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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PLEA FOR FLOOD IRESON, by CHARLES TIMOTHY BROOKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old flood ireson! All too long
Last Line: Shall cleanse the stain and expiate all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, C. T.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ireson, Floyd; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Shipwrecks


A REQUIEM, by HARRIET MONROE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep softly in your ocean bed
Last Line: Who teach us how to die.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


A REQUIEM FOR SOLDIERS LOST IN OCEAN TRANSPORTS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When, after storms that woodlands rue
Last Line: Round the lone spar where mid-sea surges pour.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Soldiers; United States - History


A SEA STORY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silence. A while ago
Last Line: This day upon the sea.
Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean


A SECRET OF THE SEA, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down at the bottom of the sea
Last Line: And the deep sea give up its dead!
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Drowning; Shipwrecks; Dead, The


A THROW OF THE DICE NEVER WILL ABOLISH CHANCE, by STEPHANE MALLARME    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A throw of the dice
Last Line: All thought emits a throw of the dice
Subject(s): Disasters; Fate; Luck; Shipwrecks; Destiny


A WRECK IN SHREWSBURY INLET, by HENRY MORFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ocean sands are round her keel
Last Line: Content to perish, ne'er to bow!
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


ABIGAIL BECKER, by AMANDA THEODOSIA JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wind, the wind where erie plunged
Last Line: "more than I ought to do!"
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


AENEID: MORNING AFTER SHIPWRECK, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mean time, in shades of night aeneas lies
Last Line: He hand sustain'd a bow, her quiver hung behind
Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


AFTER THE SHIPWRECK, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lost, drifting, on the current, as the sun pours down
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks; Water


AFTER THE SHIPWRECK, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lost, drifting, on the current, as the sun pours down
Last Line: To coat us with salt, we stop talking. We try to remember
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks; Water


ALEC YEATON'S SON; GLOUCESTER, AUGUST, 1720, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind it wailed, the wind it moaned
Last Line: And the little child go free!
Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean


AN ELEGY UPON MRS. KIRK, UNFORTUNATELY DROWNED IN THAMES, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For all the shipwracks, and the liquid graves
Last Line: Return'd a venus back to thee again.
Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Shipwrecks


AN INTERNATIONAL EPISODE (1889), by CAROLINE KING DUER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We were ordered to samoa from the coast of panama
Last Line: Judge if we do not love each other well.
Subject(s): Americans In Oceania; Apia Bay, Samoan Islands; Disasters; Hurricanes; Shipwrecks


AQUARIUM, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Water tends to occupy the spaces love cannot reach
Last Line: The sea is afraid of falling into the earth
Subject(s): Disasters; Rain; Shipwrecks; Survival; Thirst; Water


ARIEL'S SONG (1) [OR, DIRGE] [OR, A SEA DIRGE]. FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Full fathom five thy father lies
Last Line: Hark! Now I hear them - ding, dong, bell!
Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Fairies; Mourning; Shipwrecks; Elves; Bereavement


BALLADE OF A SHIP, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down by the flash of the restless water
Subject(s): Shipwrecks; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine


BOAT, by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At 8:35 in the evening he drops the anchor
Last Line: He stands looking at what has happened
Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Storms


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


CAESAR'S LOST TRANSPORT SHIPS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some fell away to westward with the wind
Last Line: And overhead the petrel wafted wide.
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Disasters; Shipwrecks


CAPE COD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The graves of desire nye and patty nye (1794)
Last Line: In her hem?
Subject(s): Cape Cod; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Travel; Journeys; Trips


CAPE DREAD, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For those who come after, that is how we named it
Last Line: But delectable, at least at that season
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Shipwrecks; Storms; Weather; Wind


CAPTAIN BING, by LYMAN FRANK BAUM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Captain bing was a pirate king
Last Line: It took him unawares!
Alternate Author Name(s): Baum, L. Frank
Subject(s): Disasters; Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Treasures; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


CONVOY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The smoke hung low on the sand-duned shore
Last Line: Sound four?
Subject(s): Disasters; Ferry Boats; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean


COURAGE, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hast thou made shipwreck of thy happiness?
Last Line: Where a bark went down.
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery


DARK PROPHECY: I SING OF SHINE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: And, yeah, brothers / while white/america sings about the unsink-
Subject(s): African Americans; Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Negroes; American Blacks


