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Subject: VOLCANOES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GEOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lurid volcanoes were guarding the pole
Last Line: Where they wait them the dragon and ichthyosaur!
Subject(s): Death; Dinosaurs; Fossils; Geology; Nature; Volcanoes; Dead, The


AETNA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: For when the rushing winds begin to blow
Last Line: And th' unctuous soil recruits them in the way
Subject(s): Etna (volcano); Volcanoes


ANTIQUE COIN, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still etna bears the red wine and the gold
Last Line: The immortal beauty of sicilian girls.
Subject(s): Etna (volcano); Numismatics; Sicily; Volcanoes; Aetna (volcano); Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical


CATANIA, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Catania! On thy famed and classic shore
Last Line: And from the mountain's womb comes forth a sullen roar.
Subject(s): Catania, Sicily; Volcanoes


CINQUAIN: LAVA, by KENNETH CHING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Geysers
Last Line: Of pele!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Volcanoes


HALEAKALA, MAUI, by PAUL NELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Downslope into the crater
Subject(s): Maui Island, Hawaii; Volcanoes


HAWAII AND OAHU, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hawaii, with thy sea-washed shore
Last Line: Until we meet again.
Subject(s): Farewell; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Mountains; Volcanoes; Parting; Oceania; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


HIS FIRST LINES (PRESERVED BY HIS MOTHER), by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In awful ruins aetna thunders nigh
Last Line: While aetna thundering from the bottom boils.
Subject(s): Etna (volcano); Volcanoes; Aetna (volcano)


HONGO STORE 29 MILES VOLCANO, HILO, HAWAII, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My parents felt those rumblings
Subject(s): Volcanoes


HOTEL VESUVIUS, by RAOUL SCHROTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swaths of smoke from burnt oil spew out the vent
Last Line: Off somewhere singing like a siren
Subject(s): Volcanoes


I HAVE NEVER SEEN VOLCANOES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To the hills return!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 165; Poem: 17
Subject(s): Volcanoes


INSIDE THE GHOST VOLCANO, by WILL ALEXANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With the body of a morbid hanging doll
Last Line: As pleas for hushed exhibits
Subject(s): Volcanoes


KAPIOLANI, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where the great green combers break in thunder on the barrier reefs
Last Line: "from this day, thou, lord jehovah, be our one and only god!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Hawaii; Religion; Volcanoes; Theology


KAPIOLANI, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When from the terrors of nature a people have fashion'd and worship a spirit
Last Line: Demon from hawa-I-ee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Hawaii; Kapiolani (hawaiian Chietainess); Volcanoes


LAVA, by DANIELA CRASNARU    Poem Source                    
First Line: All that I loved, I've killed
Last Line: Drowned deeper and deeper by the lava %of my words
Subject(s): Death; Life; Volcanoes


LOO-WIT, by WENDY ROSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The way they do / this old woman
Last Line: Loo-wit sings and sings and sings.
Subject(s): Mount Saint Helens, Washington; Volcanoes


MOUNT SHASTA, by JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behold the dread mt. Shasta, where it stands
Last Line: The snow immaculate upon that mountain's brow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Yellow Bird
Subject(s): Volcanoes


MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only on the rarest occasions, when the blue air
Last Line: That way, as is said of certain hill creatures
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Fanatics And Fanaticism; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Volcanoes


NEGOTIATIONS WITH A VOLCANO, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We will call you agua like the rivers and cool jugs
Subject(s): Volcanoes


ODDA, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The smoke rises from the earth
Last Line: At night as fiery pillars %over israel
Subject(s): Fire; Israel; Smoke; Volcanoes


ON THE LIPS OF THE LAST OF THE INCAS, by JOSE EUSEBIA CARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today arriving on pichincha's slope
Last Line: Unknown and free
Subject(s): Graves; Heaven; Incas; Volcanoes


POMPEII: A.D. 79, by EMILY FRAGOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day before, as there is always that
Last Line: Sliding under our feet at a little past noon
Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy; Volcanoes


SLOPES OF ETNA, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace is written on the doorstep
Last Line: Grey-black rock. %call it peace?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Variant Title(s): Peac
Subject(s): Peace; Volcanoes


THE DIFFERENT DAY, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder if the hawk knew
Last Line: And darkness golden!
Subject(s): Volcanoes


THE RETICENT VOLCANO KEEPS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is immortality
Subject(s): Volcanoes; Immortality


THE VOLCANO HOUSE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Near mauna loa's mountain top
Last Line: That wonder land doth seem.
Subject(s): Hawaii; Mountains; Volcanoes; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TO MOUNT AETNA, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Aetna - I've been up vesuvius / vesuvius has shrunk, it seems
Last Line: A little more . . . Or less . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Etna (volcano); Volcanoes; Aetna (volcano)


TO PELE (GODDESS OF KILAUEA VOLCANO), by ANNE MOTT-SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Break this spell of brittle hardness
Last Line: Oh, pele -- live again!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Volcanoes


VOLCANO IS DARK, by MALCOLM LOWRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The volcano is dark, and suddenly thunder
Last Line: Or the groans of love --
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Volcanoes


VOLCANOES, by BELLA AKHMADULINA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Extinct volcanoes are silent
Last Line: At your dead feet? Did he, didn't he, %bellow: 'forgive me!'?
Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy; Volcanoes


VOLCANOES, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each volcano lifts its profile
Last Line: Like tumbled baskets, spilling flowers
Subject(s): Fire; Stones; Travel; Volcanoes


VOLCANOES BE IN SICILY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Vesuvius at home
Subject(s): Volcanoes


VOLCANOS, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every volcano rears its outlined height
Last Line: Baskets o' erturned, that pour abroad their flowers
Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Hearts; Passion; Volcanoes