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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SURVIVAL Matches Found: 197 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SHELF IS A LEDGE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't understand by what perversity Last Line: As he screams in the dark: survive! Survive! Subject(s): Books; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Inanimate Objects; Survival; Reading A SUCCESFUL SPECIES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horeshoe crabs, which are not crabs at all Last Line: But the one success of species is to endure Subject(s): Survival A TALE OF THE SEA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold Last Line: Will think of the hardships of poor mariners while at sea. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Hunger; Sea; Survival; Ocean ACROSS THE RIVER, TO THE EAST, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: A young roebuck darts across a clearing. The ancient shot Last Line: Is no other way, let it fall-that last foundation of the citadel Subject(s): Nature; Survival AD ASTRA: 103, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The thousand questions that come surging in Last Line: That all life's beauty is for ever fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Life; Survival AFTER CATULLUS, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN Poem Source First Line: Like a dumb fish suffering Last Line: Yet still panting for the bait Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Fishing And Fishermen; Survival AFTER THE FOURTH ICE STORM, by ANNE SHELDON Poem Source First Line: A bird could walk the crust but no bird does Last Line: Nothing here remembers what it was Subject(s): Ice; Survival; Winter AFTER THE PLANE CRASH, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: My second day in the hospital Last Line: I thought, and looked harder, %taking every little last thing in Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Blood; Healing; Hospitality; Miracles; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets; Survival AGING FATHER LOSES HIS CHILDREN, by ROBERT PETERS Poem Source First Line: A hitherto placid river stirred Last Line: Off sohre, near the beach, %where he breathed Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Fathers; Survival AN EXCURSION STEAMER SUNK IN THE TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1888, and on july the 14th day Last Line: And enjoy yourselves heartily during the holiday time. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Survival; Tragedy; Dead, The ANA IN MIAMI, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Every morning in miami Last Line: Is one more morning's blessing Subject(s): Cuba; Exiles; Miami, Florida; Survival; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ANCHORAGE, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This city is made of stone, of blood, and fish Last Line: To survive? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; Survival; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Indians Of America; American Indians; ANIMALS' RETURN, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: Mostly deer. Walking around the back yard Last Line: Won't believe the future means exactly us, ourselves Subject(s): Animals; Deer; Survival ANNIE WEATHERBY, by BOB KAVEN Poem Source First Line: Father woke me. He claimed the house was burning Last Line: Like a quick, small engine. I told them to leave Subject(s): Family Life; Fire; Survival APOTHEOSIS OF MASTER SERGEANT DOE, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, dear master sergeant to the fold Last Line: A blood-red streamer %in monrovian skies, a lamppost and-theswinging %redeemer Subject(s): Admiration; Human Rights; Leadership; Military; Patriotism; Survival AQUARIUM, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Water tends to occupy the spaces love cannot reach Last Line: The sea is afraid of falling into the earth Subject(s): Disasters; Rain; Shipwrecks; Survival; Thirst; Water AUGUST MORNING, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: The sun beats the water to hammered aluminum Last Line: Of ancient urns come to us dancing, hand the invisible line along Subject(s): Drowning; Lifeguards; Saint Kilda (scotland); Survival AWAY! AWAY! AWAY! AWAY!, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Her fame I will repair Subject(s): Survival BECAUSE WORDS HAVE NO EFFECT UPON THE WIND, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is to stay alive Subject(s): Language; Wind; Trees; Survival BLIZZARD: APRIL 4, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: Spring creeps into the city Last Line: Close to the warm, black stove Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival BLOOD, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pen filled with ink dark Last Line: Leaves of grass, and went to war Subject(s): Blood; Survival BLOOD IS A NEST, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The blood is a nest of feathers Last Line: The questions stayed behind %in my flight Variant Title(s): Blood Nes Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Exiles; Human Rights - Argentina; Survival BLUE HARE, by KEVIN BLACK Poem Source First Line: In the resuscitation room Last Line: And he leapt the fence out of the bog %into the green meadow Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Survival BORN INTO A WORLD KNOWING, by SUSAN GRIFFIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This will happen Last Line: In the fresh snow. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Survival; Childhood; Parenthood BUTTERFLIES, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Butterflies have no wings Last Line: So that the butterfly shall be harder to swallow Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Survival; Wings BY THE RIVERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That spring he was fourteen Last Line: By the rivers of salt. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Duty; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Survival; Shoah; Judaism CAMPING IN THE HOUSE, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: No cooking. %no warm water Last Line: I can't believe it's even our house Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival CARNAGE: 1. DOUBT, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So thin, so frail the opalescent ice Last Line: Is hell so near to every human heart? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Doubt; Peace; Sacrifices; Survival; World War I; Skepticism; First World War CHRISTMAS BOX, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: Red and silver garland Last Line: They're survivors of the flood - %like us.' Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival CLAY, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: Beasts of clay. Birds of salt. Humans of iron Last Line: Hollowing out each other's cheeks Subject(s): Birds; Roosters; Survival CLEANUP: MAY 5, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: My feet shiver in the big gray boots Last Line: But sarah's dolls must all be gone Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival CLIMBIN IN, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teeth Last Line: Head over tail %down the clinking gullet Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Survival COMPASS CREEK, by RON RASH Poem Source First Line: Wading across he had lost Last Line: Slick rocks to where he had lost %what neither wanted to find Subject(s): Brooks; Survival CONCUSSED, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: There was no oh god, oh shit Last Line: That makes us human reentered %and found me brain-bruised survivor Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Bruises; Nome, Alaska; Survival COPE'S RULE, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: According to edward drinker cope, Subject(s): Size & Shape; Marriage; Survival; Height; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CROSSING THE BAR', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the moaning bar Last Line: Returning safe from sea Subject(s): Sea; Danger; Survival DALAI LAMA, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From between the pages Subject(s): Survival DANGER, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: The newspaper says Last Line: I wish they could tell me what happened to my cat Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival DAUGHTER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: One day I'll give birth to a tiny baby girl Last Line: And never let them know you remember Subject(s): Daughters; Girls; Strength; Survival DEAR ROBERT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your roses are blooming in a basket Last Line: In its receptive soil Subject(s): Roses; Poetry & Poets; Survival; Perseverance DORA MARKUS, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was where the wooden bridge Last Line: But it is late, always later and later Subject(s): Survival DUCKS, by MARTHA ZWEIG Poem Source First Line: Maybe a murder Last Line: Wacks in preamble, %backtalk & sass Subject(s): Animals; Ducks; Survival DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: During the second world war, I was going home one night Subject(s): World War Ii; Sons; Survival; Thanksgiving; Second World War EAT, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was always dusk Last Line: Eat, I wishper into his ear Subject(s): Dusk; Food And Eating; Survival ELSEWHERE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This isn't italy where even / the dust is sexual, and I am not Last Line: The woman she becomes, who could not or would not save her Subject(s): Life; Survival ELSEWHERE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This isn't italy where even %the dust is sexual, and I am not Last Line: The woman she becomes, who could not %or would not save her Subject(s): Life; Survival ESCAPING, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: He was the only one who succeeded in escaping Last Line: And his name. It was moses Subject(s): Gratitude; Moses; Survival ESSENTIAL, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You'll never get anywhere Last Line: "ambish!" Subject(s): Perseverance; Survival FABLE OF