DARK PROPHECY: I SING OF SHINE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And, yeah, brothers %while white/america sings about the unsink-
Last Line: And when the news hit shore that the titanic had sunk %shinewas up in harlem damn near drunk
Subject(s): African Americans; Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


DEAD JOYS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moan on with thy loud changeless wail
Last Line: Or art thou pitiless as wind or sea?
Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Disasters; Funerals - At Sea; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Seamen; Sails


DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SIBYLLA'S DIRGE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We do lie beneath the grass
Last Line: And the drowned and the shipwrecked have happy graves.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


DIVING INTO THE WRECK, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: First having read the book of myths
Subject(s): Cousteau, Jacques (1910-1997); Disasters; Diving & Divers; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean


DIVING INTO THE WRECK, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First having read the book of myths
Last Line: Our names do not appear
Subject(s): Cousteau, Jacques (1910-1997); Disasters; Diving And Divers; Sea; Shipwrecks


DOWN WITH THE OLD CANOE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was twenty-five years ago
Last Line: That you are just as foolish as can be
Subject(s): Disasters;jesus Christ;pride;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship); Self-esteem;self-respect


DRIFTWOOD, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beyond the reach of the hungry tides, a storm-wind swept you / high
Last Line: Merely stray bits of drift-wood by life's grim fate betrayed.
Subject(s): Disasters; Driftwood; Grief; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


ELEGY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark gathering clouds involve the threatening skies
Last Line: And bear the injured to eternal sleep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Dead, The


EMARICDULFE, by E. C.    Poem Source                    
First Line: Within her hair venus and cupid sport them
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


ENOUGH SAID, by CLARK MCADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Votes for women
Last Line: Tells the tale.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Women's Rights; Feminism


EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: DESTROYERS IN COLLISION, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For fog and fate no charm is found
Last Line: Cut down by my best friend
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks; World War I


EX-VOTO FOR A SHIPWRECK, by AIME CESAIRE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hele hele the king is a great king
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


EX-VOTO FOR A SHIPWRECK, by AIME CESAIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hele hele the king is a great king
Last Line: Of the little upside down laugh of the sea in the sunken ship's gorgeous potholes
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


FAIR PLAY, by M. L. CLAWSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A monument for millionaires
Last Line: To the men who died with their jobs.
Subject(s): Disasters; Labor & Laborers; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Work; Workers


FAMILY MEETING FOR THE DISPOSAL OF THE WRECK, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a full house, bringing home
Last Line: Themselves, now that he needed them no more
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


FATE'S COMEDY, by THOMAS DOOLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A thousand years since, fate had planned
Last Line: Began to plot another play
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


FIGURING IT ALL UP, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The captain strode the quarter deck
Last Line: The old arithmetic?
Subject(s): Battleships;disasters;sea;shipwrecks;war;waves; Ocean


FINAL MOMENTS, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fo'c'sle had gone under the creep
Last Line: The grey shape with the palaeolithic face %was still the master of the longitudes
Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sea crashed over the grim gray rocks
Last Line: "the flotsam and jetsam of human life, / no saving reflux knows"
Subject(s): Disasters;sea;shipwrecks; Ocean


GOD MOVES ON THE WATER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
Last Line: "well, he could not pay his fare"
Subject(s): Disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship)


GRACE DARLING; OR THE WRECK OF THE 'FORFARSHIRE', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the night was beginning to close in one rough september day
Last Line: And for her equal in true heroism we cannot find another.
Subject(s): Disasters; Heroism; Pain; Sea; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Storms; Survival; Wind; Heroes; Heroines; Suffering; Misery; Ocean


HARDY, THOMAS, by H. REA WOODMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The convergence of the twain
Last Line: In a solitude of the sea
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


HERNDON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, shout and rave, thou cruel sea
Last Line: Such knighthood as the grave can give.
Subject(s): Disasters; Herndon, William Lewis (1818-1891); Shipwrecks


HIS CROWN OF SHAME (ON THE SINKING OF THE 'LUSITANIA'), by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Another gem to deck your crown of shame
Last Line: Hell's horrors pale before a prussian brain.
Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Grief; Heaven; Lusitania (ship); Shipwrecks; William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


