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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER (1451-1506) Matches Found: 141 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1492, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou two-faced year, mother of change and fate Last Line: "grim bulwarked hatred between heart and heart!" Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers A THOUGHT OF COLUMBUS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mystery of mysteries, the crude and harried ceaseless flame Last Line: The modern world to thee and thought of thee!) Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ADRIFT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Abandoned by wind, the squadron drifts, bereft Last Line: Until he becomes the blue eye of god Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers AFTER SUNRISE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Whitecaps rise like blossoms on the waves Last Line: Trembling like the flame inside the sun Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers ALL NIGHT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Slaves to the vagaries of weather, displaced Last Line: Is the axis. Their beaks align with light Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus may have worked the wind Last Line: As cortez on the aztecs made Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus may have worked the wind Last Line: His can be no such easy raid %as cortez on the aztecs made Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers APRIL IN ANDALUSIA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: God lacks for nothing in andalusia -- rivers Last Line: The decoration, something that god will forgive Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers AT ANCHOR, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: And still the hills of hierro, and still the moon Last Line: Painted into angels burns behind their eyes Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers AT GRAN CANARIA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He believes in the burden of his name Last Line: Lifting a skirt to let the light seep through Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BECALMED, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He scans the rich green valley, hills rounded Last Line: Riding the perfect breath that pumps the sea Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BEFORE SUNRISE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Iam lucis orto sidere Last Line: The trinity his ships cut on the waves Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BIRDS AND COLUMBUS, by ANN STANFORD Poem Source First Line: It was the birds that did it Last Line: But here, a crown of islands, %a world for taking Subject(s): Birds; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BRANCH OF FIRE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: This is the anarchy of stars, prophesied Last Line: And make of this a miracle, a sign Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BREAKING DOWN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Monday is all perturbation. The pinta's Last Line: They turn like gulls into the blackening sky Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BREEZES, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He breathes the elegant air, studies the clouds Last Line: But the body of the air is beatriz Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers BRIDGE: 1. AVE MARIA, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be with me, luis de san angel, now Last Line: Te deum laudamus %o thou hand of fire Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Imagination; Vision CHRISTOFORO COLUMBO CLAIMS AMERICA, 1492, by ARMAND GARNET RUFFO Poem Source First Line: Those who made the jounrey believed Last Line: Explorers will have come %and gone. America will have been claimed Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; John Paul Ii, Pope; U.s. - History CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a man, that, from some lofty steep Last Line: Her soul in wo, -- like rachel, weeps. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by ROSEMARY CARR BENET Poem Source First Line: There are lots of queer things that discoverers do Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by ANTONIO GAZZOLETTI Poem Source First Line: Forlorn, alone and old - I die. Alas! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by EDWARD R. HUXLEY Poem Source First Line: Four hundred years have glided by Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There was a great captain with mary in his sails Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With faith unshadowed by the night Last Line: New lands for conquering love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Christopher columbus, where would I be Last Line: I'm glad you were so brave and true / christopher columbus Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers CIPANGO, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The horizon cuts its oar into the sky Last Line: The moon is his mistress. He watches her rise Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CLOUDLAND, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child, I wanted to explore Last Line: Better hell than heaven's shadow! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Children; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Conquistadors; Explorers; Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521); Childhood; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBIA'S BANNER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God helping me,' cried columbus, 'though fair or foul the breeze Last Line: God bless you, youths and maidens, as you guard the stripes and stars! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holidays; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America COLUMBIAN ODE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four hundred years ago a tangled waste Last Line: Now flutters in the breeze the stars and stripes! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America COLUMBUS, by JOAQUIN CASTELLANOS Poem Source First Line: He strove against the winds and waves of fate Last Line: The mystical america of heaven! Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailors And Sailing; Travel COLUMBUS, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Viceroy they made him, admiral and don Last Line: Found justice, truth, and human liberty! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by EDWARD COLLINS DOWNING Poem Text First Line: The vision he foresaw Last Line: And monument. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the white paper! Last Line: Where god might write anew the story of the world. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cordage creaks and rattles in the wind Last Line: Is more than time enough to find a world. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courage; Explorers; Valor; Bravery; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus, wearing a night-gown made from a treasure map Last Line: At sea the waves trudge off in search of a new continent Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind him lay the gray [or, great] azores Last Line: "its grandest lesson: ""on! Sail on!" Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Variant Title(s): The Port Of Ships;a Tribute To Columbus Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Patriotism; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean COLUMBUS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time there was an italian Subject(s): Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957); Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holidays; Vespucci, Amerigo (1451-1512); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time there was an italian Last Line: Because it has a very important moral, which is don't be a discoverer, be a promoter Subject(s): Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1888-1957); Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holidays; Vespucci, Amerigo (1451-1512) COLUMBUS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Steer on, courageous sailor! Through mockery and jeering Last Line: What the one promises, the other still surely attain. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis read of one, a ferryman of old Last Line: Fulfilling all his destiny again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chains, my good lord! In your raised [or, good] brows I read Last Line: I am but an alien and a genovese. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Columbus Day Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: An italian boy that liked to play Last Line: And the wisest know he was more than wise. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS AND THE MAYFLOWER, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O little fleet! That on thy quest divine Last Line: As in the straitness of the ancient ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Mayflower (ship); United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS AT SEVILLE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear son, diego, I am old and deaf Last Line: The date, 1571 Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courts & Courtiers; Death; Explorers; Spain; Dead, The; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS AT THE CONVENT [JULY, 1491], by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dreary and brown the night comes down Last Line: And gratitude are due! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS DYING [MAY 20, 1506], by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Do I hear again the roar Last Line: Into thy hands I give my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS IN CHAINS [AUGUST, 1500], by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are these the honors they reserve for me Last Line: Which, but for me, had still been empty visions. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS THE WORLD-GIVER, by MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who doubts has met defeat ere blows can fall Last Line: Is one clear trumpet call to faith and will. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS [AUGUST 3, 1492], by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Steer, bold mariner, on! Albeit witlings deride thee Last Line: What is promised by one, surely the other performs. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS [CROSSING THE ATLANTIC], by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How in god's [or, heaven's] name did columbus get over Last Line: Is a pure wonder, I must say, to me. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courage; Explorers; Valor; Bravery; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS [JANUARY, 1487], by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Stephen's cloistered hall was proud Last Line: All glorious, -- yet forlorn. Variant Title(s): Columbus (january, 1487) Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, THE DISCOVERER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a caravel of spanish make Last Line: Columbus, calm, his prescience verified. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips COLUMBUS: STANZAS 1-4, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night air brings strange whisperings - vague scents Last Line: Thy deep te deum sounded on the strand. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS; 1492-1892, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Westward columbus steered, while, day by day Last Line: His first te deum at san salvador. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America COMPASS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Tonight the compass turns, all lozenges Last Line: To music -- outside thought, outside time Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers CONCERNING THE RIGHT TO LIFE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I rounded the corner - noiselessly - as if wide unseeable Variant Title(s): The Right To Life Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Shoah; Judaism; Virgin Mary CONCERNING THE RIGHT TO LIFE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I rounded the corner - noiselessly - as if wide unseeable Last Line: Rather the day is hot and the nights temperate %as in may in spain in andalusia Variant Title(s): The Right To Lif Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women - