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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: THOREAU, HENRY DAVID (1817-1862) Matches Found: 23 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LETTER, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of the day that's rubble around me Subject(s): Junk Mail; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) A TRUE STORY OF GOD, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Henry thoreau is lost in the maine woods Last Line: Snapping from the flames like gunfire. Subject(s): Cruelty; Forests; Maine (state); Moose; Nature; Order; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Woods AUTUMN LANDSCAPE, by HO XUAN HUONG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drop by drop rain slaps the banana leaves Last Line: Whoever sees this landscape is stunned. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Nature; Rivers; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Vietnam; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature HAIBUN BLACK EARTH, SELS., by ANDREW SCHELLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was struck by the gem-like changeable greenish reflection Last Line: A mine called buckskin. %a town called river bend. %a bar called rocky flats Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) HOW THOREAU LIVED, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry thoreau gave up his scandalous life Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) POEM WHOSE LAST SENTENCE IS 17 SYLLABLES AFTER A SUGGESTION, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little we need. Thoreau demoted flour in favor of lowlier Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); O'keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986); Basic Needs SHIPWRECK, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three chinese in yellow coats stood on dunes, waist-high Last Line: Feeding everywhere. Subject(s): Disasters; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850); Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); James, Henry (1843-1916); Refugees; Shipwrecks; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOREAU, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who nearer nature's life would truly come Last Line: "be true as these, if ye would be more wise." Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOREAU, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: Summer: hillsides of ripe huckleberries Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOREAU, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is when I work on the old volvo Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOREAU, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I have no place to go Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Estrangement; Outcasts THOREAU, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Birds trailed him with their ardent wings and music Last Line: Above his hut a startled heron flies. Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOREAU AND THE BODY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lighthouse-keeper told him where he could / find it Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOREAU AND THE BODY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lighthouse-keeper told him where he could %find it Last Line: Extended forgetfulness. Refreshed, reassured, %he walked away to forget Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOREAU AND THE TOADS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the spring thaw, their voices ringing Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Toads THOREAU AND THE TOADS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the spring thaw, their voices ringing Last Line: And straighten and square-knot his rawhide laces Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Toads THOREAU IN CALIFORNIA, by SALLY ALLEN MCNALL Poem Source First Line: It's wrong for life to be so complicated Last Line: No use. I can't read the rock my father and I love %as dearly as a wounded hand in perfect dark Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOREAU TRAVELS UP THE MINNESOTA RIVER, by JAMES GURLEY Poem Source First Line: Swallows and kingfishers fly across the wake Last Line: A yellow square against the darkness Subject(s): Minnesota; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOREAU WADING IN A RIVER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On summer days at the swampy edge of the river Last Line: Going zap1 and zap! Zap! Zap! All the way home Subject(s): Rivers; Summer; Swimming & Swimmers; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOREAU WADING IN A RIVER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On summer days at the swampy edge of the river Last Line: The bundle of dry clothes there on the shore Subject(s): Rivers; Summer; Swimming; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOREAU'S FAREWELL TO CONCORD, by DAVID MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: Now that my shoes are mended, once again Last Line: On which there's no authority but me %to show them where god's huckleberries grow Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOREAU'S FLUTE, by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We, sighing, said, 'our pan is dead' Last Line: "seek not for him, -- he is with thee." Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) WALDEN LAKE, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It is not far beyond the village church Last Line: And with those virtues which are like the stars! Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery Variant Title(s): Walden Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Walden Pond, Massachusetts |
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