HOMESICK, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shipwrecked in this grimy town, the worst / luck I have had
Last Line: Oh! Tomorrow I'll be sailing out to sea.
Subject(s): Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean


I LOVE ALL THINGS THAT CLUSTER ROUND THE SEA, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love all things that cluster round the sea:
Last Line: And drop their anchors in the quiet bay.
Subject(s): Anchors; Boats; Disasters; Harbors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Water; Ocean


I SEE FROM BACK PORCHES - DOMESTIC BACK PORCHES, by VICENT ANDRES ESTELLES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The air's full of bottles with messages from the shipwrecked
Subject(s): Disasters; News; Shipwrecks


IN APIA BAY, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ruin and death held sway
Last Line: Of splendid chivalry and valor high!
Subject(s): Apia Bay, Samoan Islands; Courage; Disasters; Hurricanes; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery


IN MEMORIAM: THE TITANIC DISASTER, SELECTION, by H. REA WOODMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Impregnable foe from the arctic
Last Line: By that singing before the gate.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


INFINITE, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've always liked this lonely hill
Last Line: It is to shipwreck in that sea
Subject(s): Disasters; Future Life; Shipwrecks


JETSAM, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the coast for many a rood
Last Line: Spared to them from the sea!
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


JUST A NAIL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once a captain, homeward bound
Last Line: Turned the compass of the soul!
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


JUST WHISPER THE MESSAGE, by THOMAS H. MULVEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lights were softly beaming o'er the brilliant ballroom floor
Last Line: The sweet-heart maid in calmness blankly prayed.
Subject(s): Disasters; Prayer; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


KING PHILIP'S MEN, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: At dusk they heard the roar
Last Line: "dauntless in death!"
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Faith; God; Philip, King (native American Chief); Shipwrecks; Spain; Spanish Armada; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed; Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76)


LAKE, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between arid mountains
Subject(s): Disasters; Lakes; Shipwrecks; Water; Pools; Ponds


LAKE, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between arid mountains
Last Line: And an infinite shipwreck
Subject(s): Disasters; Lakes; Shipwrecks; Water


LAL OF KILRUDDEN, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kilrudden ford, kilrudden dale
Last Line: And lal's last bed the plunging sea
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


LEAK SOMEWHERE, by MARY JO SALTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No toy in a bathtub, the titanic
Last Line: In random order, and we start to rock %in one another's arms
Subject(s): Disasters; Motion Pictures; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


LETTER FROM A RUBBER RAFT, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every sleep is a new confusion of hope
Last Line: I may live another day
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks; Survival


LIFE'S JOURNEY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What laughter and singing! The sun's rays crossing
Last Line: How heavy my heart! My home how far!
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


LOOK TO THE END, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The german empire is no more
Last Line: O, god!—and we've been proud!
Subject(s): Disasters; Germany; Lusitania (ship); Shipwrecks; United States; War; Germans; America


LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Right on our flank the crimson sun went down
Subject(s): Birkenhead (ship); Courage; Disasters; Shipwrecks


LOST AT SEA, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From sparta to apollo we
Last Line: And in one grave men laid us here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


LOST AT SEA, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, misty gerenia, ill crag, thou shouldst stand facing
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


MARY ROSS, by BLANCHE EDITH BAUGHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What was the hardest hour,' you ask
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


MEVILLE, AMERICA, by ARTUR LUNDKVIST    Poem Source                    
First Line: He had spent his youth at sea, had read
Last Line: And distances were annihilated by fire that exploded in captivity
Subject(s): Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Shipwrecks


MOLASSES REEF WRECK, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No telling %how many ships
Last Line: Face banishment from these our sovereign %blest shores
Subject(s): Artifacts; Colonialism; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Coral; Disasters; Diving And Divers; Explorers; Seaweed; Shipwrecks; Slavery; Spain; West Indies


NO SHIPWRECK OF VIRTUE. TO A FRIEND, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou sail'st with others, in this argus here
Last Line: And 'midst a thousand gulfs to be secure.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


O SEA!, by LUCIAN B. WATKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O sea! O sea! O sea!
Last Line: With earth's humanity!
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


O'SULLIVAN'S RETURN, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O'suillebhain has come
Last Line: "is it thus, is it thus, that you return?"
Subject(s): Bantry Bay, Ireland; Disasters; Shipwrecks


