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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SHELLS Matches Found: 46 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SEA-SHELL SPEAKS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of late among the rocks I lay Last Line: A few salt drops on me once more. Subject(s): Shells; Conchology AN ENGLISH SHELL, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was an english shell Last Line: Slaying an english foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): England; Shells; English; Conchology APPRECIATION, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the sea-shell's spiral round Last Line: As much beauty as they sing. Subject(s): Shells; Conchology CONCH, by LOUIS KVALSTAD Poem Source First Line: I lay my ear %to your breast Last Line: As it murmurs forever %in the conch Subject(s): Shells CONCH, by LUCI SHAW Poem Source First Line: Its open mouth corresponds Last Line: Know the whole world %a shell, and you the grit %caught in it, being pearled over Subject(s): Shells CONCH, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hold a baby to your ear Last Line: The listener or his small load? %the held or the holder? Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Babies; Labor And Laborers; Shells ENDURING MUSIC, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This shell, this slender spiral in the hand Subject(s): Sea; Shells FROM AN ANALYST'S NOTEBOOK: CASE REPORT, by HENRY M. SEIDEN Poem Source First Line: I thought this would be a hard case Last Line: The way the mother dies %for the sake of the child Subject(s): Nuts And Nutting; Shells FROM MAINE, by ANITA GAEBLER KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: Carried from coast line Last Line: Like an empty shell, regretfully. Subject(s): Maine (state); Shells; Conchology FRUTTA DI MARE, by GEOFFREY SCOTT Poem Source First Line: I am a sea-shell flung Subject(s): Shells GETTING TO KNOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The man who lives in a firm shell Last Line: Gets to know the snail well Subject(s): Shells; Snails I AM A SEA SHELL, by GERTRUDE WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: Put your ear to my lips and listen Last Line: I am a sea shell. Subject(s): Life; Sea; Shells; Ocean; Conchology IANTHE'S SHELL, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darling shell, where hast thou been Last Line: Dear to her than thou to me. Subject(s): Shells; Conchology INLAND SEA-SHELL, by ANNE SOUTHERNE TARDY Poem Text First Line: Flushed with the heat of endless homely chores Last Line: The laborer to the feast his harvest yields. Subject(s): Farm Life; Shells; Agriculture; Farmers; Conchology LAZARUS AT THE SHORE, by JAMES DOYLE Poem Source First Line: I wish my eyes were white pieces of shell Last Line: The sky rising in a curve of endless ivory Subject(s): Seashore; Shells LITTLE PHOEBE; OR THE SECOND GATHERING OF THE SEA-SHELLS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain had poured all day, but cleared at night Last Line: But loving hands replaced and kept them all. Subject(s): Shells; Conchology MAINE TONGUE TWISTER, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On ocean avenue she waits Last Line: See shells she sells by the seashore Subject(s): Tongue Twisters; Shells; Conchology MANTELPIECE OF SHELLS, by RUTHVEN TODD Poem Source First Line: The crimp and whorl of conch Last Line: To powder down again, to be absorbed %into the vast spiral that will throw up others Subject(s): Shells MYSTICAL INTENTION OF THINGS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Wind ripples the steely blue surface of a lake Last Line: How things at last return to their source Subject(s): Marine Animals; Seashore; Shells ON RECEIVING A CURIOUS SHELL, AND A COPY OF VERSES, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou from the caves of golconda Last Line: In magical powers, to bless and to sooth. Subject(s): Shells; Conchology ON SOME SHELLS FOUND INLAND, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are my murmur-laden shells that keep Subject(s): Immortality; Shells; Conchology ON SOME SHELLS FOUND INLAND, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These are my murmur-laden shells that keep Last Line: Dash them to earth and crunch them with the heel %and make a dust of their seraphic song Subject(s): Immortality; Shells OYSTER, by ROLAND FLINT Poem Source First Line: He lives in washington, d.C., and he goes all the way to georgia by car Last Line: Ats fuckin oyrsters.' Subject(s): Marine Animals; Oysters; Shells SEA LAVENDER, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My puritan grandmother! - I see her now