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Subject: CHESAPEAKE BAY
Matches Found: 5

CHESAPEAKE, by GERTA KENNEDY    Poem Source                
First Line: Nature most calm is often a crisis
Last Line: It's moving that counts
Subject(s): Chesapeake Bay


FISH STORY, by KELLY BANCROFT    Poem Source                
First Line: When the chesapeake coughed that blue gill up
Last Line: Sun and want her hands, her hands, smooth opals
Subject(s): Chesapeake Bay; Fishing And Fishermen


IN SAINT JUDE'S CHURCH NEAR CHESAPEAKE BAY NAVAL STATION, by LLEWELLYN TERESA MCKERNAN    Poem Source                
First Line: We enter a wilderness of pews hand-hewn
Last Line: To our unknowing hearts, moving among our cells, %removing all the bars
Subject(s): Chesapeake Bay; Churches


NIGHT TRIP ACROSS THE CHESAPEAKE AND AFTER, by SYDNEY LEA    Poem Source                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Mind a clutter: sick with love for another
Last Line: A cold breath swept the bay
Subject(s): Chesapeake Bay


THE SEA HOLD, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea is large
Last Line: The sea must know more than any of us.
Subject(s): Chesapeake Bay; Sea; Ocean