OCCASIONAL ELEGY, IN WHICH 'THE SHIPWRECK' IS CONCLUDED, by WILLIAM FALCONER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The scene of death is closed! The mournful strains
Last Line: In silent tribute pay her kindred tear.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Dead, The


OCEANS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have a feeling that my boat
Last Line: And are we standing now, quietly, in the new life
Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Waves


ODYSSEY: BOOK 5. ODYSSEUS - NYMPH AND SHIPWRECK, by HOMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As dawn rose up from bed by her lordly mate tithonus
Last Line: Blessed sleep that sealed his eyes at last
Subject(s): Disasters; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Shipwrecks; Ulysses


OF BEING NUMEROUS, 7, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Obsessed, bewildered
Subject(s): Shipwrecks; City & Town Life


OLD COUNSEL OF YOUNG MASTER OF A WRECKED CALIFORNIA CLIPPER, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come out of the golden gate
Last Line: All hands save ship! Has startled dreamers.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


ON MR. JOHNSON'S SEVERAL SHIPWRECKS, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He that has never yet acquainted been
Last Line: But fortune's sport, are providence's care.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


ON THE DEATH OF M. D'OSSOLI & HIS WIFE, MARGARET FULLER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over his millions death has lawful power
Last Line: Take we our seats and let the dirge begin.
Subject(s): Disasters; Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850); Shipwrecks


ON THE DEATH OF MR. JAMES VALENTINE, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye clouds that in tempestuous grandeur driven
Last Line: And give me back my loved, lamented valentine.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Dead, The


ON THE LOSS OF THE 'AVENGER', by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What heart unmov'd, what eye without a tear
Last Line: Then let their cry come unto thee, and save!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


ON THE LOSS OF THE PEGASUS; DELIVERED BY MRS. WARNER AT HAYMARKET, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush! Not a sound! No whisper! No demur!
Last Line: With breakers huge enough to break the heart!
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Toll for the brave!
Last Line: Shall plough the wave no more.
Variant Title(s): The Royal George
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Kempenfelt, Richard (1718-1782); Sea; Shipwrecks; Valor; Bravery; Ocean


OUR SEA HEROES, by E. J. THIBAUT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Carried away down in the atlantic
Last Line: For the woman and also, for the child.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 3. THE SHIPWRECKED ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hope and love! All crumbled to atoms
Last Line: Deep in the humid sand.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


PLOWDEN HALSEY; 1812, by CAROLINE FRANCES ORNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Live the name of plowden halsey
Last Line: Plowden sleeps below.
Subject(s): Disasters; New London, Connecticut; Shipwrecks


PORTLAND' GOING OUT, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Early that afternoon, as we keep
Last Line: All of disaster between us - a gulf %beyond reckoning. It begins where we are
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


RAGTIME!, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ragtime! Ragtime! Keep it going still!
Last Line: Gently the music fades away—and so, god rest us all!
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Music & Musicians; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Dead, The


REDEEMED!, by UNKNOWN+155    Poem Source                    
First Line: They stand redeemed! They are not what we said
Last Line: That wraps the earth in brotherhood today
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


ROOSEVELT AND THE ANTINOE, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her high freeboard towering above the pier
Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J.
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Shipwrecks


SAILOR ASHORE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What unsteady ways the solid earth has
Last Line: Bitch-sea. Which is what they gave you legs for
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Sailors And Sailing; Shipwrecks; Storms


SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 4. THE WRECK, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Its huge red prow
Last Line: Alone with its forgotten tragedy.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


SEA SORROW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: We lay along the steamer's deck
Last Line: Twill be memorial day.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Holidays; Memorial Day; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Declaration Day


SEA TRADE, by ISIDORUS AEGEATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Eteocles was I, whom hope of gain
Last Line: Blow on the threshing-floor, and on the sails.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


SHEKLA: A VISION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shekla's magic island lay
Last Line: Writes this tale of shekla here.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Heaven; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Paradise; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore


SHIP NEWS, by A-N    Poem Text                    
First Line: Piraeus - salamis - what sails are these
Last Line: Piraeus . . . Salamis . . . They are lost between . . .
Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Greece; Shipwrecks; Greeks


