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Subject: BURIALS AT SEA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COUNTING THE WINTER DEAD, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Off the oregon coast, thirty-three in storm and sudden
Last Line: Voracious and benign, spare us o lord!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Funerals - At Sea; Oregon; Dead, The; Anglers; Burials At Sea


DEAD JOYS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moan on with thy loud changeless wail
Last Line: Or art thou pitiless as wind or sea?
Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Disasters; Funerals - At Sea; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Seamen; Sails


DRIFTWOOD, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From its burial at sea, a gray-white forest
Last Line: Not one not beautiful
Subject(s): Driftwood; Funerals - At Sea; Burials At Sea


I'D GIVE YOU MY SEAT IF I WERE HERE, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadows these flowers are making on each other
Last Line: And you know and you know.
Subject(s): Dreams; Funerals - At Sea; Graves; Nightmares; Burials At Sea; Tombs; Tombstones


ON MEMORIAL DAY, by EMMA BERGSTROM    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have no graves to decorate on this day
Last Line: Beneath the waves—the graves where I can place no flower.
Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Waves; Burials At Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day


SEA BURIAL, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the sea's crust of prisms looking up
Last Line: And ran on grass as if it could not die
Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; World War Ii; Burials At Sea; Second World War


SEA BURIAL, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We drop our dead in the sea
Last Line: Deeper down in the bottomless sea.
Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; Burials At Sea


SHACKLETON, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two faces of the same coin: poet and explorer. This
Last Line: Destined to go down, a bride of the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Explorers; Funerals - At Sea; Sea Voyages; Shackleton, Sir Ernest (1874-1922); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Burials At Sea


THE OLD SEAPORT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When winds were wailing round me
Last Line: The wild seas made reply.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Culross, Perthsire, Scotland; Death; Funerals - At Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Seashore; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Beach; Coast; Shore