SURVIVAL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of my neighbors began digging himself Last Line: That's when I understood about survival Subject(s): Survival FIRE_FLOWERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And only where the forest fires have sped Last Line: And life revives, and blossoms once again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Fire; Forests; Nature; Survival; Woods FLEEING: JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT: APRIL 18, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: Most things you lie awake and worry about Last Line: Away from our home Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival FOR KAREN (NIGHT SHIFT), by MELODY GOETZ Poem Source First Line: Your pain comes to you slowly Last Line: O you courage %o you love Subject(s): Pain; Survival GETTING THROUGH, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to apologize Last Line: If there's an april %in the last frail snow of april %they will knock hard to be born Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Snow; Survival 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 GIVES TO EVERY BIRD ITS PROPER FOOD BUT THEY MUST ALL FLY FOR IT', by DICK ALLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My aunt, drowning in birdcalls, telephones Last Line: The evening grosbeak, and the rapt bluejays Subject(s): Birds; Survival GOD'S LEASH, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): God; Survival GOING BACK: MAY 3, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: All winter, cars leaped Last Line: Every story is sad Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival GOING HOME, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Everyday you were dying Last Line: Be, flying straight right out of here Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Courage; Survival 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 HALF BILLION - MORE OR LESS, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I asked an agricultural economist how Last Line: At a population of twenty billion, more %or less Subject(s): Future; Life; Medicine; Physicians; Survival HALF RATIONS, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He did not sweat. Even in hot weather Last Line: The need he confined himself to in this life Subject(s): Survival; Food & Eating HE CAUGHT A PTARMIGAN, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source Last Line: But even today miracles can occur Subject(s): Food And Eating; Gratitude; Miracles; Survival HOTEL ST. LOUIS, NEW YORK CITY, FALL 1969, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I went inside, the manager said, `you don't want to live Last Line: Sunday mornings, a bright orange football helmet that glowed like the sun. Subject(s): Hotels; New York City; Survival; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple HOW TO SURVIVE NUCLEAR WAR; AFTER READING IBUSE'S 'BLACK RAIN', by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brought low in kyoto Last Line: The enemies of despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Survival; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb HUMMINGBIRD HEART, by ELIZABETH HAUKAAS Poem Source First Line: Primo levi watches a man eat Last Line: Understands that the line between what happens to one man and another %is fragile, eggshell Subject(s): Survival I WANT TO LIVE, by TIM SHEA Poem Source First Line: Your skin, colored Last Line: Softly %on my voice Subject(s): Survival I'M LOOKING FOR ANOTHER PERSONA, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: A poor immigrant's? A rich transvestite's? Last Line: Notice little, %except maybe temptation Subject(s): Survival IMPROVISATION, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: A change of season, rain, water Last Line: Must be rebuilt Subject(s): Survival IN A FOREST, by SHERKO BEKAS Poem Source First Line: Darkness came %and in its lair, a lion thought Last Line: How could she, she wondered Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Human Rights; Hunger; Hunting; Survival IN THE ANCHOR TAVERN, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: That next week, when I stopped in the anchor Last Line: Crashed into a hill. Walking dead man. %nome's walking dead man. There he goes' Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation And Aviators; Life; Nome, Alaska; Survival INDIAN SONG: SURVIVAL, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We went north Subject(s): Survival INDIAN SONG: SURVIVAL, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We went north Last Line: I am the lean gray deer %running on the edge of the rainbow Subject(s): Survival INSTINCT OF SELF-PRESERVATION, by NANNI BALESTRINI Poem Source First Line: What matters here is (can a fish live Last Line: At the base of the tower, drinking with huge gulps Subject(s): Survival ITS FORTH ACROSS THE ROARING FOAM, AND ON TOWARDS THE WEST, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Against the gates of darkness as beside the gates of gold Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Travel; God; Faith; Survival JOY OF FLIGHT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think of this Last Line: In memory of your dream Subject(s): Flight; Dreams; Survival JUNIOR LIFESAVING, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Class, I say, this is %the front head release Last Line: I tell you what I know: %go down to save Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Learning; Lifeguards; Survival; Swimming; Teaching And Teachers; Water JUST IN CASE, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: At supper, %everyone is as quiet Last Line: Just %in %case Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival LATE SPRING IN THE NUCLEAR AGE; FOR CLARE ROSSINI, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fish hit water nymphs, breaking surface Last Line: That our deaths will not be the last. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Death; Nuclear War; Survival; Nuclear Freeze; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb LES GRANDES PASSIONS MANQUEES, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had she survived her immolation Last Line: Was earthen and too insipid to burn Subject(s): Fire; Passion; Survival LES GRANDES PASSIONS MANQUEES, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had she survived her immolation Last Line: Was earthen and too insipid to burn Subject(s): Fire; Passion; Survival LETTER FROM A RUBBER RAFT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every sleep is a new confusion of hope Last Line: I may live another day Subject(s): Disasters; Shipwrecks; Survival LOOKING FOR ORIGINS, by ANN RUSSELL DARR Poem Source First Line: Here on the mountain the thistles Last Line: The loaf was in his head Subject(s): Survival 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 LOST THINGS, by MORTON JAY MARCUS Poem Source First Line: Those little things we search for, find us - the misplaced key we unex Last Line: Combs, and yellowing photographs of us Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Poetry And Poets; Survival M * * *, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, and all will soon forget Last Line: I wait for you in bliss. Subject(s): Death; Survival; Dead, The MAD, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: I'm mad at the flood Last Line: But I don't feel lucky Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival MALAISE, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bad news knows no boundaries Last Line: From [or, for] which to survive such falls Subject(s): Survival; Winter MANIFEST OF A BOAT LEAVING ON THE EVE OF THE 3RD MILLENNIUM, by ALBINO CARRILLO Poem Source First Line: In one satchel you'll be carrying newsprint, comics dark Last Line: Before climbing up the twisted manila rope ladder, home Subject(s): Judgment Day; Millenium; Survival MARCH 14 POST-OP, by ROGER FIELD Poem Source First Line: I can still care Last Line: In relation to %any thing Subject(s): Survival MARRIAGE OF OUR FOTUNES, by SUSAN GRIMM Poem Source First Line: Your father is telling a story on the phone Last Line: You're not dead. What does it mean Subject(s): Survival MEETING AFTER THE SAVIOR GONE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we decided is Last Line: Where you been %where you headed Subject(s): Survival MEMORIES, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: The river is back in its banks again Last Line: In the whole world %we are Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival MOOSE IS AN ACQUIRED TASTE, by DOROTHY BRUMMEL Poem Source First Line: I've never seen %two moose convene Last Line: The question is, %why would they want to? Subject(s): Moose; Survival MOST TERRIBLE PART, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: Down beside the dike Last Line: But this isn't home. %is it?' Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival NAIL, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some dictator or other had gone into exile, and now reports were coming Last Line: Drive the nail which is the axis upon which turns the brutal human world %upon the world Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Survival; Tyranny And Tyrants NEW DIKE, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: The city's cleaning up Last Line: But the new dike will Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival NIGHT THE BUILDINGS BURN: APRIL 19, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: The shelter cots are hard and squeaky Last Line: Again and %again and %again and %again Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival NOME CELEBRITY, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Two years writing, teaching Last Line: How others watched, and whispered. %I let drunks touch me for luck Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Nome, Alaska; Survival; Writing And Writers OCEAN OF FEELINGS, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: Two weeks of waiting Last Line: I'll help you find the library.' Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival OLD STORY, by JUDITH MCCOMBS Poem Source First Line: Now, in our time, he is safe Last Line: Because he did not survive, he survives Subject(s): Death; Memory; Story-telling; Survival ONE HUNDRED LOVE SONNETS: 94, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I die, survive me with such a pure force Last Line: And if you suffer, love, I'll die a second time Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Death; Survival ONE TERRIFIC NEIGHBORHOOD: MAY 20, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: This was a great neighborhood,' dad says Last Line: This was one terrific neighborhood.' Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival PARADE OF INSTINCT, by LEON VASILYADIS Poem Source First Line: Another link in the chain Last Line: Perfecting the continuity of the organism Subject(s): Evolution; Survival PIPE DREAMS: 6, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Ah, but it's good to be alive, wah kee Last Line: And sought your joint—chase up six pills, wah kee! Subject(s): Death; Survival; Dead, The POST-CRASH PAPERWORK, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Yesterday, when asked Last Line: I answered, 'publisher %or muse, your choice' Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets; Survival POST-OP, by BLAIR EWING Poem Source First Line: With a rotating bezel for a Last Line: Through the chambers of your heart Subject(s): Surgery; Survival POSTFEMINISM, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are two kinds of people, soldiers and women Subject(s): Survival; Women's Rights; Feminism POSTFEMINISM, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are two kinds of people, soldiers and women Last Line: There are two kinds of people. Hot with mixed %light, drunk with insult. You and me Subject(s): Survival; Women's Rights PRECIOSA AND THE WIND, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Jangling her parchment moon Last Line: The wind camped out on the roof %tears at the tiles in rage Subject(s): Survival; Wind PRETTY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: When charlene, my homely friend Last Line: Gathered up enough courage %to meet me Subject(s): Accidents; Beauty; Facades; Human Abnormalities; Survival PROGRESS, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the shadowy god who asks you to be content Last Line: Tomorrow's for losers, better grab today Subject(s): Change; Progress; Survival RED RIVER, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: The river wiggled %like a fat brown thread Last Line: That was us. %that was the river Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival REPORTS: 3. CONFEDERATE DEAD, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: Small comfort, to have survived your name Last Line: A sinking into warm glass, unshattered, clear Subject(s): Death; Photography And Photographers; Survival RIVER WILD, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: Melting snow has made the river wild Last Line: But she never answers Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival ROMAN POLANSKI'S 'ANNABEL LEE': KRAKOW, by RICHARD LAMB Poem Source First Line: Childe roman, war stricken Last Line: To the summer of love and ensuing me decade Subject(s): Krakow, Poland; Survival ROMAN POLANSKI'S 'ANNABEL LEE': LA-LA LAND, by RICHARD LAMB Poem Source First Line: Chrome hurtles from an asphalt cloverleaf Last Line: I believe in effort. The rich twist of wills Subject(s): Imagination; Survival ROXANNE, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was flatbush born, was twenty-six Subject(s): Women; Suicide; Survival RUINS, by SARAH GALE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I want to know if you remember this Last Line: In the intimate terror of thier beds Subject(s): Memory; Survival SAMSON PREDICTS FROM GAZA THE PHILADELPHIA FIRE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will be your hair Last Line: If you do not they will Subject(s): African Americans; Fire; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Samson; Survival; Negroes; American Blacks SANCTUARY, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not disengage my world Subject(s): Survival; Chicanos; Mexican Americans SANDBAGGING: APRIL 12, by JANE KURTZ Poem Source First Line: Snow's melting, %river's rising Last Line: One, lift, two, swing, three, catch, four, toss Subject(s): Grand Forks, North Dakota; Rivers; Survival SCHAUDER'S CONJECTURE, by SUSAN HELENE CASE Poem Source First Line: He was a teenager tossing cherry pits Last Line: Without sufficient evidence of proof Subject(s): Mathematics; Poland - German Occupation; Survival SHE LIVED, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After he died Last Line: Deciding to live. And she lived. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Strength; Survival SMELL OF CHILLED DUST IN MY NOSTRILS, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The breeze, whipped up by cars, slaps me Last Line: Rambles inside grand snowfalls, euphorically Subject(s): Cold; Snow; Survival; Winter SOLSTICE: THE CHILDREN'S WARD, by BOB WICKLESS Poem Source First Line: The secret care the world takes Last Line: To trust all your flowers to love Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Survival SOME CALL IT CHILDHOOD: 1. TWICE ALIVE: DETROIT; THE SECRET..., by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Not yet the blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz Last Line: The windows failing-oh the wonder!