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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BROOKS Matches Found: 142 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BAREFOOT BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A barefoot boy! I mark him at Last Line: Like unto the clasp of an old pocketbook. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Youth; Streams; Creeks; Childhood A BROOK IN THE CITY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The farmhouse lingers, though averse to square Last Line: This new-built city from both work and sleep. Subject(s): Animals; Brooks; Rivers; Streams; Creeks A BROOK SONG, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm hastening from the distant hills Last Line: "or whither we are going!" Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks A CLEARING BY A STREAM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What impels the mind to soar forth? Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks A COMPARISON [ADDRESSED] TO A YOUNG LADY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet stream that winds through yonder glade Last Line: And heaven reflected in her face. Variant Title(s): The Stream;to A Young Lady;addressed To A Young Lady Subject(s): Brooks; Youth; Streams; Creeks A FAREWELL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea Last Line: For ever and for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Brooks; Inland Waters; Streams; Creeks A MEADOW BROOK, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a quiet nook by a meadow brook Last Line: That meadow brook far away. Subject(s): Brooks; Memory; Streams; Creeks A MEMORY: BANKS OF CALDER AND COUSIN DORA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straying, musing, singing, dreaming Last Line: She has passed away! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Brooks; Cousins; Death; Nature; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The AN OLD-TIMER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the wayward stream Last Line: I -- breathless -- wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Faces; Streams; Creeks ARALUEN (1), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: River, myrtle rimmed and set Last Line: Stays, and paints your face for me. Subject(s): Brooks; Memory; New South Wales, Australia; Streams; Creeks AS RIVERS OF WATER IN A DRY PLACE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Lonely, lonely lay the hill Last Line: Fresh as god's latest word! Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Water; Streams; Creeks ASPEN AND THE STREAM, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beholding element, in whose pure eye Last Line: Even if that blind groping but achieves %a darker head, a few more aspen leaves Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Brooks; Trees BALLAD ON THE PATHS IN VASTMANLAND, by LARS GUSTAFSSON Poem Source First Line: Under the visible script of small roads Last Line: And know all that we wanted to know Subject(s): Brooks; Hunting; Roads; Travel BE HOPEFUL: 3. THE STREAM, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bright stream may shrink in summer's hot fire Last Line: The life-stream again runs fresh 'mong the flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Brooks; Hope; Streams; Creeks; Optimism BEAVER BROOK, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed with broad sunlight lies the hill Last Line: And labor meet delight half-way. Subject(s): Brooks; Waverly, Massachusetts; Streams; Creeks BIRCH STREAM, by ANNA BOYNTON AVERILL Poem Text First Line: At noon, within the dusty town Last Line: Thy memory doth with me abide. Subject(s): Birch Stream, Maine; Brooks; Streams; Creeks BLUE STREAM, by HWANG JINI Poem Source First Line: Blue stream, don't show off your speed Last Line: Slow yourself, rest, then go Variant Title(s): Kisiang Poe Subject(s): Absence; Brooks; Farewell; Valleys BRIGHT WATER FOR ME!, by JAMES P. CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: O! Come, come with me to the stream in the glade Last Line: And our drink the cool water, pure water shall be. Subject(s): Brooks; Water; Streams; Creeks BROOK, by RAFAEL MARIA DE MENDIVE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Laugh of the mountain! Lyre of bird and Last Line: Dwell in limpid fount! Subject(s): Brooks; Flowers; Nature; Roses; Spring BROOK, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seated once by a brook, watching a child Last Line: And what I felt, yet never should have found %a word for, while I gathered sight and sound Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Rivers BY THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lone 'bush' breaks: and the forest dips and clings Last Line: "^2^ australia has, however, her own ""song-thrush"" and ""song-lark." Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Australia; Brooks; Desolation; Forests; Trees; Streams; Creeks; Woods BY THIS CREEK, THIS OTTER CREEK, by DONALD EVERETT AXINN Poem Source First Line: The songs she weaves into chants Last Line: Bury me here by her banks. %oh, bury me here Subject(s): Brooks; Water CHRISTMAS CREEK, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phantom streams were in the distance - mocking lights of lake and pool Last Line: "fitly -- ""christmas creek""." Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks CLEARING BY A STREAM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What impels the mind to soar forth? Last Line: Next to it, and it isn't afraid, it mounts %my ridged finger and walks stiffly across my hand Subject(s): Brooks COMMUNITY, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Burned into parchment, sung in a brook Last Line: For the virginal garland of spring. Subject(s): Brooks; Spring; Streams; Creeks 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 DEAR MEN AND WOMEN, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the quiet before cockcrow when the cricket's Last Line: With a love that is almost joy I remember them: %lost, and all mine, all mine, forever Subject(s): Brooks, Van Wyck (1886-1963); Memory; Old Age DOWN ON WRIGGLE CRICK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mostly, folks is law-abidin' Last Line: Down on wriggle crick! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Crime & Criminals; Hotels; Streams; Creeks; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses DOWN STREAM, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scarred hemlock roots Last Line: Heart and I must row %into our haven! Subject(s): Brooks DOWN THE BROOK, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I leave the meadow for the brook Last Line: The clouded moon is dim and bleary. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks FINDING TOKEN CREEK, by ROBERT ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Before the yahara enters lake mendota, it widens out and flows through Last Line: Surface. While the wind blows uncommonly from the cloudless northeast Subject(s): Brooks; Canoes And Canoeing; Rivers; Travel; United States; Wisconsin FLOOD CONTROL, by LOUIS STODDARD Poem Text First Line: You should have seen the flooded creek today Last Line: Conceding them life nor questioning their reasons. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks FOR ROSALINE'S ALBUM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear the low winds singing Last Line: None must come save you and she. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bells; Brooks; Mothers; Wind; Streams; Creeks FOURTH OF JULY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When july fourth was getting near Last Line: And tell the rest another year. Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Vermont; Streams; Creeks; Independence Day; Liberty FROM AN AMERICAN SERMON, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stretched open to high heaven Last Line: Surveys and governs all. Subject(s): Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893); Sermons GREEN FIELDS AND RUNNING BROOKS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Green fields and running brooks Last Line: Sing green fields and running brooks! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Fields; Streams; Creeks; Pastures; Meadows; Leas GWENDOLYN BROOKS, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She doesn't wear %costume jewelry Last Line: Bro, they been calling that sister by the wrong name Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social HAVE YOU GOT A BROOK IN YOUR LITTLE HEART?, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Some burning noon go dry! Subject(s): Brooks HIKING WITH AARON PAST SUGAR HOLLOW RESERVOIR, by MILES G. WATSON Poem Source First Line: This creek's low enough %in october to hike zigzag upstream Last Line: A hudred circles schooling past, %shaking into rainbows Subject(s): Brooks; Hiking; October HOME AGAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm bin a-visitun 'bout a week Last Line: An' I'm come back home where my beau lives at. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): A Very Youthful Affair Subject(s): Brooks; Cousins; Home; Streams; Creeks HYLA BROOK, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By june our brook's run out of song and speed Last Line: We love the things we love for what they are. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks I KNOW A BROOK, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a brook that winds its way along Last Line: Which he who drinks of never shall thirst more. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks I WAS A BROOK, by SARA COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a brook in straitest channel pent Last Line: To shew their forms and hues in the all revealing sun. Subject(s): Brooks; Water; Streams; Creeks ILLA CREEK, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A strong sea-wind flies up and sings Last Line: And hidden mountain altars. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks IN POETS' DEFENCE, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rebel poets, who've given vicar aid Last Line: Compact from bones and gold, of quirinus and mars. Subject(s): Brooks, Van Wyck (1886-1963); Poetry & Poets; Revolutions IN SWIMMING-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds above, as white as wool Last Line: Dropping, drifting through it all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Clouds; Swimming & Swimmers; Streams; Creeks; Childhood; Swimmers INVERSNAID, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This darksome burn, horseback brown Last Line: Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Subject(s): Brooks; Environment; Nature; Scotland; Wilderness; Streams; Creeks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation IZAAK WALTON TO RIVER AND BROOK, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Which is more sweet, - the slow mysterious stream Last Line: While rays of sun make rainbows in the spray? Subject(s): Brooks; Rivers; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Streams; Creeks LINES TO A BEAUTIFUL AND ROMANTIC BROOK .. TEDSTONE DELAMERE, by ? BOOKER Poem Source First Line: Thou lovely brook, without a name Last Line: What tho' thy source be not divine, %hence lovely stream, that name be thine! Subject(s): Brooks LUGGIE, PAST AND PRESENT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen thy crystal waters Last Line: Night and day is running ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Streams; Creeks MADIMBA: GWENDOLYN BROOKS, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Double-conscious sister in the veil Subject(s): Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000) MADIMBA: GWENDOLYN BROOKS, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Double-conscious sister in the veil Last Line: Double-conscious sister in the veil Subject(s): Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000) MANY WATERS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were live waters racing down Last Line: My heart of music had her fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Brooks; Inland Waters; Streams; Creeks MILLCREEK, by MATTIE-LOU BLACKWOOD Poem Text First Line: Some of its willows are young, but most of them are too old Last Line: Once so free and so lovely, and now this feculent slave. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks MINETTA WATER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deer-hoof dint and moccasin print Last Line: Through the crumbled homes of men. Subject(s): Animals; Brooks; Hunting; New York City - Dutch Period; Streams; Creeks; Hunters MOUNTAIN STREAM, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: The stream that wore this little valley down Last Line: To wear and wear. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks MOUNTAIN STREAM, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I am like this stream Last Line: And yet %the same Subject(s): Brooks; Grief; Love - Loss Of NARRARA CREEK, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the rainy hill-heads, where, in starts and in spasms Last Line: When the sorrowful days of my singing are over. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks NEAR A QUIET STREAM, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When musing near a quiet stream Last Line: Have no wise substance anywhere.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks NILOTIC DRINKING SONG, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You may water your bays, brother-poets Last Line: And sing for the glory of ancient nilus! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Brooks; Drinks & Drinking; Silence; Singing & Singers; Streams; Creeks; Wine ON GETTING A NATURAL, by DUDLEY RANDALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She didn't know she was beautiful Last Line: I know %I'm black %and %beautiful Subject(s): Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000); Hair ON THE PAROO, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the strong stream of a wintering sea Last Line: Of fiery clouds and immemorial rains. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks OUR BOYHOOD HAUNTS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! I'm going back where Last Line: Boneset, mint, and pennyroyal. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Youth; Streams; Creeks; Childhood OUR BROOK IN WINTER, by LOVINA E. OVERLOCK Poem Source First Line: The little brook behind our house Subject(s): Brooks; Winter PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This pan is but an idle god, I guess Last Line: Whether to fan his wings or fly without. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Fantasy; Forests; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Streams; Creeks; Woods PEBBLES, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: Who first heard the high and silver treble Last Line: And found the forest a new tune. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks POET: GWENDOLYN BROOKS AT 70, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As in music Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L. Subject(s): Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000) POETIC EPIGRAMS: 23. A BROOK IN WINTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange as a frozen dream Last Line: Is this stilled winter stream. Subject(s): Brooks; Dreams; Winter; Streams; Creeks; Nightmares QUATORZAINS: 3. RIVULETS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a lovely stream; its wavelets purl Last Line: So I will save it, lest the elf should drown. Subject(s): Brooks; Fairies; Streams; Creeks; Elves RAMBUNCTIOUS BROOK, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You should hear Last Line: And serenade it %all night long Subject(s): Brooks RED CREEK; A REQUIEM, by MARGARET ROBISON Poem Source First Line: Fragrance of tea olive, mint Last Line: The night sky is filled with their light Subject(s): Brooks; Cairo, Georgia; Home; Nostalgia RIBBLEDIN; OR THE CHRISTENING, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No name hast thou! Lone streamlet Last Line: The wildness of thy tresses. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Brooks; Names; Streams; Creeks RIVULET, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Run, little rivulet, run! Subject(s): Brooks ROARING BROOK; A PASSAGE OF SCENERY IN CONNECTICUT, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a mountain stream that with the leap Last Line: To loiter with these wayside comforters. Subject(s): Brooks; Connecticut; Landscape; Streams; Creeks SAND CREEK, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: With its name sand creek speaks truth Last Line: Anything is added to the cup already full, %the cup runs over Subject(s): Brooks; Rivers SAPILLO CREEK, by SUZANNE FREEMAN Poem Source First Line: Stram-scoured & flood-tumbled Last Line: And the journey was the learning of it Subject(s): Brooks; Nature SILVER CREEK FALLS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: With a voice of many thunders Last Line: Silver creek, sing on for me! Subject(s): Brooks; Waterfalls; Streams; Creeks SISTER MARIE; A LEGEND OF TYROL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I through the valley of klausen went Last Line: "ah! Pity me, dear lord,"" it sighed." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Brooks; Death; Legends; Nuns; Prayer; War; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The SONG (8), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stream moaneth as it floweth Last Line: Lulling us from many woes. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brooks; Earth; Rain; Seasons; Streams; Creeks; World SONNET: 6. TO A BROOK NEAR THE VILLAGE OF CORSTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As thus I bend me o'er thy babbling stream Last Line: As thy soft sounds half heard, borne on the inconstant breeze. Subject(s): Aging; Brooks; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Time; Streams; Creeks STREAM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With swift delusional energy Last Line: A delusional / solidity Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks STREAM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With swift delusional energy Last Line: A delusional %solidity Subject(s): Brooks SUN CAME, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun came, miss brooks Last Line: And we goofed the whole thing. %I think. %(though ain't no vision visited my cell) Subject(s): Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000) THE ASPEN AND THE STREAM, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beholding element, in whose pure eye Last Line: A darker head, a few more aspen-leaves Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Brooks; Trees; Streams; Creeks THE AUTHOR'S LIFE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life is like the flowing stream / that glides where summer's beauties teem Last Line: And center in my parent lake. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Brooks; Life; Streams; Creeks THE BANKS OF AVONLEE, by ROBERT GEMMELL Poem Text First Line: The trees are cloth'd in richest green Last Line: And by the banks of avonlee! Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Streams; Creeks THE BROOK, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up, my jewel! Let's away Last Line: Stolen into the gulf for ever! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE BROOK, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Murmuring of the brook in late Last Line: And I meant nothing, and I liked that too. Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Rivers; Streams; Creeks THE BROOK, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But yesterday this brook was bright Last Line: By something worse than discontent! Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE BROOK, by ADIA JAMES LEWIS Poem Text First Line: Oh! I wonder, now I ponder Last Line: To the river I will play. Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE BROOK, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Bright mountain brook that flowest at my feet Last Line: To do each day the work appointed me. Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Solitude; Streams; Creeks; Loneliness THE BROOK, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the mountain to the sea Last Line: And I have many a mile to go. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Brooks; Farewell; Streams; Creeks; Parting THE BROOK AND THE OCEAN, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A brook from a headland was falling Last Line: "drop of fresh water to drink." Subject(s): Brooks; Sea; Streams; Creeks; Ocean THE BROOK THAT RUNS TO FRANCE, by JOHN CLAIR MINOT Poem Text First Line: The brook that threads the meadow Last Line: Three thousand miles, and more! Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE BROOK-SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little brook! Little brook! Last Line: Sing back to him the rest he used to know! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Singing & Singers; Streams; Creeks; Childhood THE BROOK: SUMMER, by LAURA ABELL Poem Text First Line: Clustering ferns lie cool Last Line: Beside the current's murmuring. Subject(s): Brooks; Collective Behavior; Pleasure; Streams; Creeks; Mobs; Crowds THE BROOK; AN IDYL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here by this brook we parted, I to the east Last Line: But she -- you will be welcome -- o, come in!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Brooks; Landscape; Streams; Creeks THE BROOK; AN IDYL: THE BROOK'S SONG, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come from haunts of coot and hern Last Line: But I go on forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Song Of The Brook Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE BROOKLET, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O deep unlovely brooklet, moaning slow Last Line: To sleep unsunned in an untrampled glen. Subject(s): Brooks; Landscape; Streams; Creeks THE BROOKSIDE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered by the brookside Last Line: Was all the sound we heard. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Brooks; Courtship; Streams; Creeks THE BWOAT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where cows did slowly seek the brink Last Line: Aye, all but my own ruffled mind. Subject(s): Boats; Brooks; Love; Streams; Creeks THE CALL OF THE STREAM, by CHARLES HENRY CRANDALL Poem Text First Line: I am sitting to - day at the desk alone Last Line: I'm catching the train for trout. Subject(s): Brooks; Fame; Rest; Solitude; Streams; Creeks; Reputation; Loneliness THE COMPLAINT OF ROSAMOND, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the horror of infernal deeps Last Line: Who made me known, must make me live unseen. Subject(s): Brooks; Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Death; Ghosts; Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Life; Soul; Supernatural; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The THE FROZEN STREAM, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stream that leapt and danced Last Line: Murmuring its song? Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE HILL WATER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a little brook Last Line: Dear, murmuring water! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brooks; Singing & Singers; Soul; Streams; Creeks THE LITTLE BROOK OVER THE HILL, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little brook over the hill that my childhood / knew Last Line: That had swept with death the little brook over the hill. Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Death; Mountains; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE MEADOW BROOK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The meadow brook is always a happy elf Last Line: Because when no one is around, he plays all by himself Subject(s): Brooks THE MUSIC OF THE STREAM, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a spirit voice - an angel's song Last Line: And beauty, bloom, and song exist no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Streams; Creeks THE OTHER SIDE, by MARTHA BANNING THOMAS Poem Text First Line: I want to push behind silence Last Line: But cannot remember! Alternate Author Name(s): Eden, Patience Subject(s): Brooks; Rivers; Streams; Creeks THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 40, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Past thousands of layers of mountains and clouds Last Line: And bird talk suddenly agrees with my thoughts Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Birds; Brooks; Chinese Literature; Quiet Life; Streams; Creeks THE RESOLVE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To come to the river Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE SEA SAID 'COME' TO THE BROOK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wisdom is stale to me Subject(s): Brooks; Sea; Wisdom THE SONG OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Straight from the cool green arms Last Line: Of the dogwood's ivory gleam. Subject(s): Brooks; Susquehanna (river); Travel; Water; Streams; Creeks; Journeys; Trips THE SPRING AND THE BROOK; SONNET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It may be that the poet is as a spring Last Line: The solitary parent spring behind! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Brooks; Poetry & Poets; Streams; Creeks THE STREAM AND THE TARN, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stream came plunging and leaping Last Line: And the heart of pearl in its breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Brooks; Sea; Streams; Creeks; Ocean THE STREAM'S SECRET, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What thing unto mine ear Last Line: This hidden tide of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE STREAMLET, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A thread-like stream, that had its source Last Line: Died in the lake's engulfing gloom! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE STREAMS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye have been holy, o founts and floods! Last Line: Making the heart a shrine! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE SUBTERRANEAN STREAM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darkly thou glidest onward Last Line: In one bright flood of day! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE SUN CAME, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun came, miss brooks Subject(s): Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000) THE TREE THAT LIVES BESIDE THE BROOK, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: The shadows of its leafy face Subject(s): Trees; Brooks THE TROUT-BROOK, by CARL WARING Poem Text First Line: You see it first near the dusty road Last Line: To the charms of the meadow brook. Subject(s): Brooks; Trout; Streams; Creeks THE UNFORGOTTEN: 2, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rested by the broken brook Last Line: As I recall the blue? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Brooks; Love - Loss Of; Streams; Creeks THE VALLEY BROOK, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT Poem Text First Line: Fresh from the fountains of the wood Last Line: Press onward in the glorious strife. Subject(s): Brooks; Inland Waters; Streams; Creeks THE WASHER OF THE FORD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a lonely stream afar in a lone dim land Last Line: Along that silent strand. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brooks; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Redemption; Silence; Sin; Water; Streams; Creeks THE WATER CROWVOOT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O small-feac'd flow'r that now dost bloom Last Line: Fair small-feäc'd flow'r o' the frome. Subject(s): Bridges; Brooks; Flowers; Water; Streams; Creeks THE WHITE CASCADE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What happy mortal sees that mountain now Last Line: That on the mountain sings, and shines so far. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Brooks; Rivers; Streams; Creeks THE WHOLE DUTY OF BERKSHIRE BROOKS, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To build the trout a crystal stair Last Line: And whisper sorrow into sleep! Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Brooks; Streams; Creeks THE YOUTH AND THE MILL-STREAM, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty brooklet, gaily glancing Last Line: Tell that maiden all my passion! Subject(s): Brooks; Love; Youth; Streams; Creeks TIME OF CLEARER TWITTERINGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time of crisp and tawny leaves Last Line: In the thicket while he sings! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Harvest; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Streams; Creeks TO A MOUNTAIN BROOK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty and health do companion thee, friend Last Line: Born of an impulse divine. Subject(s): Beauty; Brooks; Mountains; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TO A RIVER IN THE SOUTH, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call me no more, o gentle stream Last Line: Old love shall dwell with old delight. Subject(s): Brooks; England; Rivers; Streams; Creeks; English TO MY BROOK, by JEAN FRANCOIS DUCIS Poem Text First Line: Brook little known whose waters run Last Line: How time's swift stream doth ever flow. Subject(s): Brooks; Calm; Streams; Creeks; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. LITTLE BROOK WITHOUT A NAME, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little brook without a name, that hast been my companion for so many years Last Line: And bear away on thy bosom, and scatter them likewise. Subject(s): Brooks; Love; Nature; Spring; Streams; Creeks WAKEFULNESS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drifting, idly drifting, where thought's varied streams Last Line: Sleep, sweet sleep! Subject(s): Brooks; Sleep; Streams; Creeks WANG STREAM COLLECTION': WHITE STONE RAPIDS, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: White stone rapids are shallow and clear Last Line: And gossamer washed in bright moonlight Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Brooks; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905) WATER STRIDERS ON PAPER MILL CREEK, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Do they delight %in being lighter than water Last Line: Between shadow and sun Subject(s): Brooks; Water WATER TABLE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shy the attraction / of simple rain to the east wind Last Line: To write his name Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Mines & Miners; Mountains; Nature; Seasons; September; Water; Fall; Streams; Creeks; Hills; Downs (great Britain) WEST RUNNING BROOK, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Fred, where is north? Last Line: To-day will be the day of what we both said Subject(s): Marriage; Brooks; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The WITH THOUGHTS OF ROUSSEAU, by HIRSCH LAZAAR SILVERMAN Poem Text First Line: I hence would kneel upon the grassy brink Last Line: That cools the thirst of all the wilderness. Subject(s): Brooks; Thought; Streams; Creeks; Thinking WORTH FOREST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, prudence, you have done enough to-day Last Line: "sir, the child is dead!" Subject(s): Brooks; Nature; Pilgrim Fathers; Rivers; Sussex, England; Worth Forest, England; Streams; Creeks ZILLEBEKE BROOK, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This conduit stream that's tangled here and there Last Line: On my way up to sanctuary wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Brooks; World War I; Streams; Creeks; First World War |
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