SHIP-WRACK, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He, who has suffer'd ship-wrack, feares to saile
Last Line: Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


SHIPWRECK, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first few days we worked
Last Line: I began to keep a diary
Subject(s): Disasters; Love; Relationships; Shipwrecks


SHIPWRECK, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three chinese in yellow coats stood on dunes, waist-high
Last Line: Feeding everywhere.
Subject(s): Disasters; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850); Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); James, Henry (1843-1916); Refugees; Shipwrecks; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)


SHIPWRECK, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tale is different if even a single breath
Last Line: Grew gentle, spared them, while they died of that knowledge
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Seashore; Shipwrecks


SHIPWRECK, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She struck one night on a sunken ledge
Last Line: "the way I done,"" he said."
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


SHIPWRECKED, by FRANCOIS COPPEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before the wine-shop which o'erlooks the beach
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


SHIPWRECKED YOUTH REACHES LAND, by LUIS DE GONGORA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the flowery season of the year
Last Line: For even boulders rude %are flattered by marks of gratitude
Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


SIR PATRICK SPENS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: "the king sits in dunfermline town [or, dumferling toune]"
Last Line: "and there lies gude [or, good, guid] sir patrick spens, / with the scots lords at his feit [or, fee
Variant Title(s): Sir Patrick Spence
Subject(s): Disasters;drowning;duty;sailing & Sailors;sea;shipwrecks;war; Ocean


SKIPPER IRESON'S RIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the rides since the birth of time
Last Line: By the women of marblehead!
Subject(s): Disasters; Duty; Ireson, Floyd; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Shipwrecks


SOMEWHERE OFF THE COAST OF CYPRESS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Shipwrecks


SONNET: 80, by LUIS DE CAMOENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Saved from the perils of the stormy wave
Last Line: And grief and ruin spread their snares for me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De
Subject(s): Shipwrecks


SPANIARDS' GRAVES AT THE ISLES OF SHOALS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O sailors, did sweet eyes look after you
Last Line: With thinking of your woe!
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Spain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails


SUNKEN GOLD, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In dim green depths rot ingot-laden ships
Last Line: The gleam of irrecoverable gold.
Subject(s): Disasters; Gold; Shipwrecks; Treasures


TAKE THOUGHT, by PLATO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God by land and sea defend you
Last Line: I am one he did not save.
Variant Title(s): A Sailor's Epitaph
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE AEOLIAN HARP; AT THE SURF INN, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: List the harp in window wailing
Last Line: Thoughts that tongue can tell no word of!
Subject(s): Disasters; Harps; Musical Instruments; Shipwrecks; Lyres


THE BOAT THAT NEVER SAILED, by JOHN PETER SJOLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the moan of a ghost that is doomed to rove
Last Line: When the sea is black, in the dark of the moon.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE BURNING OF THE STEAMER 'CITY OF MONTREAL.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal
Last Line: Therefore be prepared for that happy land where all troubles are o'er.
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Fire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Smoke; Steamboats; Valor; Bravery


THE CAPTAIN'S WELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From pain and peril, by land and main
Last Line: "that god's best gift is the wayside well!"
Subject(s): Deserts; Disasters; Food & Eating; Shipwrecks; Wells


THE CIGOA, by VIRGINIA RUSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: This drab shell cast upon the final shore
Last Line: That mind might envisage a complete sphere.
Subject(s): Amundsen, Roald (1872-1928); Disasters; San Francisco; Shipwrecks


THE COLLISION IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on a sunday morning, and in the year of 1888
Last Line: When on the briny deep, far, far away!
Subject(s): Disasters; English Channel; Shipwrecks; Storms


THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN; LINES ON LOSS OF THE TITANIC, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a solitude of the sea
Last Line: And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.
Subject(s): Disasters; Icebergs; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Ocean


THE FISHERMAN'S BETHROTHED, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The crimson sun glared on her as she sat
Last Line: Return to the victorian women writers project library
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Disasters; Fish & Fishing; Shipwrecks


THE GREAT TITANIC, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was on one monday morning just about one o'clock
Last Line: Sixteen hundred had to drown
Subject(s): Disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship)


THE GULF OF MAINE, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Altham says / they were in a pinance
Subject(s): Shipwrecks


