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Subject: ROWING
Matches Found: 18

A COLLEGE ROWING SONG, by W. J. H.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Firmly catch and swiftly pull
Last Line: At last.
Subject(s): Rowing


A CREW POEM, by EDWARD AUGUSTUS BLOUNT JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: So happy were columbia's eight
Last Line: The cock-swain almost crew.
Subject(s): College Sports; Columbia University; Rowing


A PREFACE, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If he goes rowing in the park tho he may row so well that
Subject(s): Rowing


AFTER ROWING MY BLUE AND BROWN BOAT, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The two loons close by, the theory of red wine
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Introspection; Nature; Rowing; Self


EIGHT OARS AND A COXSWAIN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eight oars compel
Last Line: "steady! Pull it thr-o-o-ough!"
Subject(s): Boats; New York City - Dutch Period; Rowing; Sea Gulls; Sports


EITHER OAR, by SUSAN LASHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of all the dialogues
Last Line: While the rower looks backward, %moving almost imperceptibly
Subject(s): Boats; Rowing


LAZED ON THE FLOOR LIKE AN OLD BABY, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And brown boat
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Idleness; Nature; Rowing


MAURINE: PART 3, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One golden twelfth part of a checkered year
Last Line: That only he who watched with sorrow knows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Lakes; Love; Rowing; Women; Nightmares; Pools; Ponds


OAR, by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Anyone finding a smashed oar
Last Line: And renounced the possibilities of the oar
Subject(s): Rowing; Sea Voyages; Ships And Shipping; Travel


PADDLER'S SONG, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! Merrily ho! We paddlers sail
Last Line: Ho! Merrily, merrily ho!
Subject(s): Rowing


ROWER, by WERNER ASPENSTROM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lurching passage of the skiff might indicate
Last Line: He lifts the oars from time to time, %just letting the boat glide
Subject(s): Rowing


ROWING, by BARBARA HORTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before she steps into my craft
Last Line: The water pink, the pines taht line the shore %as still as time
Subject(s): Rowing


ROWING, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A story, a story!
Subject(s): God; Rowing


SCHOLAR, ROWING, by RICHARD MORRIS DEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You wouldn't think he knew where he was going
Last Line: In all that glare, alone, the scholar rowing
Subject(s): Rowing; Scholarship And Scholars


SEPTEMBER, by JENNIFER MICHAEL HECHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight there must be people who are getting what they want
Last Line: I should not have dropped those oars. Such a soft wind
Subject(s): Rowing


SONG OF THE PADDLERS, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrice waved on high
Last Line: On the torrent's tide!
Subject(s): Rowing


THE MOSELLE BOATMAN AND HIS DAUGHTER (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When first we took the stream, the maiden held
Last Line: Rose from her seat, to make her rowing tell.
Subject(s): Boats; Rowing


THE ROWERS' CHANT, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Row till the land dip 'neath
Last Line: For which you sought.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Rowing; Sea; Ocean