Poem Source First Line: The great buck-wagon, our 'desert ship Last Line: And the pioneer comes with the heralding voice of the mighty%wagon-whip Subject(s): Pioneers SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: RUTHERFORD MCDOWELL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They brought me ambrotypes Last Line: Under the sun! Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Pioneers TEMPEST, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine that july morning: cape henry and virginia Last Line: They might chart out that voyage to a shore %on which the nation they had planted would in time aris Subject(s): Pioneers THE BALLAD OF WILLIAM SYCAMORE (1790-1880), by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father, he was a mountaineer Last Line: And my buffalo have found me. Subject(s): Pioneers THE CIRCUIT RIDER, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God tramps on through the scourging rains Last Line: Once more, god built a worldour west. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Clergy; Methodism; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Southwest; Pacific States THE EAGLE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: Majestic bird, you soar through our-flung sky Last Line: The nation's symbol, die by vandal hand? Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Pioneers THE FOUNDERS OF OHIO, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The footsteps of a hundred years Last Line: Immortalize their lives sublime! Subject(s): Ohio; Patriotism; Pioneers THE LONELY SETTLER, FR. THE RISING VILLAGE, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH THE YOUNGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What noble courage must their hearts have fired Last Line: And torn from those who had no power to save. Subject(s): Pioneers THE LONG TRAIL: ANSWER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: From the clearing's scope in the breaking wood Last Line: The motherland is calling the children home! Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE LONG TRAIL: OUTWARD BOUND, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Out on the long trail. The foam drifts back Last Line: These pioneers. Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE PIONEERS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Thro' the breaking wood Last Line: With its call to new days. Subject(s): Pioneers; Roads; Paths; Trails THE MOTHERS OF THE WEST, by WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mothers of our forest-land! Last Line: "the dark and bloody ground." Subject(s): Middle West; Pioneers; United States; Women; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; America THE OLD BARLOW ROAD, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Tread softly, boys, 'tis sacred dust Last Line: And each clod a coffin nail. Subject(s): Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips THE PILGRIMAGE (OF SEVEN AND SEVENTY SISTERS), by ANNALEONE DAVIS PATTON Poem Text First Line: Over the silver-ribboned highway Last Line: Truly serves the lord. Subject(s): Crusades; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Pioneers; Sisters THE PIONEER, by HENRY MEADE BLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a sigh for the unknown land fevering his Last Line: To build the state and lift the law for light. Subject(s): California; Pioneers THE PIONEER, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, he never can tell Last Line: The world about. Subject(s): Death; Pioneers; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE PIONEER, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was a servant boy, and he Last Line: The tale of the early pioneer. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Pioneers; Dead, The THE PIONEER PASSES, by EMIL O. TOLONEN Poem Text First Line: The summer sky was purpling overhead Last Line: And bear the brunt of winds that blow unkindly. Subject(s): Pioneers THE PIONEER'S FIELD, by RICHARD BECK Poem Text First Line: You walk a sacred ground, tread gently here Last Line: The fearless planter's worthy monument. Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Pioneers; Sacrifices; Leander THE PIONEERS, by HERBERT BATES Poem Text First Line: Pale in the east a filmy moon Last Line: Where over the sombre pine trees the sea shines blue. Subject(s): Pioneers THE PIONEERS, by JOHN GALEN HOWARD Poem Text First Line: The foot speaks Last Line: For comrades there behind. Subject(s): Pioneers THE PRAIRIE SCHOONER, by EDWARD EVERETT DALE Poem Text First Line: When I see a prairie schooner Last Line: With the tongue a-pointing west. Subject(s): Conestoga Wagons; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Prairie Schooners; Southwest; Pacific States THE PRAIRIE SPEAKS, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: I am the prairie singer Last Line: I am the prairie singer. Subject(s): Memory; Native Americans - Wars; Pioneers; Prairies; Spring; Plains THE SETTLER: AMERICA IN THE MAKING, by ALFRED BILLINGS STREET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His echoing ax the settler swung Last Line: A nation's freedom won. Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; America THE SETTLERS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two stranger youths in the far west Last Line: The acacia-trees! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Home; Love; Pioneers; Silence THE SONG OF THE PIONEER, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: I would sing a song for the pioneer Last Line: To the honored pioneer. Subject(s): Pioneers THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine that july morning: cape henry and virginia Subject(s): Pioneers THE WILD-BEES, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All along the brazos river Last Line: Was the fertile land of texas. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Native Americans; Pioneers; Texas; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TO THE PIONEERS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How swift this sand, gold-laden, runs! Last Line: Sierra's snow-topt battle tents. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Pioneers; Gold Rush; Forty-niners UNNAMED, by BELLE CHAPMAN MORRILL Poem Text First Line: Sunk ankle-deep amid the quiet grass Last Line: "beloved of johannes vandermere." Subject(s): Cemeteries; Pioneers; Graveyards WELL WATER, by FRAZEE TUCKER Poem Text First Line: Bring me a drink Last Line: The water from the northwest corner of the well. Subject(s): Pioneers; Water WESTERN WAGONS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They went with axe and rifle, when the trail was still to blaze Last Line: But we're going west, tomorrow, with our fortune in our hands Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.); America; Southwest; Pacific States WESTERN WAGONS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They went with axe and rifle, when the trail was still to blaze Last Line: But we're going west tomorrow, with our fortune in our hands Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.) WESTWARD HO!, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What strength! What strife! What rude unrest! Last Line: In foremost battle, quite aside. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Pioneers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States WESTWARD PAGEANT, by LUCILLE BURTON Poem Text First Line: Always the westward pageant; always man Last Line: Aye! It is so! -- march on, o caravan! Subject(s): Caravans; Dreams; Pioneers; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips WIND SONG; OKLAHOMA ANNIVERSARY, APRIL 22, by ZOE AGNES STRATTON TILGHMAN Poem Text First Line: Wind of the prairie, sweeping adown from the hills Last Line: "but these are they who have conquer'd and kept, the people of eighty-nine." Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States |
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