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Subject: SEA GULLS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DEAD SEA-GULL; NEAR LIVERPOOL, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lack-lustre eye, and idle wing
Last Line: Dying of soul decay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Sea Gulls


BONES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It takes a long time to hear what the sands seem to bee saying
Last Line: They extend farther than a man can see
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Gulls; Shipwrecks; Storms; Wind


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


FLYING FISH: AN ODE, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Low lies bermuda on our starboard bow
Last Line: The ship drives on; bermuda looms ahead.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean


FOG, by MARGARET R. SHERWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: An everywhere of mist
Last Line: The soul of all sea things!
Subject(s): Death; Sea Gulls; Dead, The


GULLS AND BUOYS, by ANNE LEMIEUX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gulls swoop, gulls soar
Last Line: Raucous caucus, birds of a feather
Subject(s): New England; Sea Gulls


I HAVE NOT KNOWN, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have not known this thing you call the sea
Last Line: I should feel wonder ebb away from me.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Pirates; Sea Gulls; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Supernatural; Water; Piracy; Buccaneers


IMPRESSIONS, by BERNICE SMITH HAGMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tattered eucalyptus trees
Last Line: Arbutus springs from snowy bed!
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails


LA VELIA (THE SEA GULL: PONTINE MARSHES), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here where the marsh
Last Line: And the tumult of waters.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sea; Sea Gulls; Wind; Ocean


NEREID, by BLANCHE SCHOFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: She dances on a scallop stage
Last Line: By tossing sea weed at her feet.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean


OVER THE BIER OF THE WORDLING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My friends, what can I say
Last Line: And the falling rain
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Gulls


ROGUE WAVE, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This morning near my house, a wave swept up
Last Line: Struck, lit only by a klieg-lamp's narrow gaze
Subject(s): Death - Children; Disappeared Persons; Grief; Sea Gulls; Seashore; Storms; Waves


SEA-GULL, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark to the whimper of the sea-gull
Last Line: Could you explain it to your she-gull?
Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Sea Gulls


SEAGULLS BESIDE FERRY BOAT, by BECKMAN. JOSHUA    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Sea Gulls


THE HEART OF OCEAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The grove's endearments are not thine
Last Line: Heart of the moaning sea!
Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Mortality; Mourning; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Bereavement


THE OLD SEAPORT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When winds were wailing round me
Last Line: The wild seas made reply.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Culross, Perthsire, Scotland; Death; Funerals - At Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Seashore; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE POET'S JOURNAL: ON THE HEADLAND, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit on the lonely headland
Last Line: Or weep to see me dead!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love; Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean


THE SEA'S WITHHOLDING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ladye's bower faced the sea
Last Line: "can it be dawn and love away?"
Subject(s): Disasters; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Shipwrecks; Storms; Wind


THE SEA-GULL, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The woods are full of merry minstrelsy
Last Line: Love's endless echoes keep.
Subject(s): Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean


THE WILD WIND, by SARA NICHOLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's only on nights like this
Last Line: Childhood memory.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Youth; Nightmares


THREE FRIENDS, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fate and hard foes are prevailing?
Last Line: The cliff, and the wind, and the sea!
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Heaven; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Destiny; Paradise


THREE WASH DRAWINGS: 1. PELICANS, by WINIFRED WALDRON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Three white-breasted pelicans
Last Line: Under the thin white moon.
Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans; Sea Gulls


TIDAL BASIN AT TWILIGHT, by MARY B. OWEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the waves the sea gulls wheeling
Last Line: Come to me soon -- come soon.
Subject(s): Evening; Sea Gulls; Shrines; Sunset; Twilight