Last Line: In her dear treasures of sea shells and weed. Subject(s): Beauty; Grandparents; Sea; Shells; Treasures; Weeds; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Ocean; Conchology SEA SHELL, by HARRY BEHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was very small and lonely Last Line: And laughing children who were really %nowhere now played games in the wind Subject(s): Shells SEA SHELLS, by ESTHER FRIEDLANDER Poem Text First Line: All day the wind-tossed sea has cast Last Line: Such fragile beauty can outlast! Subject(s): Shells; Conchology SEA SHELLS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what do the sea shells murmur Last Line: They tell of the little mer-men! Subject(s): Mermaids And Mermen; Shells SEA-SHELL MURMURS, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hollow sea-shell, which for years hath Last Line: A world unreal as the shell-heard sea. Subject(s): Shells; Conchology SHELL, by CHO BYUNG-HWA Poem Source First Line: Shell %on the beach Last Line: Sheel feels lonely Subject(s): Shells SHELL-TINTS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sea-shell, whence the rainbow dyes Last Line: "written in the heavens above." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Shells; Conchology SHELLS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature nothing shows more rare Last Line: Are formed art, virtue, truth. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Shells; Conchology SONG OF THE SHELL, by HENRY NEHEMIAH DODGE Poem Text First Line: The aged ocean is my nurse Last Line: Sing, ocean, surge and sing! Subject(s): Sea; Shells; Ocean; Conchology TANKA DIARY (2), by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My visitor from nebraska Subject(s): Shells; Conchology THE ENCHANTED SHELL, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair, fragile una, golden-haired Last Line: Is it a vision? Who can tell? Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Shells; Conchology THE SCALLOP SHELL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A scallop shell, loosed by the lifting tide Last Line: So frail a craft as this poor scallop shell. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Shells; Conchology THE SEA SHELL, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea shell, sea shell Last Line: Sing of the things you know so well. Subject(s): Shells; Conchology THE SHELL, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And then I pressed the shell Last Line: To hear a car go jolting down the street! Subject(s): Sea; Shells; Ocean; Conchology THE SHELL, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a shell out of the asian sea Last Line: All that I serve to tell! Subject(s): Shells; Conchology THE SHELL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miranda and I were at sport with a shell Last Line: "speak the message yourself to me!" Subject(s): Shells; Conchology THE SONNETEER TO THE SEA-SHELL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair ocean shell, the poet's art is weak Last Line: Nor in one flash deliver all thy light. Subject(s): Shells; Conchology THE SOUVENIR, by ANTOINETTE DE COURSEY PATTERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of finest porcelain and of choicest dye Last Line: A chip from that blue bowl we call the sky! Subject(s): Birds; Shells; Conchology TO LADY ANNE FITZPATRICK, WHEN ABOUT FIVE YEARS OLD, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O nymph, compar'd with whose young bloom / hebe's herself an ancient fright Last Line: —and some years hence he'll send the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sea; Shells; Toys; Youth; Childhood; Ocean; Conchology TO SLOW MUSIC, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like shovels white of porcelain Last Line: Of daisy naught, nor daffodilly. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Nymphs; Shells; Conchology TO SOME LADIES [ON RECEIVING A CURIOUS SHELL], by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though, while the wonders of nature exploring Last Line: In elegant, pure, and aerial minds. Variant Title(s): To Some Ladies Subject(s): Shells; Conchology WITH A NANTUCKET SHELL, by CHARLES HENRY WEBB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I send [thee] a shell from the ocean beach Last Line: Than ever were lost at sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Paul, John Subject(s): Nantucket, Massachusetts; Sea; Shells; Ocean; Conchology WITH A SEASHELL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shell, whose lips, than mine more cold Last Line: "tell you what you guessed before!" Subject(s): Shells; Conchology |
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