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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BURIALS AT SEA Matches Found: 9 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 wavesthe 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 |
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