THE HARVEST OF THE SEA, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The jealous sea moaned in the april night
Last Line: But through the world to-day, and up to heaven!
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


THE INCHCAPE ROCK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No stir in the air, no stir in the sea
Last Line: The devil below was ringing his knell.
Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean


THE JULIE PLANTE, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: On wan dark night on lac st. Pierre
Last Line: So long you stay on shore.
Variant Title(s): The Wreck Of The Julie Plante;the Wreck Of The 'julie Plante' - A Legend Of Lac St. Pierre
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE KEARSARGE (1894), by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the gloomy ocean bed
Last Line: To the formless thing that builded roncador.
Subject(s): Disasters; Kearsarge (ship); Shipwrecks


THE LOSS OF H.M.S. VICTORIA, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let england mourn for these her gallant sons
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie
Subject(s): Great Britain - Navy; Shipwrecks


THE LOST STEAMSHIP, by FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho, there! Fisherman, hold your hand!
Last Line: "master, I was the second mate!"
Variant Title(s): The Second Mate
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE MIGHT OF LOVE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is work, good man, for you today!
Last Line: Laid him dead at her feet.
Subject(s): Shipwrecks; Death; Love; Marriage


THE MINUTE-GUN, by RICHARD SCRAFTON SHARPE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When in the storm on albion's coast
Last Line: The minute-gun at sea.
Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean


THE PEEL LIFE-BOAT, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of charley cain, the cox
Last Line: Rolling in upon the dead lee-shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE PIRATE, by FLORENS FOLSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: What d'ye think I want o' stars?-risin'
Last Line: I feel them—o, I feel them a-draggin' of me down!
Subject(s): Disasters; Gold; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Treasures; Seamen; Sails; 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 SHIP-WRECKED LOVER, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The port-reeve's maid has laid her down
Last Line: Were now her lover's pillow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE SHIPMAN'S TALE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, my masters! I speak naught but truth
Last Line: What ship, my masters? Know ye not? -- the world!
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE SHIPWRECK, by EDWARD HENRY PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the poop the captain stands
Last Line: Preserved the sinking yawl.
Alternate Author Name(s): Palmer, E. H.
Subject(s): Disasters; Nonsense; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean


THE SHIPWRECK OF IDOMENEUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swept from his fleet upon that fatal night
Last Line: And sees not, but the gods look down on both.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Mythology; Sea; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Ocean


THE SHIPWRECK, SELECTION, by WILLIAM FALCONER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain the cords and axes were prepared
Last Line: And pressed the stony beach, a lifeless crew!
Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean


THE SHIPWRECK: CANTO 1, by WILLIAM FALCONER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A ship from egypt, o'er the deep impell'd
Last Line: The pride and wonder of the aegean main.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE SHIPWRECK: CANTO 2, by WILLIAM FALCONER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Adieu! Ye pleasures of the sylvan scene
Last Line: The infected member from the trunk divides.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE SHIPWRECK: CANTO 3, by WILLIAM FALCONER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, in a barbarous age, with blood defiled
Last Line: And lead them trembling from the fatal shore.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE SHIPWRECK: INTRODUCTION, by WILLIAM FALCONER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While jarring interests wake the world to arms
Last Line: And give its present horrors to the day.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE SILENT TOWER OF BOTTREAU, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tintadgel bells ring o'er the tide
Last Line: Come to thy god at last!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE SONG OF THE WILD STORM-WAVES (AFTER THE LOSS OF THE 'TARARUA'), by PERCY F. SINNETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, ye wild waves, shoreward dashing
Last Line: Any more?
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 2. THE WRECK OF RIVERMOUTH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rivermouth rocks are fair to see
Last Line: Mingled in peace like the night and day!
Subject(s): Disasters; Hampton, New Hampshire; Seashore; Shipwrecks; Witchcraft & Witches; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE THREE BELLS [OF GLASGOW], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the low-hung night cloud
Last Line: The lights of god draw nigh!
Subject(s): Bells; Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean


THE TITANIC, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The titanic left southampton
Last Line: All the women he tried to save
Subject(s): "astor, John Jacob (1864-1912);disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship);


THE TITANIC, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was on one monday morning just about one o'clock
Last Line: It was sad when that great ship went down
Subject(s): Disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As she sped from dawn to gloaming, a palace upon the sea
Last Line: Immortal life, who greeted home-comers from the sea.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell me, do ye never hear it when the wind is / from the sea?
Last Line: Was that loyal note of courage which goes singing through the world!
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Fights; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Valor; Bravery


THE TITANIC, by GEORGE A. HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Steaming so swift and boldly
Last Line: How quickly its is brought to naught.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was midnight on the sea
Last Line: Fare thee, titanic, fare thee well.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly
Subject(s): Disasters; Johnson, Jack (1878-1946); Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beloved, you must go -- ask not to stay
Last Line: Of life's great secret on each other's heart!
Subject(s): Devotion; Disasters; Jews; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Straus, Isidor (1845-1912); Straus, Rosalie Ida (blun) (1849-1912); Titanic (ship); Judaism


THE TITANIC, by BRAND WHITLOCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: And this, the dark ironic spirit mocked
Last Line: And in the hour of failure, how to die.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC DISASTER POEM, SELECTION, by J. H. MCKENZIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And strauss, who did the children feed
Last Line: As went down in the blue.
Subject(s): Devotion; Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Straus, Isidor (1845-1912); Straus, Rosalie Ida (blun) (1849-1912); Titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC PYGMY, by ROBERT HUGH MORRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lord, we have boasted we are wise
Last Line: And trav'lers to the unseen shore.
Subject(s): Disasters; Humility; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Vanity; Worship


THE WHITE SQUALL, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea was bright, and the bark rode well
Last Line: And the bark is 'gulfed in an ocean grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Shipwrecks; Storms; Ocean


THE WIND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blow, blow, blow
Last Line: Thou hast strewn with wrecks the sea!
Subject(s): Disasters; Nature; Sea; Shipwrecks; Tragedy; Wind; Ocean


THE WRECK, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night the booming minute gun
Last Line: The moaning of the sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE WRECK, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Its masts of might, its sails so free
Last Line: On a low lee shore.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE WRECK, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it thy lord the sea
Last Line: "to turn is death."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE WRECK, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hide me, mother! My fathers belong'd to the church of old
Last Line: And gone -- that day of the storm -- o mother, she came to me there!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE WRECK OF HE COLUMBINE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kind christians, all pay attention to me
Last Line: And conveyed to aalesund and there taking steamer to fair england.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Storms; Tragedy; Dead, The


THE WRECK OF THE 'ABERCROMBIE ROBINSON', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1842 and on the 27th of may
Last Line: Likewise captain bertie gordon, who behaved so heroically.
Subject(s): Disasters; Heroism; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Heroes; Heroines


THE WRECK OF THE 'INDIAN CHIEF', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on the 8th of january 1881
Last Line: The people's joy was very great.
Subject(s): Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Storms


THE WRECK OF THE 'THOMAS DRYDEN'; IN PENTLAND FIRTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I stood upon the sandy beach
Last Line: And got lodgings for the night!
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Ferry Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Tragedy; Dead, The; Ocean


THE WRECK OF THE AIDEEN, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it cure me, docther, darlin'? An ould boy of siventy-four
Last Line: Now it's growin' bright and warm agin, and aideen, aideen's here.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE WRECK OF THE BARQUE 'LYNTON' WHILE BOUND FOR ASPINWALL, HAVING ON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sad tale of the sea, I will unfold
Last Line: A day which the survivors will long remember.
Subject(s): Disasters; Hurricanes; Shipwrecks; Survival; Weather


THE WRECK OF THE BARQUE 'WM. PATERSON,' OF LIVERPOOL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye landsmen all attend my verse, and I'll tell to ye a tale
Last Line: "and in particular for fetching the crew of the ""wm. Paterson"" safe to dundee"
Subject(s): Disasters; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Waves; Ocean


THE WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou mastering me / god! Giver of breath and bread
Last Line: Lord.
Subject(s): Disasters; Nuns; Shipwrecks


THE WRECK OF THE EMMELINE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This tack might fetch absecom bar
Last Line: Stuck fast an' firm on the outer bar.
Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks


THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the schooner hesperus, / that sailed the wintry sea
Last Line: On the reef of norman's woe!
Subject(s): Disasters; Gloucester, Massachusetts; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean


THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER 'LONDON'; WHILE ON HER WAY TO AUSTRALIA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1866, and on a very beautiful day
Last Line: And they thanked god and captain cavassa, who did their lives save.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Drowning; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Storms; Dead, The


THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER 'STELLA', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the month of march and in the year of 1899
Last Line: But I hope their souls are now in heaven in safe keep.
Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Fog; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Haze


THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER 'STORM QUEEN', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye landsmen, all pray list to me
Last Line: So the brave hero sank with her beneath the waters wide.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE WRECK OF THE STEAMSHIP PUFFIN, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell you a story, children? Well, gather around my knee
Last Line: Pond!
Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F.
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE WRECK OF THE THRESHER, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stand on the ledge where rock runs into the river
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Submarines; Death; Shipwrecks; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; Dead, The


THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC, OR THE WATERY GRAVE, SELECTION, by SOLOMON SMULEWITZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: There stand, in woe
Last Line: The name of ida straus!
Alternate Author Name(s): Small, Solomon
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Straus, Rosalie Ida (blun) (1849-1912); Titanic (ship)


THE WRECK OF THE WHALER 'OSCAR', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on the 1st of april, and in the year of eighteen thirteen
Last Line: Unsure.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Shipwrecks; Storms; Tragedy; Dead, The


THE WRECK ON LOCH MCGARRY, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you should search all scotland round
Last Line: May just help you to begin it.
Subject(s): Accidents; Disasters; Epiphany; Ignorance; Lakes; Scotland; Shipwrecks; Soul; Virtue; Twelfth Night; Dullness; Stupdity; Pools; Ponds


THE WRECK; A TALE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a calm summer evening. On the sea
Last Line: Page [39]
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


THE WRECKER'S OATH ON BARNEGAT, by HENRY MORFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One night mid swarthy forms I lay
Last Line: And hurling out as dread an oath.
Subject(s): Barnegat Bay, New Jersey; Disasters; Shipwrecks


TITANIC, by M. C. LEHR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Within the dungeon of the deep
Last Line: In music of your euloogy
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


TITANIC BLUES, by HI HENRY BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Early one morning : just about four o'clock
Last Line: And the band all playing : nearer my god to thee
Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


TITANIC TOAST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was sad indeed, it was sad in mind
Last Line: He said, I left the big motherfucker sinkin' about thirty minutes ago
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


TITANIC'S KNELL: A SATIRE ON SPEED, SELS., by HENRY BRENNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: O cruel frenzy
Last Line: Of such an empty name
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Speed; Titanic (ship)


TO THE MEN OF 'WARRIORS' WARD', by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nightly, amid my books, I stand and view
Last Line: Will mend them when 'tis time.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Stillbirth; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Death - Childbirth


TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We sat at the hut of the fisher
Last Line: Swiftly the darkness fell.
Subject(s): Disasters; Dusk; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Storms; Seamen; Sails


VISIONS: 2, by PETRARCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After, at sea a tall ship did appeare
Last Line: So great riches, as like cannot be found
Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco
Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Love - Loss Of; Shipwrecks; Storms


WHITE ROSE, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I feel great. Now
Last Line: A shipwrecked coffin mews
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks


WICK, by JUDITH H. MONTGOMERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We keep watch at dock edge, dusk
Last Line: That flickers, and is gone
Subject(s): Boats; Disasters; Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Shipwrecks


WRECK, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Although the preparation was so long
Last Line: Would say to the very end refused rest
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Bones; Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks


WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD, by GORDON LIGHTFOOT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The legend lives on from the chippewa on down
Last Line: When the gales of november come early!
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


WRECK OF THE HOWE, 1931; A BALLAD, by ALFRED HUTCHINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: One night on the rocks off bear island
Last Line: Just trusting to god in her mercy, %and thank him for that -amen!
Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks


WRECK OF THE SCHOONER 'SAMUEL CRAWFORD.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of november
Last Line: And to take the last look of their schooner in a blaze.
Subject(s): Cold; Disasters; Hunger; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Snow; Survival; Wind


WRECK OF THE TITANIC, by REGINALD M. TEWKSBURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only an iceberg
Last Line: Under moonlit sky!
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


WRECKAGE, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here by a churning surf, while breakers rave
Last Line: No bridge spans taut across your storm of life.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks