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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: STORMS Matches Found: 442 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CALIFORNIAN'S DREAMS, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thunder-storm of the olden days Last Line: With the youth and life and love they held? Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): California; Storms; Landscape A CAP OF LEAD ACROSS THE SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of winter and of hell Subject(s): Storms A CROSSTOWN BREEZE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A drift of wind Subject(s): Storms A DAY IN MARCH, by DAYTON THOMAS GOULD Poem Text First Line: A wraith - like mist drifts down the village street Last Line: And let life's storms unheeded pass me by. Subject(s): Storms; Winter A GRECIAN THUNDER-STORM, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thunder came not with one awful pulse Last Line: But with no pause; the fruit is victory. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Greece; Storms; Greeks A LINE-STORM SONG, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift Last Line: And be my love in the rain. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Storms A MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT'S STORM, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Night, lightning, thunder, rain Last Line: Of birds and blossoms. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Storms A NIGHT-PIECE BY MILLET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind and sea and cloud and cloud-forsaking Last Line: Wind and sea. Subject(s): Roundels; Sea; Storms; Wind; Ocean A NORTHEASTER, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For two bleak days the warning pennant red Last Line: Scudding her way through space with every reef let out. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Hospitality; Storms A PRAYER FOR THE SAILOR, by EMMETT MALOY COUNTS Poem Text First Line: Outside my window howls the wind Last Line: May find his way to shore. Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean A RAINY NIGHT, by WILLARD DOUGLAS COXEY Poem Text First Line: Softly the rain falls into the night Last Line: As earth and the heavens meet. Alternate Author Name(s): American Subject(s): Rain; Storms A REPLY TO STORMS IN NEW ORLEANS; FOR MY MOTHER IN SEATTLE, by CAROLYNE WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Nothing unholy about lightning where Subject(s): New Orleans; Storms A SNOWY MORN, by MARY D. WALLACE Poem Text First Line: The storm king came to earth last night Last Line: "need any help now over there?" Subject(s): Morning; Storms A SONG IN TIME OF ORDER, 1852, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Push hard across the sand Last Line: The kingdoms are less by three. Variant Title(s): A Song In Time Of Order: 1852 Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Ocean A SONG OF THE CRUISE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the sun and the rain, and the rain and the sun! Last Line: But smile and be brave till the voyage is o'er. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Rain; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Sun; Ocean A STORM, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spirits of the mighty sea Last Line: In our grave beneath the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Storms A STORM AT HASTINGS AND THE LITTLE UNKNOWN, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas august - hastings every day was filling Last Line: Seized the last cast -- and nick'd him in the main! Subject(s): Hastings, England; Storms A STORM IN APRIL, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Some winters, taking leave Last Line: And through chill air the puffs of milkweed hover Subject(s): Storms A STORM IN SUMMER, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature that day a woman was in weakness Last Line: Burst into tears. Subject(s): Nature; Storms; Wind A STORM IN THE DISTANCE (AMONG THE GEORGIAN HILLS), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see the cloud-born squadrons of the gale Last Line: To meet the healing kisses of the sun. Subject(s): Nature; Storms A STORY OF THE SEA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were you ever told the legend old Last Line: "is alone the peace he craves." Subject(s): Grief; Life; Sea; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean A TEMPEST, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An awful tempest mashed the air Last Line: And peace was paradise! Variant Title(s): Poem: 198;poem: 224 Subject(s): Storms A THUNDER-STORM (2ND VERSION), by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind begun to rock the grass / with threatening tunes and Last Line: Just quartering a tree. Subject(s): Storms A WHIRL-BLAST FROM BEHIND THE HILL , by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Were dancing to the minstrelsy Subject(s): Leaves; Storms A WILD NIGHT, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm is sweeping o'er the land Last Line: That struggle with the sea! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean A WINTER'S NIGHT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has reverenced the splendor of the night Last Line: I would to-night the storms were all awake! Subject(s): Night; Storms; Wind; Winter; Bedtime ABBOTT'S LAGOON, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The storm's still everywhere I run [or, step] Last Line: & trot into another morning's workout Subject(s): Lagoons; Sea; Storms; Water AFRICAN THUNDERSTORM, by DAVID RUBADIRI Poem Source First Line: From the west %clouds come hurrying with the wind Last Line: And the pelting march of the storm Subject(s): Storms AFTER A JUNE NIGHT'S STORM, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: O what a day of lovely light Last Line: By a draught of her gladdening wine. Subject(s): Nature; Storms; Wind AFTER A TEMPEST, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day had been a day of wind and storm Last Line: On all the peaceful world the smile of heaven shall lie. Subject(s): Storms AFTER STORM, by LOLA RIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was there a wind? Last Line: About a dream impaled. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Storms AFTER THE LOSS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A storm rips the leaves Last Line: Litter of dead leaves Subject(s): Storms AFTER THE STORM, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Renewed by morning air now pouring in Last Line: Clean arc from birth door to the grave Subject(s): Death; Homosexuality; Life; Storms AFTER THE STORM, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sol took his nightcap off and gazed Last Line: And lo! The earth was filled with light. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): Storms AFTER THE STORM, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ere the sparkling raindrops Last Line: Which cannot be undone. Subject(s): Nature; Storms; Trees AFTER THE STORM, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The duel of the warring clouds Last Line: The smile of god shall glow. Subject(s): God; Peace; Storms AN AUTUMN VISION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it midsummer here in the heavens that Last Line: The limitless lightnings of vision and passion, the measureless music of love. Subject(s): Autumn; Nature; Seasons; Storms; Vision; Fall AN OLD MASTER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I saw a picture yesternight Last Line: The white-pure moon looked out. Subject(s): Beauty; Moon; Storms; Transience; Impermanence APPROACH OF THE STORM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From the half %of the sky Last Line: Is coming, makes a noise Subject(s): Storms APRIL, by MABEL WARREN ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: Clouds and rain and gloom are ever Last Line: Clouds and rain. Subject(s): Storms ARNOLD, MASTER OF THE SCUD, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's a schooner out from kingsport Subject(s): Fundy, Bay Of; Sea; Storms AT DIEPPE: 4. BEFORE THE SQUALL, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is rising on the sea Last Line: The sails that fly before the squall. Subject(s): Dieppe, France; Storms AYE THERE IT IS! IT WAKES TONIGHT, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Storms; Life BAILING OUT-A POEM FOR THE 1970S, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The landings had gone wrong; white silk Last Line: I can't help you, help me. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Variant Title(s): Bailing Out -- A Poem For The 1970s Subject(s): Accidents; Air; Storms BEFORE THE STORM, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: The sky grew darker with each minute Last Line: Then first the lightning broke. Subject(s): Storms BETWEEN HINGHAM AND BRAINTREE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between braintree and hingham Last Line: On the full flood tide! Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Storms; Water BIRD SONG IN BLIZZARD, by TERENCE MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: He wanted to walk the small field Last Line: World spinning out of control Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Storms; Weather BLIZZARD ROPE, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: I have not forgotten Last Line: Go where you will Subject(s): Aging; Storms; Weather 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 BREACHING THE ROCK, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pacific, the true misnomer: around the columbia Last Line: Ready to settle for less. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Pacific Ocean; Storms; Work; Workers BY THE NORTH SEA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea, wind and sun, with light and sound and breath Last Line: My song to the sea. Subject(s): Death; North Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Travel; Dead, The; 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 CEASING OF THE STORM, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The storm had well nigh gone; no fitful blast Last Line: Or lurks in bye-paths for the observant eye. Subject(s): Storms CLASSIC OF POETRY: 30, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: First the wind, then the storm Last Line: I lie awake and cannot sleep, %my heart is filled with yearning Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Desire; Storms CYRIL TOURNEUR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sea that heaves with horror of the night Last Line: And over all these one star -- chastity. Subject(s): Death; Hell; Sea; Soul; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean DANGER, by LYNNE MCMAHON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A thunderhead boils up overhead Last Line: From me, or our beautiful guest Subject(s): Storms DARIEN, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The waves swing hushed to the blue sky-line Last Line: The double world grows one—at darien! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Storms; Waves; Seamen; Sails; Ocean DAWNS OF MOGUER, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: The silver poplars Last Line: The baffled moon Subject(s): Clouds; Storms; Weather DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 2, SELECTION, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis pleasant, safely to behold from shore Last Line: Their beames abroad, and bring the darksome soul to day. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Nature; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Translating & Interpreting DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 5, SELECTION, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus like a sailor by the tempest hurled Last Line: And nature's lavish hand supplies their common wants. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Variant Title(s): The Infant Subject(s): Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Nature; Storms; Translating & Interpreting DECEMBER, by LUMAN R. BOWDISH Poem Text First Line: Keen is the clear deep vault of night Last Line: Boreas molds the sullen storm. Subject(s): December; Frost; Nature; Storms DESERT STORM, by LORIS PICKARD WOOLERY Poem Text First Line: Dark clouds boil up to fill the sky Last Line: Of deafening sound -- the aftermath. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Storms DEWEY AND DANCER, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cambises king, the mexican bandit Subject(s): Mexico; Dancing & Dancers; Storms DRIVING IN A BLIZZARD, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Fingerprints are treads on fingers Last Line: Was crucified or killed at bunker hill Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Storms DWARF JUNIPER, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing can more harshly interpret Last Line: Swept into stiffened spirals by gale winds Subject(s): Cyclones; Storms; Wind E.J.B., by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Companions, all day long we've stood Last Line: To guard their cabin room Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): "companions, All Day Long We've Stood""; Subject(s): Sailors And Sailers; Storms; Brotherhood EDDY-GRAMS: 4. STORM AND TRAVAIL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Trees may crash beneath a cyclone Last Line: When he shall unlock the door. Subject(s): Cyclones; Lightning; Storms; Tragedy; Wind; Lightning Rods EL NINO, by CHERYL BOYCE TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: We woke to the sharp edge Last Line: And the land was generous %sweet in all its unexplained intentions Subject(s): Storms ELEGIAC SONNET: 59. WRITTEN DURING REMARKABLE THUNDER STORM, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What awful pageants crowd the evening sky! Last Line: Smiles at the tumult of the troubled earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Storms ELEGIAC SONNET: 66. WRITTEN IN A TEMPESTUOUS NIGHT, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night-flood rakes upon the stony shore Last Line: And shuns the eyes, that only wake to weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Storms EMERGENCY COMMISSION, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Self-tossed out of heart Last Line: Carry the crush and shock? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Storms; Wind EROS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm of love has burst at last Last Line: And billow and wallow and undulate. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Storms; Eros EVENING AFTER STORM, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around these city towers there churns Last Line: Passing over, glances in. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Storms; Wind EVENING STORM - NIPIGON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the beach, with low, quick, mournful sob Last Line: And so the day before its time is dead. Subject(s): Seashore; Storms; Beach; Coast; Shore FACING INTO IT; FOR LARRY LEVIS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So it is here, then, after so long, and after all Last Line: And winter in straw. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Autumn; Desolation; Disasters; October; Seasons; Storms; Fall FACING THE STORM, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The church made in the shape of a boat Last Line: Finds it hard to stay afloat Subject(s): Churches; Longevity; Ships And Shipping; Storms FEAR, by HELENE THURSTON Poem Text First Line: Do you see the gray mists twisting Last Line: Weird music like lorn dirges o'er the dead ....? Subject(s): Storms FIRES, by HARRIET SEYMOUR Poem Text First Line: Beside the orange spatterings of fire Last Line: We turned to go, in silent, sudden pain. Subject(s): Pain; Storms; Suffering; Misery FIRST STORM, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was alabama. It was cold Last Line: And that my feet had never touched the ground Subject(s): Storms FIRST STORMS, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: The snow comes too soon Last Line: From its dark, close room Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Winter FOLLOWING A CABIN CRUISER IN A BLIZZARD, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: Nose raised to the wind Last Line: With salt sea water, %or blood Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Snow; Storms; Travel FOR A CRITIC WHO TRIES TO WRITE POEMS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, well, little poet Last Line: In the middle of a thunderstorm! Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Poetry & Poets; Storms; Writing & Writers FOURTH OF JULY ELECTRICAL STORM, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: I take you on a family picnic Last Line: White rock and people who belong to that earth Subject(s): Fireworks; Fourth Of July; Storms; Thunder FRIGHTENED TREES, by EDWIN CARLILE LITSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw three trees against a stormy sky Last Line: In solitude to moan themselves to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Litsey, E. Carl Edwin Carlile Subject(s): Storms; Trees FROM A BUS WINDOW IN CENTRAL OHIO, JUST BEFORE A THUNDER SHOWER, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cribs loaded with roughage huddle together Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Farm Life; Storms; Agriculture; Farmers GALE, by W. F. SPICER Poem Source First Line: The dark scud scowls at the shrinking moon Last Line: We shame our course, and joyously %to western isles we sail Subject(s): Navy - United States; Storms GLEE - THE GREAT STORM IS OVER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And only the waves reply Subject(s): Storms; Survival GOD'S CONCERT, by ISABEL STEWART MCMEEKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night god's orchestra played Last Line: God's concert was over. Subject(s): Storms GOD'S WEATHER: JUNE, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: In the west pile the stormclouds, and bluegrass and roses Last Line: Beaten prone in the wet fragrant weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Months; Storms; Weather 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 GREEN SQUALL, by JAY HOPLER Poem Source First Line: Lighting -- %now there's a sexy machete: a pounce of sky electric Last Line: This is the hurry Subject(s): Storms HAIL STORM, by JOHN COLMAN EVANS Poem Text First Line: We stood knee-deep among the corn Last Line: And found him hanging in the barn. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Storms; Suicide; Agriculture; Farmers HAILSTORM IN MAY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail Last Line: Bid joy back, have at the harvest, keep hope pale. Subject(s): Spring; Storms HEALED, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winds like a pack of hounds Last Line: And its face was the face of a mother, and its voice was the voice of a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Dust; Healing; Storms; Wind; Cures HEAVED FROM THE EARTH, by BESMILR BRIGHAM Poem Source First Line: After the tornado, a dead moccasin Last Line: Pushing the fire thorns in Subject(s): Disasters; Earth; Hurricanes; Storms; Thunder HIGH O'ER THE POOP THE AUDACIOUS SEAS ASPIRE, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea; Storms HIS EXCELLENCY THE MASQUERADER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He serves %to ford between swamp and sand Last Line: What wind! What straw! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Household Employees; Storms; Worship HISTORY, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The massif of the dahlias lay between Last Line: Under the coming storm. Subject(s): History; Storms; Time; Historians HOW LOUD THE STORM SOUNDS ROUND THE HALL!, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Storms HOW LOUDLY MOANS THE UNHAPPY WEST, by HENRY PATMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: That soon shall show the east Subject(s): Sea; Storms 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 I LOVE A STORM, by GRACE TURNER SMITH Poem Text First Line: I love a storm, yes, I, who all my life Last Line: And bids faint hearts have courage and be strong. Subject(s): Storms ICE STORM, by UNA W. HARSEN Poem Text First Line: Winter is in no happy mood today Last Line: To build a wondrous fairyland of ice. Subject(s): Ice; Storms; Winter ICE STORM, by LAURIE J. LAMON Poem Source First Line: I forget the cold bed's cargo of blankets, clothes Last Line: I must crouch to enter and leave this house Subject(s): Ice; Storms IMITATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE: A STORM, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: The sun went down in wrath Last Line: Seven days it stormed, &c. Subject(s): Shakespeare - King Henry V; Storms IMPRESSIONS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: The virent salt-marsh tide is high to-night Last Line: Sh! Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Tides; Weather; Ocean IN A STORM (ON THE BARK 'PESTALLOZI'), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon this great ship's tilted deck Last Line: O god, where art thou? ... Here am I! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Storms IN BALANCE, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A large torn branch, broken by wind Subject(s): Snow; Storms IN SARK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abreast and ahead of the sea is a crag's front cloven asunder Last Line: Abreast and ahead? Subject(s): Death; Roundels; Sea; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean IN THE EYE OF STORM, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I gather the calm of yesterdays wishes Last Line: Moving deeper into the wide ark of truth Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Quarrels; Storms IN THE PLACE DE LA BASTILLE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a clear day in paris, walking where Last Line: The tragic tumbrils, hark! Go rumbling by! Subject(s): Bastille (paris); Clouds; Paris, France; Prisons & Prisoners; Storms; Convicts IN THE ST. GOTTHARDT PASS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The storm which shook the silence of the hills Last Line: They kiss high heaven in all embracing light. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Storms; Hills; Downs (great Britain) IN THE STORM, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shining moments are so far between! Last Line: And this, too, ends. There is a certain end. Subject(s): Life; Soul; Storms INSIDE THE LIGHTNING, by DOUG MCNAMEE Poem Source First Line: For hours now the night ignites with heat Last Line: The self smokes and I don't want it to end Subject(s): Storms INSOUCIANCE IN STORM (ON THE ORE-BOAT 'HOWE'), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in an ore-boat's hold Last Line: Mid rushing hills of storm! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Storms INVOCATION; WRITTEN IN THE GULF OF LYONS DURING A STORM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Play me a lulling tune, o flute-player of sleep Last Line: Beyond the last, low, long, oblivious sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Lyons, France; Prayer; Sea; Sleep; Storms; Wind; Ocean IT BLOWS A SNOWING GALE IN THE WINTER OF THE YEAR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The passion of the gale. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Winter; Storms IT SNOWS AND IT BLOWS, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It snows and it blows, it is cold, stormy / weather Last Line: For it snows, etc. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Sky; Snow; Storms; Weather; Winter JANUARY NIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In front of me on my desk Last Line: And climb towards the sun Subject(s): January; Night; Seashore; Storms; Winter; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore JANUARY NIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In front of me on my desk Last Line: And climb towards the sun Subject(s): January; Night; Seashore; Storms; Winter KENT THUNDERSTORM RHYME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If it sinks from the north Last Line: It will leave us in peace Subject(s): Storms LASHED BY GUSTS THE LEAFY WILLOWS, by UMARA OF MERV Poem Source Last Line: Bloodied sword-points in the dawn Subject(s): Storms LAST NIGHT WE HAD A THUNDERSTORM IN STYLE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The strenuous faithful buckled to their prayers Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Storms LEAR, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When the world takes over for us Subject(s): Storms LEAVING THE HARBOR, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last the great, red sun sank low Last Line: Lay on the shore of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Harbors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean LIFE ON THE LAKES: ALONGSHORE, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The storm swings over the waters wide Last Line: "off the men—running high—going fast—getting thick." Subject(s): Seashore; Storms; Beach; Coast; Shore LIFE ON THE LAKES: REQUIEM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: There's a far wet way to the journey's end Last Line: Where the headboards show—sleep well, my friend! Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Storms LIFE ON THE LAKES: STORM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: A chill creeps over the waters wide Last Line: The hurt call sounds four! Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Storms; Weather; Lightning Rods LINES WRITTEN AFTER A VERY SEVERE TEMPEST, by MERCY OTIS WARREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When rolling thunders shake the skies Subject(s): Storms LINES WRITTEN AT MIDNIGHT DURING A THUNDER-STORM, by ELIZABETH CARTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let coward guilt, with pallid fear Last Line: Of everlasting day! Subject(s): Storms LINES WRITTEN DURING A GREAT SNOWSTORM, YORKSHIRE, 1784, by ? PRATT Poem Source First Line: I rise about ten to hear who's alive Last Line: Till nine the next morning he gives me a call Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt Of Peterborough, Mr. Subject(s): Storms LINES, WRITTEN IN A STORM AT SEA, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That sky of clouds is not the sky Last Line: No more shall move him. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Storms LISTENING TO STORMS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis pleasant, by the cheerful hearth, to hear Last Line: And thinks upon the suffering mariner! Subject(s): Storms LITTLE EXERCISE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily Subject(s): Mangroves; Storms LITTLE EXERCISE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily Last Line: Think of him as uninjured, barely disturbed Subject(s): Mangroves; Storms LITTLE PATCH O' BLUE, by GAZELLE STEVENS SHARP Poem Text First Line: Twas one o' them 'ere blusterin' days Last Line: But I shan't soon forget. Subject(s): Clouds; Storms LOCH CORUISK (SKYE), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bleak and barren mountains keep Last Line: The eagle's scream or wild swan's cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Sound; Storms; Wind LOOK HE SAYS LOOK AT THIS, by DENNIS COOLEY Poem Source Last Line: Look he says look Subject(s): Death; Storms; Wind LOST ON THE PRAIRIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In one of the states of america, some years ago Last Line: Because he saved them from being lost on the wild prairie. Subject(s): Heroism; Storms; Survival; Heroes; Heroines LOWER NEW YORK- A STORM, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White wing'd below the darkling clouds Last Line: To all but greed and gain? Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): New York City; Storms; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple LULL, by RHEA B. ZEHR Poem Text First Line: The frightened night Last Line: Crouched like a black cat waiting. Subject(s): Night; Storms; Bedtime LULLABY, by KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER Poem Source First Line: Snow is lying on my roof Last Line: And I wished the sky to fall Subject(s): Roofing And Roofers; Storms MARCH MADNESS ON EDGEWATER HILL, by BEULAH ALLYNE BELL Poem Text First Line: High winds and a storm brewing Last Line: Bedlam out of the dawn! Subject(s): March (month); Storms MARINER'S CAROL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So still the night swinging Last Line: We keep the long watches. %o star, shine before us! Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Storms; Wind MERCURY, by STEFAN HERTMANS Poem Source First Line: Naked, we saw the lightning coming Last Line: And the morning light blinded me Subject(s): Storms MERMILL RD., MILTON CENTER, by MARK DALEY Poem Source First Line: We're watered down, this morning light diffuse Last Line: Wearing down like weather does a rock Subject(s): Floods; Rain; Storms; Weather; Wind METEOROLOGY, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: A storm front wanders down from the mountains, gray and white Last Line: The other riders wrapped in themselves like explorers lost in a blizzard %then they're gone, too, an Subject(s): Rain; Storms; Weathervanes; Wind MICHAEL IS AFRAID OF THE STORM, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lightning is angry in the night Last Line: No one will laugh, I guess Subject(s): Storms MICHAEL IS AFRAID OF THE STORM, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lightning is angry in the night Last Line: No one will laugh, I guess Subject(s): Storms MILKING THE COW, by MATTHEW LIPPMAN Poem Source First Line: I've been reading the paper all morning and can't get my eyes of the barn Last Line: As it races over the brown wheat grass to meet me head on %between the pink udders of one brown cow Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; News; Storms; Winter MONSOON, by DAVID WEVILL Poem Source First Line: A snake emptied itself into the grass Last Line: Deep, through stem and rot, and into the cave of stone %where the scorpion hungers, carrying his bru Subject(s): Storms MORNING JITTERS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the storm re-established itself Subject(s): Storms; Night; Bedtime MOUNTAIN IN A STORM, by HERMAN J. D. CARTER Poem Source First Line: The sky is angry Subject(s): Mountains; Storms MOUNTAIN STORM, by FRANCES DAVIS ADAMS Poem Text First Line: The rain drags dripping finger-tips Last Line: Rattles down the gorge. Subject(s): Storms MOUNTAIN WIND, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: Watchful, in a canyon resting Last Line: Hurtling to the sea. Subject(s): Sea Monsters; Storms; Wind; Sea Serpents MY BEAST, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A little beast is visiting me Last Line: The scratching of black sedges Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry And Poets; Storms; Wind MY MOJAVE, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sha- / dow, / as of Subject(s): Storms; Jealousy MY THREE GUESTS: GRIEF, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A storm is raging and a fierce wind blows Last Line: Destroying rest at night and happy days. Subject(s): Grief; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness NEAP-TIDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far off is the sea, and the land is afar Last Line: In the sun and the wind and the sea. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Tides; Ocean NEPTUNE'S STEEDS, by WILLIAM LAWRENCE CHITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: Hark to the wild nor'easter! Last Line: Will homeward come again. Alternate Author Name(s): Chittenden, Larry Subject(s): Mythology; Storms NEWS, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the low west falls suddenly shining Last Line: Is contented in faery land. Subject(s): Discontent; News; Rain; Storms; Wind; Dissatisfaction NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 2. VOICE OF A YOUTHFUL TURK, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If only up the straits the tempest flew Last Line: Dying again upon the mouth of you! Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Death; Moon; Storms; Dead, The NIGHT STORM, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This tempest sweeps the atlantic! - nevasink Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Sea; Storms O GLORIOUS SEA THAT IN EACH CLIMBING WAVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thou sayest to men: go back & come not hither Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ships & Shipping O THE FIERCE DELIGHT, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the fierce delight, the passion Last Line: And shout and be glad. Subject(s): Storms ODE TO A STRAW, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence comest thou o wandering elf Last Line: There's but a name. Subject(s): Names; Storms; Straw; Wandering & Wanderers ODES 1, 9. VIDES UT ALTA, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep snow! Soracte stands solid under it Last Line: Or from a finger an easy forfeit. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Weather; Winter ODES X, 2, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If o'er life's sea your bark you'd safely guide Last Line: Learn wisely to contract the swelling sail. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Fate; Life; Sea; Storms; Wisdom; Destiny; Ocean OF POLITICS, & ART, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula Last Line: God-rendering voice of a storm. Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Nostalgia; Politics & Government; Storms; Teaching & Teachers; Tuberculosis; Women; Educators; Professors; Consumption (pathology) ON A THUNDERSTORM (PRESERVED BY HIS SCHOOLMASTER), by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll Last Line: And harden'd sinners thy just vengeance fear. Subject(s): Faith; Storms; Belief; Creed ON THE BRIDGE, by ARTHUR REED ROPES Poem Text First Line: All the storm has rolled away Last Line: Down the ladders of the leaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Roos, Adrian Subject(s): Bridges; Storms ON THE MASSACHUSETTS COAST: NIGHT, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the gloom of the night with the wind and the rain Last Line: Howling in, beating in from the desolate main. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Night; Storms; Bedtime ON THIS LONG STORM THE RAINBOW ROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Must awaken her! Subject(s): Storms; Death OPTIMISM, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A freak spring snow storm made us take the old Subject(s): Storms; Optimism OUTDOOR CAFE APPROACHING STORM, by KEVIN PRUFER Poem Source First Line: My mouth wants a handful of coins to fill it Last Line: To bring a storm everything has been said so well %I cannot do better Subject(s): Environment; Noises; Storms OUTSIDE IT IS BLOWING AND RAINING, by ALEXEY (ALEKSEY) KONSTANTINOVICH TOLSTOY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: While it blows and rains in the night Alternate Author Name(s): Prutkov, Koz'ma Petrovich Subject(s): Storms; Houses, Deserted; Death; Transience PALACE OF THE WORLD, by LOUIS HENRI JEAN FARIGOULE Poem Text First Line: The sky opened unresistingly Last Line: The storm that calls. Alternate Author Name(s): Romains, Jules Subject(s): Clouds; Sky; Storms PARADOX, by MAGDELEN EDEN BOYLE Poem Text First Line: It seemed a paradox,that she whose placid day Last Line: Shone from her eyes! Subject(s): Storms PATROLING BARNEGAT, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild, wild the storm, and the sea high running Last Line: That savage trinity warily watching. Variant Title(s): Patrolling Barnegat Subject(s): Barnegat Bay, New Jersey; Sea; Storms; Ocean PEACE, BE STILL, by JAMES C. HAUPT Poem Text First Line: Brave men go out to sea / in ships of wood Last Line: They worship him -- rejoice! Subject(s): Storms PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 5, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How looks appledore in a storm? Last Line: And such in a storm is appledore. Subject(s): Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire; Storms PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 8. STORM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tempest is raging Last Line: Over the wide and tempest-toss'd sea. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 2. THUNDERSTORM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavily lies on the ocean the storm Last Line: "and thou, knight of the ring, polydeuces!" Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean POPLAR: 2, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No gale that heaven could send her Last Line: Who hears exalt her art. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Noises; Poplar Trees; Storms POST NUBES LUX, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sink, sullen rear-guard of the storm Last Line: I half adore thee as divine. Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Storms; Winter PRACTICING FOR THE RAPTURE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: In the grainy frames of an early film, a man straps on Last Line: To rise, and enter a realm of creatures %lighter than air Subject(s): Storms; Water; Wind PREDICTIONS ABOUT A BLACK CAT, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four boys have been arrested for killing geese. This is how it Subject(s): Death - Animals; Automobile Accidents; Storms PROCESS AND SPACE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You never have to know the whole story Last Line: Like a broken jalousies %in a halfhearted storm Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Storms PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which let us go forth in the bold day and write Subject(s): Storms; Music & Musicians QUATRAIN: STORM IN THE HIGHLANDS, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Half-hidden in the darkness of the night Last Line: And far away the guns of thunder roar. Subject(s): Storms REEFING TOPSAILS, by WALTER MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Three hand-spike raps on the forward hatch Subject(s): Sea; Storms REFUSING THE SEA, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As headlands weather a gale Subject(s): Storms RIFLEMAN FORM!, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a sound of thunder afar Last Line: Riflemen, riflemen, riflemen form! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The War Subject(s): Fights; Prudence; Rifles; Soldiers; Sound; Storms; Caution 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 ROUNDEL FOR THESE TIMES, by ADELIA DOOLITTLE BAUER Poem Text First Line: Resume your knitting, friend, drop useless care Last Line: The storm tonight brings havoc in its track. Subject(s): Knitting; Storms SAD MADRIGAL, SELECTION, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What care I that you be wise? Last Line: With the storm the bloom appears. Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Storms; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness 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. 1. THE GALE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale green-white, in a gallop across the sky Last Line: His transient tragic destiny. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 3. VARIATIONS: 5. TIDE OF STORMS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crooked, crawling tide with long wet fingers Last Line: Night-winds shall brokenly whisper our bitter, tragic story. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean SAVING A TRAIN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poor old woman lived on the line of the ohio railway Last Line: Which should be written on her tombstone in letters of gold. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Disasters; Heroism; Memory; Railroad Wrecks; Storms; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Train Wrecks SEA IN MY WORDS, by FOLKE ISAKSSON Poem Source First Line: The sea is alwayst in my words Last Line: Into a triumphant arch Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Memory; Sea Voyages; Storms SEA SONG, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our boat to the waves go free Last Line: Fear not we the whirl of the gale. Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Ocean SEA STORM, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening at the calm Last Line: To fortune, %that happened to turn out good that day Subject(s): Storms SEA'S / BOILING -- THE LAND'S, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Snow and hissing %waters Subject(s): Storms SEAWEED, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When descends on the atlantic Last Line: Household words, no more depart. Variant Title(s): The Equinox Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Sea; Seaweed; Storms; Ocean SEDGE SONGS: 2, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft at eve I love to saunter Last Line: Sinks into the silent mere. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Storms; Sunset; Twilight SENLIS: THE LITTLE SILENT STREET, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The stormy silence stirs and hums. Will there be none that this way comes? Last Line: The stormy silence stirs and hums. Will there be none that this way comes? Subject(s): Silence; Storms; Streets; Avenues SHADOW AND SHINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Storms of the winter, and deepening Last Line: And the world was dear to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Sea; Soul; Storms; Winter; Ocean SHE HEARS THE STORM, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a time in former years Last Line: Which earth grants all her kind. Subject(s): Storms SHELTERED FROM HARM, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: With what word should I begin, with what disorder? The Last Line: The boy, accomplice to the wind, moves on, sheltered from harm Subject(s): Danger; Houses; Storms; Wind SIGN ON THE NEW BRIDGE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: (one place at least) %to heal Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins; Storms; Wind SIGNS OF STORM, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With broadened nostrils to the sky upturned Last Line: And forest-rustling mountain comes a voice %that, solemn-sounding, bids the world prepare Subject(s): Animals; Storms SKATE, by NANCY VIEIRA COUTO Poem Source First Line: What she has gotten herself into is a boat Last Line: As if nothing had happened Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Skating And Skaters; Sports; Storms; Women SLEET STORM, by GLENNYS RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: There is a thought that haunts me in the night Last Line: Is pain the only soil where splendor grows? Subject(s): Affliction; Beauty; Ice; Night; Storms; Bedtime SNOW GEESE, by ALAN+(2) SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: When the last asters have withered Last Line: The blizzard comes swiftly behind Subject(s): Geese; Snow; Storms SNOW-STORM, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Large, slow snowflakes fall from an ashen heaven: the noisy Last Line: Shall to the silence descend, lay me to rest in the gloom Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Winter SNOWSTORM IN THE DUSK, by EDWARD SAPIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great dabs of gray Last Line: And there's a moaning, moaning, in the gloom. Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Weather; Winter SOFT HAIL, by KEITH WALDROP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afterward, to tell how it was possible to Subject(s): Motion; Storms; Ships & Shipping SONG A SCHOLAR AND HIS MISTRESS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, look! I see - I see my love appear! Last Line: [they run out together hand in hand. Subject(s): Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Dramatists; Seamen; Sails SONG OF THE ARAUCANS DURING A THUNDER STORM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm cloud grows deeper above Last Line: Waft thither the song of your praise. Subject(s): Chile; Messengers; Reunions; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; Storms SONG OF THE STORM, by SONG CH'UNBOK Poem Source First Line: It was a wind, a peal of thunder Last Line: Nor is my way found on the seas %that ebb in and out Subject(s): Storms SONG: 17, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After great storms the calm returns Last Line: And me also the most happy. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Hearts; Hope; Pain; Storms; Optimism; Suffering; Misery SONGE OF THE SCHIPPE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When surly windes and grewsome cloudes Last Line: The sun may rise upon the morn and guide us to a home! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Storms SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 10, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As sudden winds that freak Last Line: Will tell when love is done. Subject(s): Storms; Love SONNET, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Storm had been on the hills. The day had worn Last Line: Will light upon the dying christian pour. Subject(s): Storms SONNET: 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How darkly o'er yon far-off mountain frowns Last Line: Sigh for the crimes and miseries of mankind! Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SONNET: 18. AN EVENING IN NOVEMBER, WHICH HAD BEEN STORMY ..., by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ceas'd is the rain; but heavy drops yet fall Last Line: The vale's blue rills, and glitter as they flow! Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Storms; Weather SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 156, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My galley charged with forgetfulness Last Line: And I remain despairing of the port. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): "sonnet: 19;the Lover Compareth His State To A Ship In Perilous Storm;the Lover Like To A Ship Tossed On The Sea;sonnet;sonnet: 189;rime 189;""my Galy Charged With Forgetfulnes""; Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SPIRIT OF THE STORM, by LOUISA S. MCCORD Poem Text First Line: Wild spirit of the storm, who rid'st the blast Last Line: Wild spirit of the storm! Like thee, I would be free. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheves, Louisa S. Subject(s): Storms SPRING STORM, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky has given over Last Line: Of the overhanging embankment. Subject(s): Spring; Storms SPRING THUNDER, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I like a storm at may's beginning Last Line: All gaily echo the thunder's roar. Subject(s): Storms SQUALL, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming about, / when the squall knocked her Subject(s): Storms; Sea; Ocean STANZAS COMPOSED DURING A THUNDERSTORM, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chill and mirk is the nightly blast Last Line: And mourns in search of thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Storms STORM, by ROBERT DAVID COHEN Poem Source First Line: Because you have increased my hurt Last Line: Which make me mad in the stark, raving moonlight? Subject(s): Storms STORM, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You crash over the trees Last Line: A green stone. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Storms STORM, by THOMAS DUNCAN Poem Text First Line: The rain beats dark against the glass Last Line: A roof above your head. Subject(s): Storms STORM, by QUINTON DUVAL Poem Source First Line: The rain begins knocking Last Line: They'll go great with this port, %our port, this storm Subject(s): Storms STORM, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Serene was morning with clear, winnowed air Last Line: And over ruined fields the storm hath come! Subject(s): Storms STORM, by ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA Poem Source First Line: There was little to tell it from Last Line: Lay on the ground for weeks afterwards Subject(s): Storms STORM, by ADAM MICKIEWICZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sails shred, the steering goes, and waves roar doom Last Line: Who still knows how to pray, who still has somebody to die with Subject(s): Storms STORM, by RAYMOND QUENEAU Poem Source First Line: Suddenly the storm comes running Last Line: And then goes away %full of himself Subject(s): Storms STORM, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God in me is the fury on the bare heath Last Line: Outside the barred doors of my goneril heart. Subject(s): God; Hearts; Storms STORM, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The narrow lanes are vacant and wet Last Line: Mad and destructive. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Storms STORM, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man on a walk suddenly meets the old Subject(s): Storms STORM, by ROBERT WALLACE Poem Source First Line: Noonlight is sudden full of the spirits Last Line: In these deep, bright ashes Subject(s): Storms STORM AND CALM, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are these kisses of the south Last Line: And rust or rot in idle joy! Subject(s): Arctic; Avalanches; Disasters; Storms STORM AND CALM; FROM THE ALBUM OF THE DUCHESS OF RUTLAND, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At sea when threatening tempests rise Last Line: And bring me back the storm again. Subject(s): Storms STORM AT HOPTIME, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hoptime came with sun and shower Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Harvest; Storms; Hop Gardens STORM AT SEA, by SON OF COLMAN RUMANN Poem Source First Line: Tempest on the plain of lir Last Line: Spare me from the blast of hell Subject(s): Storms STORM AT SEA (1), by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Text First Line: The quarrelling winds perplex me. On this side Last Line: With great holes gaping, rent and torn. Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean STORM AT SEA (2), by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Text First Line: On top of all the rest comes on a new Last Line: We suffered, prove our manhood now! Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean STORM CENTRE, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Past noon, past the strong Last Line: Wrestles the air. Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Storms STORM DANCE, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The water came up with a roar Last Line: And the great gulls laugh, and the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Storms STORM ENDING, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads Subject(s): Storms STORM FEAR, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the wind works against us in the dark Last Line: And save ourselves unaided. Subject(s): Storms STORM FROM THE EAST, by REED WHITTEMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their house faces east, is protected by trees Last Line: Oh, when will the wind die down, weatherman, and let %what is so be so, what prevails prevail? Subject(s): Storms STORM IN APRIL, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some winters, taking leave Last Line: And through chill air the puffs of milkweed hover Subject(s): Storms STORM IN HAWAII, by MAURICE HILL Poem Text First Line: The fiery javelins of heaven are hurled Last Line: Its welcome notes to a golden dawn. Subject(s): Storms STORM IN MID-ATLANTIC, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many have sung of the terrors of storm Last Line: Storm, the matchless artist, lord of colour and line. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Storms STORM IN THE HILLS, by FRANCES DICKENSON PINDER Poem Text First Line: Close on the heel of night there came Last Line: I saw the moonlight on her tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Frances Dickenson; Pinder, F. D. Subject(s): Mountains; Storms; Hills; Downs (great Britain) STORM IN THE NIGHT, by HENRI CAZALIS Poem Text First Line: Up leapt the wave as a wild unbroken stallion Last Line: In thine own image, prone to darkness are we made. Alternate Author Name(s): Lahor, Jean Subject(s): Storms STORM IS OVER, THE LAND HUSHES TO REST, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The night is come. The land is wrapt in sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Storms STORM LINES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the rains of november are dark on the hills Last Line: Years! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Storms STORM LULLABY, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Held in the refuge of your arms Last Line: Deep is the breast of love to me. Subject(s): Dreams; Sanctuaries; Storms; Nightmares STORM ON LAKE ASQUAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud, like that the old-time hebrew saw Last Line: Spent broken clouds the rainbow's angel spanned. Subject(s): Asquam, Lake; Lakes; Storms; Pools; Ponds STORM ON SEACONNET, by GEORGE SHEPARD BURLEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round and red in a golden haze Last Line: Of the island cliff as they backward rolled. Subject(s): Seaconnet Point, Rhode Island; Storms STORM POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is eating Last Line: For you %let the windteeth break Subject(s): Storms; Weather; Wind STORM SIGNALS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cloud-wreath, mist-sheath Last Line: The foam is bound to fly! Subject(s): New York City - Dutch Period; Sea; Storms; Ocean STORM'S PAST, by ALICE FERRIN HENSEY Poem Text First Line: Whirl of wet rose leaves on the gravelled path Last Line: "these sing to summer dusk, ""storm's past! Storm's past!" Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Storms STORM-FRAGMENTS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm had raved its furious soul away Last Line: Through new infernos, shifted to -- the sky! Subject(s): Storms STORM-LOVER, by MAUD LUDINGTON CAIN Poem Text First Line: Bid me not stay within! I must go out to meet the wild Last Line: Will never hear ... Will answer not at all ... Subject(s): Storms STORM-MUSIC, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O music has thou only heard Last Line: And harmony the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Storms STORM-SONG, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds are scudding across the moon Last Line: Be it still with a cheery heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Storms STORM-WAVES AND FOG ON DORR'S POINT, BAR HARBOR, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fog's gray curtain round me draws Last Line: And then no more. Subject(s): Fog; Harbors; Sea; Storms; Waves; Haze; Ocean STORM; MINERVA'S PETITION, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pallas, a goddess chaste and wise Last Line: She left him virtue for a guard Subject(s): Storms STORMS, by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After her tired dogs Subject(s): Rain; Storms STORMS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: She fears not me Last Line: Back to my breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Storms; Worship STORMS, by JOSEPH UPPER HARRIS Poem Text First Line: In the basin of the fountain, after the storm Last Line: There is no such peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Anger; Emotions; Storms STORMY NIGHTS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cry out war to those who spend their utmost Last Line: And show you st francis of assisi. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Storms STORMY PETRELS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When down the gray atlantic drives the flaw Last Line: The clarion lips of storm! Subject(s): Storms SUMMER STORM, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Heaviness explodes in the trees Last Line: Body singing the word Subject(s): Storms SUMMER STORM, by THELMA GREEN Poem Text First Line: The cloud, like a raging demon Last Line: Soft and fair and laughing. Subject(s): Storms SUMMER STORM, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day the storm's Subject(s): Storms SUMMER STORM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Untremulous in the river clear Last Line: Silent and few, are drifting over me. Subject(s): Nature; Storms; Summer SUMMER STORM, by JANE RICHTER Poem Text First Line: Swiftly rush the storm clouds Last Line: Silence, sunlight glinting on wet roof-tops. Subject(s): Clouds; Rain; Storms; Summer SUMMER STORM, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The panther wind Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Storms SUMMER STORM IN LOS ANGELES, by ETHELEAN TYSON GAW Poem Text First Line: When a july storm sweeps down the blue black Last Line: "diverting." Subject(s): Los Angeles; Storms; Summer SUMMER STORM IN SICILY, by LAURA ANNA STORTONI Poem Source First Line: After the summer storm Last Line: Hiding %in the palace of the wind Subject(s): Italy; Rain; Storms SUN STORM, by TSERING WANGMO Poem Source First Line: Like brides behind veils, my people peep from drawn curtains and feel the air Last Line: With it all. It was all fate Subject(s): Storms; Sun SUNRISE WITH SEA MONSTER, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Well, we either do it or we don't, as the pigeon said to the loaf Last Line: But no diminishment, as in 'fancy' and 'open fifths' and environmental sweepstakes' Subject(s): Clouds; Environment; Sea Monsters; Storms; Weather SURFEIT, by LINDA LAETSCH Poem Text First Line: Rage, storm; and howl, winds Last Line: "you told me nothing I did not know." Subject(s): Storms TAKE HEART!, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the stormy wind has blown Last Line: To greet thee in immortal year! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Storms; Fall TEMPEST, by ANITA CONCHITA ALLMON Poem Text First Line: Black night of chaos Last Line: To them all. Subject(s): Storms TEMPEST, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: In the morning, leaving a shore the color Last Line: Our prow like a body made of tears Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Storms TEMPEST AND THE CALM, by JUAN DE ARGUIJO Poem Source First Line: Sudden I saw the ruddy sun to turn Last Line: Wherein the image of my fortune lies Subject(s): Storms; Thunder; Weather TEMPEST NIGHT, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: Wind in the void, where the white stars shake Last Line: And the night hangs heavily years and years? Subject(s): Sea; Sea Voyages; Storms; Weather; Wind; Ocean TEMPEST-TOST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: In a flash the rain roars down Last Line: There's a whispering promise-refrain. Subject(s): Love; Prayer; Rain; Salvation; Storms THE 'DISASTER', by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without rudder, without sail Last Line: Lost -- exultant, desolate! Subject(s): Disasters; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Soul; Storms; Wind; Bedtime; Ocean THE ANACREONTICS: 7, by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O happy plane, thou prosperous tree! Last Line: Still rages in my troubled breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Subject(s): Storms; Trees THE BOMBARDMENT, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly, without force, the rain drops into the city Last Line: Roars and mutters. Boom! Subject(s): Bombs; Rain; Storms THE CALM [CALME], by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our storm is past, and that storm's tyrannous rage Last Line: I should not then thus feele this miserie. Variant Title(s): Early Verse Letters: The Calm Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean THE CENTENNIAL YEAR, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years - and she had sat, a queen Last Line: No pledge less true for her centennial year. Subject(s): Bells; Freedom; Peace; Storms; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Liberty THE CLOUDS ABOVE THE OCEAN, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds above the ocean of mexico – how palable they are Last Line: With his surrender a minor event already lost from memory Subject(s): Clouds; Storms 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 COMING OF THE STORM. TWO PICTURES: 1, by CORNELIA ELIZABETH GREEN Poem Text First Line: The far off clouds are one dark purple mass Last Line: In yellow splendor on the river grass. Subject(s): Storms; Wellesley College THE COMING OF THE STORM. TWO PICTURES: 2, by CORNELIA ELIZABETH GREEN Poem Text First Line: The golden glory fades from grass and tree Last Line: That shaking flash of light! The storm is here. Subject(s): Storms; Wellesley College THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INSIDE AND OUTSIDE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn the sky is chrome yellow. We turn over Subject(s): Storms; Love THE END OF VIGIL, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night I am held in the sound Subject(s): Storms THE FALL WIND, by JOHN STUART THOMSON Poem Text First Line: The wind has stalked adown the garden path Last Line: Wing south or somewhere; mute, discouraged band. Subject(s): Autumn; Leaves; Seasons; Storms; Wind; Fall THE FARTHEST THUNDER THAT I HEARD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Its explanation found Subject(s): Storms THE FIFTEEN DAYS OF JUDGEMENT, by SEBASTIAN EVANS Poem Text First Line: Then there shall be signs in heaven Last Line: Mark yon shadow on the dial! Subject(s): God; Heaven; Judgment Day; Ruins; Storms; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE GARDEN UNDER LIGHTNING, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the storm that muffles shining night Last Line: And vanishes! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Lightning; Storms; Lightning Rods THE HIGHLAND STORM, by ANNE LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where, my love, where art thou going? Last Line: Cruven elin, evin oge. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnard, Lady Anne Subject(s): Love; Storms THE HOMEWARD-BOUND PASSENGER SHIP: DISASTER AT SEA, by EDWARD EDWIN FOOT Poem Text First Line: The captain scans the ruffled zone Last Line: ^1^ a figurative expression, intended by the author to signify the horizon. Subject(s): Disasters; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean THE IMPROVISATORE: ALBERT AND EMILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the evening of a summer day Last Line: A downy perfume whispers in the air. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Insanity; Lightning; Love; Nature; Rain; Sleep; Storms; Summer; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Lightning Rods THE JOB, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But, god, it won't come right! It won't come right! Last Line: —from sky lines and wood smoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Creation; Lightning; Rain; Storms; Thought; Thunder; Lightning Rods; Thinking THE KESSACK FERRY-BOAT FATALITY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on friday the 2nd of march in the year of 1894 Last Line: While the storm fiend did laugh and angry did rave. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Storms; Survival; Tragedy; Dead, The THE LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Celia and I the other day Last Line: I with thee, or without thee, die! Subject(s): Fate; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Destiny; Ocean THE LINES OF HER WARY BODY..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lines of her wary body lure the eye Last Line: Till love clear cool of passion and of hate! Subject(s): Bodies; Storms; Thought; Thinking THE MAN IN THE CAB, by NIXON WATERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Safe and snug in the sleeping-car Last Line: Of the man in the greasy overalls. Alternate Author Name(s): Martin, Peter Subject(s): Disasters; Railroad Wrecks; Storms; Train Wrecks THE MARINER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god! Have mercy in this dreadful hour Last Line: O god! Have mercy on the mariner! Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 14. During A Tempest Subject(s): God; Mercy; Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Ocean THE MARRIAGE OF EARTH AND HEAVEN, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hera, tall and fair and young, / walked on ida's hill Last Line: Sung their silver marriage song. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Greece; Marriage; Mythology; Spring; Storms; Greeks; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MOONLIGHT STORM, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely night! Serenely clear the sky Last Line: For I'm akin to it—our spirits are the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Storms; Weather THE MOTHER'S SACRIFICE, by SEBA SMITH Poem Text First Line: The cold winds swept the mountain's height Last Line: The babe looked up and sweetly smiled! Alternate Author Name(s): Downing, Major Jack Variant Title(s): The Mother In The Snow-storm Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sacrifices; Storms; Childhood THE MOUNTAIN STORM, by MILLARD FILLMORE BUMGARNER Poem Text First Line: Stand up on high, ye crags and peaks Last Line: And sunshine paints the crags again. Subject(s): Mountains; Storms; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE OMINOUS TIMES, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Ominous are the times. They seem to be Last Line: And pious lips to pray unto their lord. Subject(s): Lightning; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Lightning Rods; Ocean THE OPEN WORLD, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am swept with the storm of life Last Line: Where tempests are bred. Subject(s): Storms THE QUARREL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They faced each other: topaz Last Line: Like drowning gems were turned on him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Hate; Quarrels; Sea; Storms; Arguments; Disagreements; Ocean THE RAIN COMES, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind and rain and lightest snow Last Line: Still she sits unheeding there. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Storms; Water; Lightning Rods THE RIDE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The horse beneath me seemed Subject(s): Dreams; Horseback Riding; Storms; Nightmares THE RISING OF THE STORM, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lake's dark breast Last Line: As the storm went raging by! Subject(s): Storms 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 SHOWER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The landscape, like the awed face of a child Last Line: Drenched with the love of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Soul; Storms THE SIGHING OF THE BOEHMER WALD, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One morn I read the brief memorial lines Last Line: The forest's dying voice across the seas. Subject(s): Bohemian Forest, Europe; Storms THE SNOW-STORM, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Announced by all the trumpets 0f the sky, / arrives the snow Last Line: The frolic architecture of the snow. Variant Title(s): The Snowstorm Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Storms; Wind THE SOUL'S STORM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It struck me every day / the lightning was as new Last Line: And left it in the sky. Variant Title(s): Poem: 362 Subject(s): Soul; Storms THE SOUTH-WESTER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day of the cloud in fleets! O day Last Line: A morning in the eyes of eve. Subject(s): Clouds; Storms THE SOWERS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woe to the seed Last Line: It finds a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Rain; Sea; Storms; Water; Ocean THE SQUALL, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It swoops gray-winged across the obliterated hills Last Line: Forgiven! Subject(s): Storms THE STAMPEDE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lightning tossed its tangled boughs Last Line: Lest they should rise again. Subject(s): Cattle; Lightning; Storms; Lightning Rods THE STAR OF THE SEA, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many a mighty ship Last Line: Star of the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Stars; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean THE STORM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "blow, boreas, blow, and let thy surly winds" Last Line: "no, never to drown a good fellow" Subject(s): Storms THE STORM, by ANNA A. ARMBRUSTER Poem Text First Line: A storm rides in the sky Last Line: Of nature, man, and god. Subject(s): Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Storms THE STORM, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sky beyond words! Elysian-field Last Line: Our hopes ran out for sympathy? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Storms THE STORM, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind was a crowd Last Line: In my mother's warm hand. Subject(s): Storms THE STORM, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How with ill nature does this world abound! Last Line: I'll thence ride post to kiss your lordship's hand. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Storms THE STORM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came a wind like a bugle Last Line: And yet abide the world! Subject(s): Storms THE STORM, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The italian police stopped us today Subject(s): Italy; Storms; Automobiles; Italians; Cars THE STORM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A howling storm is brewing Last Line: She stares into the night. Subject(s): Storms THE STORM, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If as the windes and waters here below Last Line: They purge the aire without, within the breast. Subject(s): Repentance; Storms; Penitence THE STORM, by DOROTHY W. JANS Poem Text First Line: Mad swirling wind Last Line: As the storm wind dies. Subject(s): Rain; Storms; Thunder; Wind THE STORM, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ran to the forest for shelter Last Line: And the trees swung together and delicately laughed. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Storms THE STORM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in bed and hear the storm cavorting on Last Line: Weather misbehaves, a whoop-la he can raise. Subject(s): Snow; Storms; Winter THE STORM, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the pale blue haze above Last Line: Brought thither from the blossom'd limes. Subject(s): Love; Storms THE STORM, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tempest rages wild and high Last Line: Gloria tibi domine. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Ocean THE STORM, by AMY RANDALL Poem Text First Line: On the high-road Last Line: As each bullet strikes a leaf. Subject(s): Storms THE STORM, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The sun sank in a sheer abyss of cloud Last Line: Upon the fallen tree, shout as they play. Subject(s): Lightning; Sea Voyages; Storms; Weather; Wind; Lightning Rods THE STORM, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say it is the wind in midnight skies Last Line: Leaves us half blinded by god's element. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Storms THE STORM, by GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cease, rude boreas, blustering railer! Last Line: She rights! She rights, boys! We're off shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevens, G. A. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Ocean THE STORM, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of you when I was wakened Last Line: You were the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Storms THE STORM - A HARVEST MEMORY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The specialities of that dark hour of grief Last Line: And shall thy loving kindness have less power? Subject(s): Harvest; Storms THE STORM HUSHED, by JOHN NEWTON Poem Text First Line: Tis past -- the dreadful stormy night Last Line: My heart, my all, to thee. Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean THE STORM IS OVER, by GRAYCE FERBITZ KNUDSON Poem Text First Line: Low in the west, the sun imparts a glow Last Line: Is ever followed by tranquility. Subject(s): Storms THE STORM KING TRAIL, by GRACE PATCHEN LEGGETT Poem Text First Line: Looming dark against the sky Last Line: Leaving it fresh and gleaming. Subject(s): Storms THE STORM SHIP, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her sails are wove of the fogs that flee Last Line: For the waves wax rich where the storm ship rides. Subject(s): New York City - Colonial Period; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE STORM-KING, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand back! Stand back / from my giant track! Last Line: I am monarch, and earth must obey! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Earth; Storms; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; World THE STORM-PAINTER IN HIS DUNGEON, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight, and silence deep! Last Line: Answer, my spirit! -- answer, storm and night! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Prisons & Prisoners; Storms; Convicts THE STORMY EVENING CLOSES NOW IN VAIN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My rescued sailor shares the fire with me Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Storms; Sea; Home; Love THE SUMMER STORM, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At noon-time I stood in the door-way to see Last Line: And talked of their homesteads instead of their hay. Subject(s): Farm Life; Storms; Agriculture; Farmers THE TAY BRIDGE DISEASTER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful railway bridge of the silv'ry tay! Last Line: The less chance we have of being killed. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Railroad Wrecks; Storms; Dead, The; Train Wrecks THE TEMPEST, by HUMPHRY DAVY Poem Text First Line: The tempest has darken'd the face of the skies Last Line: And rise to the morning of heavenly day. Subject(s): Storms THE TEMPEST, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were crowded in the cabin Last Line: When the morn was shining clear. Variant Title(s): Ballad Of The Tempest;the Captain's Daughter Subject(s): Storms; Trust THE THUNDER STORM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Above the heavens are flaming Last Line: I would know that thou art near. Subject(s): Earth; Lightning; Storms; Weather; World; Lightning Rods THE THUNDER-STORM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep, fiery clouds o'ercast the sky Last Line: And be with him at last? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Storms; Thunder THE THUNDER-STORM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I came with a roar from the western sky Last Line: Till he beckons me forth again. Subject(s): Storms THE TWO HOMES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My home was seated high and fair Last Line: "and the weary life of the valley!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Home; Storms; Nightmares THE WANDERER, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have grown weary of the open sea Last Line: A little hour of peace, a little sun! Subject(s): Poseidon (mythology); Sea; Singing & Singers; Storms; Wandering & Wanderers; Ocean THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE STORM, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both hollow and hill were as dumb as death Last Line: With the dew on its delicate sheath! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Storms; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WEST WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come from out the west Last Line: Wild tempests to each shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Spring; Storms; Wind; Winter THE WHITE BIRCH, by GLADYS GUILFORD SCOTT Poem Text First Line: The young white birch was slender and frail Last Line: Splashing her leaves at the sky. Subject(s): Storms 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 WIFE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The day was fair, the wind blew steadily Last Line: Stunned by the thought of our own littleness. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Dead, The; Parting; Ocean THE WIND, by LOUIS MERCIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All last night and all day long Last Line: He moves off. They can hear him in the leaves. Subject(s): Homeless; Storms; Weather; Wind THE WINDY DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The wind was very bad that day Last Line: And never came again that day. Subject(s): March (month); Storms; Wind THE WRAITH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mist commingled with her tears Last Line: Forsakes the watery grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ocean 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 '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 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 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 YOUNG MYSTIC, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat together close and warm Last Line: "I saw him strike a match!" Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Lightning; Storms; Youth; Lightning Rods THERE IS A SOLEMN WIND TONIGHT, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Shakes on the quiet ground Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Storms THEY HAVE A NAME FOR IT, by ANDREW FELD Poem Source First Line: Of course. So when the season was called off Last Line: Costs more than you could ever afford Subject(s): Memory; Seashore; Storms THIS-THAT, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: It scratches on the door Last Line: Rocked in the wind's cradle Subject(s): Emptiness; Grief; Rain; Storms; Water; Wind THUNDER MUTTERS LOUDER AND MORE LOUD, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In the sweet hay yet dry the hay folks cower %& some beneath the waggon shun the shower Subject(s): Storms THUNDER STORM, by MARY F. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Loud, louder still, resounds the thundering peal Last Line: And let my soul from grandeur's fountain drink. Alternate Author Name(s): Moncrieff, Mary F. Johnson Subject(s): Storms THUNDERSTORM, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The smiths of the heavens are mending the weather Last Line: Proclaims to the world that the weather is mended. Subject(s): New York City - Dutch Period; Storms THUNDERSTORM, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A moment the wild swallows, like a flight Last Line: Column on column comes the drenching rain Subject(s): Storms THUNDERSTORM VERSE FROM SUSSEX, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Beware of the oak; it draws the stroke Last Line: Avoid the ash; it courts the flash; %creep under a thorn; it can save you from harm Subject(s): Storms THUNDERSTORMS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My mind has thunderstorms Last Line: And joyful singing birds. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Storms TIS EVENING NOW, THE SUN DESCENDS, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Morning; Evening; Storms; Sunset; Twilight TO A SEAMEW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I had wings, my brother Last Line: Beachy head, september, 1886. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Wings; Nightmares TO LADY AUSTEN, WRITTEN IN RAINY WEATHER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To watch the storms, and hear the sky Last Line: And no ambition to have more. Subject(s): Floods; Storms TO LICINIUS (HORACE PARAPHRASED), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Licinius, wouldst thou wisely steer Last Line: And timely reef thy sails. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Storms TO THE CONQUERORS OF THE AIR, by WILNA WIGGINTON Poem Text First Line: I am the great adventurer-the geni of all romance Last Line: I climb or fall ten thousand feet into the arms of god. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Explorers; Storms; Thunder; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers TO THE MAN-OF-WAR-BIRD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who hast slept all night upon the storm Last Line: What joys! What joys were thine! Subject(s): Birds; Hawks; Storms TO THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chaunt on, ye stormy voices, loud and shrill Last Line: As when man, from his hands, in his beauty came! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Storms TOKENS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green mwold on zummer bars do show Last Line: To eyezight's woone, but two to thought. Subject(s): Grass; Seasons; Storms; Summer; Winter TREMENDOUS WIND AND RAIN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Now a resident of paradise Subject(s): New York City; Storms TRISTIA: WINTER AT TOMI, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snow lies deep: nor sun nor melting shower Last Line: And horses' hoofs ring loud where once their oarsmen plied. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Death; Snow; Storms; Winter; Dead, The TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 1. THE SAILING OF THE SWALLOW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the middle music of the spring Last Line: And their four lips became one burning mouth. Subject(s): God; Ireland; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Spring; Storms; Irish TUMULT, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You came -- and like a stormy wind your love Last Line: In troubled multitude, broken and blind. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Storms; Mobs; Crowds 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 TWO HULAS: THE STORM, by WALKER WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: Puna has paddled all night in the storm Last Line: At the story he'll tell of his night in the hag's arms. Subject(s): Storms TWO POINTS OF VIEW, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Terrible waves! In fierce, unearthly chorus Last Line: The once-dark waves gleam bright—each loss appears a gain. Subject(s): Death; Sea; Storms; Waves; Dead, The; Ocean UNBENDING 'MIDST THE WINTRY SKIES, by PIETRO METASTASIO Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: He proudly struggles there Alternate Author Name(s): Trapassi, Pietro Antonio Domenico Subject(s): Storms; Perseverance UNCLE, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: It never rains in kauai,' the resort manager bragged Last Line: Ready to explode, fire in the hold Subject(s): Chaos; Rain; Storms UNDAUNTED EVERGREENS, by MARY JANE CARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The evergreens stand proudly now Last Line: And sing triumphantly of spring! Subject(s): Storms; Trees; Winter UNDINE: THE SONG OF THE UNDINES OR WATER-SPIRITS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We dwell in the depths of the opaline sea Last Line: Are but for a day! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Rest; Seashore; Storms; Beach; Coast; Shore UNTITLED, by JIM KACIAN Poem Source First Line: Stormcloudstor cloudstormcloudstormcloud Last Line: Storm loudstormc ourdstormclo dst rmcloud Subject(s): Clouds; Storms VACUUM, by LEE WILSON DODD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That evening - wow! That evening Last Line: "nearer my god to thee --" Subject(s): Parties; Storms VILLAGE SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full are my pitchers and far to carry Last Line: Ram re ram! I shall die. Subject(s): Folk Songs - Indian; Storms; Survival VIOLENT STORM, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those who have chosen to pass the night Subject(s): Pessimism; Storms VIOLENT STORM, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those who have chosen to pass the night Last Line: That shared our wakefulness are dimming %and the dark brushes against our eyes Subject(s): Pessimism; Storms 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 WAIT A WHILE!, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because my lightnings are so striking Last Line: And many a steeple proud give way. Subject(s): Storms WAITING FOR THE STORM, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning sun struck, like flint, the banked Subject(s): Boats; Storms WAR HERO, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where recollections end, Subject(s): Grandparents; Storms; Oak Trees; Children; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Childhood WE TWO SHALL MOVE TO FAIRY PLACES, by HOWARD PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Claimed of gold heat Last Line: "in a wind, like the trot of a red horse, on a walk, trotted for miles!" Subject(s): Dawn; Fairies; Storms; Sunrise; Elves WHEN SHE LEFT ME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It missed, first left, then right Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Lightning; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Storms WHERE ARMIES MET, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the distant summons loud Last Line: The silence of the shrouding snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Storms WHITE SQUALL, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On deck, beneath the awning Subject(s): Storms WILD WEATHER, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea was wild. The wind was proud Last Line: Oh, we ran far! Oh, we ran free! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Storms WILD WEATHER OUTSIDE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild weather outside where the brave ships go Last Line: Where the sweet wife smiles in the cottage door. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Storms WIND, by VENO TAUFER Poem Source First Line: From the south you bring rain Last Line: Plague breaaths flower seeds %blow blow Subject(s): Rain; Sailors And Sailing; Storms; Weather; Wind WIND BEGUN TO KNEAD THE GRASS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Just quartering a tree Variant Title(s): A Thunder-storm (1st Version); Poem: 824 (1 Subject(s): Storms WIND WILL COME FROM THE SOUTH, by CIRCE MAIA Poem Source First Line: A wind will come from the south with unleashed rain Last Line: Down the stairs, from the balconies, %calling to each other Subject(s): Cleanliness; Human Rights; Rain; Storms; Wind WINDY DAY AT KABEKONA, by THOMAS R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Only a picture window stands between us and the full force of gusts Last Line: Torn from its place Subject(s): Storms; Wind WINSTANLEY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quoth the cedar to the reeds and rushes Last Line: Winstanley lieth low. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Storms; Winstanley, Gerrard (1609-1660); Bedtime; Ocean; Songs WRITTEN DURING A STORM OF WIND, by SUSAN EVANCE Poem Text First Line: Cease your desolating sound Last Line: —winds, in pity blow no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance Subject(s): Storms; Wind WRITTEN IN A THUNDERSTORM, 15 JULY 1841, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heavens are wroth; the thunder's rattling peal Subject(s): Apathy; Storms WRITTEN TO A NEAR NEIGBOUR IN A TEMPESTUOUS NIGHT, 1748, by HENRIETTA (ST. JOHN) KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: You bid my muse not cease to sing Last Line: Th' intoxicated poet's bane. Alternate Author Name(s): Luxborough, Lady Subject(s): Solitude; Storms; Loneliness |
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