-of her dying Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Sisters; Survival SOMEHOW MYSELF SURVIVED THE NIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A candidate for morning chance %but dated with the dead Variant Title(s): Poem: 1194; Poem: 120 Subject(s): Survival SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 120, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am not dead with grief because Last Line: Do I owe that I still live Subject(s): Love; Survival SPECTATORS, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: This is the brief physical eye Last Line: "they were alive." Subject(s): Life; Miracles; Survival SPIDER LUCK, by LANCE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: One toe-nudge too many and she exploded, poor Last Line: Mouths, never mind, whose little orphan are you? Subject(s): Luck; Survival ST. KEVIN AND THE WOMAN OF DERRYBAWN, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night her soul is alive Last Line: In the world, she lets them fall. Subject(s): Hunger; Prostitution; Survival; Women - Abused; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Wife Beating STAYING ALIVE, by DAVID WAGONER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staying alive in the woods is a matter of calming down Subject(s): Forests; Survival; Wilderness; Woods STAYING ALIVE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staying alive in the woods is a matter of calming down Last Line: Then, chances are, you should be prepared to burrow %deep for a deep winter Subject(s): Forests; Survival; Wilderness SUCCESFUL SPECIES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horeshoe crabs, which are not crabs at all Last Line: But the one success of species is to endure Subject(s): Survival SUNDAY BRUNCH, by SUSAN L. HELWIG Poem Source First Line: A meal with children borrowed Last Line: One day they will know this craving too Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Survival SURVIVAL, by MARGARET MOORE MEUTTMAN Poem Text First Line: A thousand years from this tonight Last Line: Will last a thousand years. Subject(s): Religion; Survival; Theology SURVIVAL, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Survival, I know how this way Last Line: We shall survive this way Subject(s): Native Americans; Migration; Survival SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Naught but the fittest lives,' I hear Last Line: May weave into its nest of song. Subject(s): Life; Nature; Survival; Time SURVIVAL SKILLS, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the virtue Subject(s): Survival SURVIVING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is true that in this century Last Line: Tell me it is not merely the duty of grief Subject(s): Survival SURVIVING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is true that in this century Last Line: Tell me it is not merely the duty of grief Subject(s): Survival SURVIVOR'S NOTE, by PETER MUNRO Poem Source First Line: The dark gathered in the sanctuary was water Last Line: As if shoved by an artery Subject(s): Letters; Survival SURVIVORS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quite rightly, we remained among the living Last Line: Yet we can pay our tax and see the sun. %what else could we,what else could you, have done? Subject(s): Survival SURVIVORS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never told you this Last Line: Rode towards them and with a rope %galloped them up on to the curt sand Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Survival SWEET, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Linda,/said my mother when the buildings fell Subject(s): Survival SWIFTNESS WITH WHICH THOSE CITIES FELL: 7. THE WINDY SEASON ....., by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: After the parachutists disguised as leaves Last Line: Faces that survive me Subject(s): Survival; War SWIFTNESS WITH WHICH THOSE CITIES FELL: 8. A PRAYER FOR NEWS, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: In the middle of a meal %we checked the dial Last Line: Why did we imagine it was the war? Subject(s): Food And Eating; Survival; War SWIMMING LESSON, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feeling the icy kick, the endless waves Last Line: How to survive in my place Subject(s): Survival TEACHING, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: What should be mostly silence Last Line: In the intricate gut of a hawk Subject(s): Hunting; Survival TEARS AND WAILS: AN ODE TO THE SURVIVOR, by FINTAN L. DOOLEY Poem Source First Line: Tears of my sleepless fellow, I do remember Last Line: Sure, he said, I do remember. She did promise to wait for me Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Militarism; Soldiers; Survival; War Injuries THE BATH: AUGUST 6, 1945, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bathing the summer night Last Line: And to take hold. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Peace; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Social Protest; Survival; War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE BROKEN HOUSEHOLD, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vainly, vainly, memory seeks Last Line: Where none wander and none die. Subject(s): Death – Children; Family Life; Fathers; Survival THE BURNING OF THE PEOPLE'S VARIETY THEATRE, ABERDEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1896, and on the 30th of september Last Line: But I hope they are now in heaven, amongst the heavenly choir. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Heroism; Survival; Tragedy; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE CALVES NOT CHOSEN, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind goes caw, caw, caw, caw Last Line: Awake or asleep, in white, in black Subject(s): Crows; Survival THE CELLAR, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want my father to stop sending me down there Last Line: Yet another cry for mercy. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Antwerp, Belgium; Betrayal; Cellars; Duty; Fathers & Daughters; Food Habits; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Penance; Potatoes; Shame; Survival; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Basements; Shoah; Judaism THE DIFFICULT LAND, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a difficult land. Here things miscarry Subject(s): Farm Life; Endurance; Survival; Agriculture; Farmers THE DIRTY WORD, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dirty word hops into the cage of the mind Subject(s): Jews; Birds; Survival; Judaism THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS; TO DONALD JUSTICE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand years from now / they will be remembered as heroes Last Line: Continues ceasing and ceasing. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Survival; Shoah; Judaism THE FIFTH NIGHT: WHEN SHE MASTURBATES, by SHERYL A. ST. GERMAIN Poem Text First Line: First of all she eats jellybeans Last Line: Until it melts. Alternate Author Name(s): St. Germain, Sheryl Subject(s): Imagination; Longing; Sex; Story-telling; Survival; Waiting; Fancy THE FRIARY AT BLOSSOM, PROLOGUE & INSTRUCTIONS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The pond lilies are like little executions Last Line: — 1967 Subject(s): Animals; Politics & Government; Horses; Lakes; Prisons & Prisoners; Survival; Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542); Pools; Ponds; Convicts 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 LAW OF THE JUNGLE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now this is the law of the jungle - as old and as true as the sky Last Line: But the head and the hoof of the law and the haunch and the hump is -- obey! Subject(s): Jungles; Survival THE MEETING AFTER THE SAVIOR GONE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What we decided is Last Line: Where you headed Subject(s): Survival; Civil Rights Movement THE PALLOR OF SURVIVAL, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm lucky: autumn is flawless today Last Line: Turns, an open gate. Subject(s): Christianity; Converts, Catholic; Evans, Bill (1929-1980); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Loss; Moving & Movers; Nuns; Refugees; Survival; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Violence; Judaism THE SILVER ARROW, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With your fifteen percent chance to survive Last Line: Unbidden, through the forbidden city Subject(s): Railroads; Survival; Marriage THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNFIT, by HEINRICH LEHR Poem Text First Line: A trillion trillion years ago Last Line: And grow into the sons of god. Subject(s): Army - United States; Military; Soldiers; Survival; World War I; First World War THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are fields beyond. The world there obeys Last Line: That we are waiting; that we are waiting Subject(s): Survival; War; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE SWIMMING LESSON, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Feeling the icy kick, the endless waves Subject(s): Survival THE UNDYING ONE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the verses, grave or gay Last Line: Long life to the undying one! Subject(s): Norton, Caroline Elizabeth (1808-1877); Survival THE WOLF, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a grey shadow lurking in the light Last Line: And leaves her bones to bleach upon the plains. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Survival; Wolves; Hunters THE WRECK OF THE BARQUE 'LYNTON' WHILE BOUND FOR ASPINWALL, HAVING ON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad tale of the sea, I will unfold Last Line: A day which the survivors will long remember. Subject(s): Disasters; Hurricanes; Shipwrecks; Survival; Weather THERE ARE HOSTILE NATIONS, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In view of the fading animals Subject(s): Togetherness; Survival THINGS KEPT, by WILLIAM DICKEY Poem Source First Line: From the years Last Line: Blood relics of an ample dispensation, %pure peacock blue, brass glory, furious stone Subject(s): Survival THOUGH WORDS OF ICE BE SPOKEN , by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And yet we cannot slay Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Survival THOUGHTS ON THE RUN: 4, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: The little pilgrim there Last Line: For the time being hang %in the balance Subject(s): Survival THREE TIMES WE PARTED, BREATH AND I, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And I stood up and lived Variant Title(s): Poem: 514; Poem: 59 Subject(s): Survival THREE VARIATIONS ON ELEGIAC THEMES: II: 1832, by DON BOGEN Poem Source First Line: What you make %survives in the changing Last Line: Keeps escaping what %you no longer know Subject(s): Night; Survival TO MY MUSE (WITH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO THE SHADE OF COLONEL LOVELACE), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Deem me not fickle, in that I Last Line: My bread-and-butter more! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Lovelace, Richard (1618-1657); Muses; Survival TO THE LAST HEATH HEN, by EDWARD GRUSE Poem Text First Line: What brought thee to this fate, lone bird forlorn? Last Line: And end a chapter in the life earth rears. Subject(s): Life; Survival TRIAGE, by BEN WILENSKY Poem Source First Line: You are sick and you are sane Last Line: I raise you because I'm sick. %exonerate, and let me work Subject(s): Sickness; Survival TRILLIUMS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Seeing them, sun-flooded at sunset, their three Last Line: Dropped like a bell-less jester's cap Subject(s): Survival TRIUMPH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Despite the north wind's boast Last Line: "of ""life and victory!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Survival; Winter TWO PICTURES OF A LEAF, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I make up this leaf Last Line: Come to resemble so much that does not. Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Leaves; Survival; Trees; Dead, The; Anglers TWO VIEWS, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the laterals and faults of strata Subject(s): Survival; Progress; Past; Birds VANISH, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because I did not die Last Line: Wave on a shell, his salty tongue on an ear Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Sea; Single People; Survival VICTORY STUFF, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What d'ye think, lad, what d'ye think Last Line: Me that's wheeled in a chair. Subject(s): Loss; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; Survival; Victory; War; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples 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 WAR SONG: 1, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hear my voice, birds of war!" Last Line: Bear your angers to the place of fighting Subject(s): Fights;native Americans;native Americans - Wars;ojibwa Indians;survival; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America WE WERE HUNTING FOSSILS, by GARY YOUNG Poem Source First Line: We were hunting fossils, sifting gravel through steel screens, when Last Line: There is no answer what they're saved Subject(s): Fossils; Survival WE WERE THREE, WE WERE TWO, IT WAS ME ALONE, WE WERE NONE, by JOSEP VICENC FOIX Poem Source First Line: We were three, our heads down, in the darkness of vintages Last Line: Sets out, watchfully, towards the brilliant instant Subject(s): Fire; Smoking; Solitude; Survival WHITE HORSE, by JOHN REIBETANZ Poem Source First Line: 1. This horse, not only tamed but humbled, rests Last Line: Unique and common, never-landing arrow Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Survival WINNING THE DUST BOWL, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a reaching up %into the dusty leaves after Last Line: And there are many friends of the huntington who surely do Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Food And Eating; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Survival WOLF'S ADVICE TO HIS NEPHEW, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Beware your pig: he runs the show now Last Line: Try to pass for a collie, is all I can say Subject(s): Nature; Survival; Wolves WORLD OF NO FIRE, by NICHOLAS SAMARAS Poem Source First Line: What is this haze of time obscuring Last Line: A workable past fanning %last embers to see by Subject(s): Fire; Survival WRECK OF THE SCHOONER 'SAMUEL CRAWFORD.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of november Last Line: And to take the last look of their schooner in a blaze. Subject(s): Cold; Disasters; Hunger; Hurricanes; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Snow; Survival; Wind WRECK OF THE STEAMER MOHEGAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good people of high and low degree Last Line: And pray to god to protect him at night before ye sleep. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Sea; Steamboats; Survival; Dead, The; Ocean XCIII, by GIZELLA HERVAY Poem Source First Line: I was put to death but survived it Last Line: But never lived a death with him Subject(s): Exiles; Prisons And Prisoners; Survival |
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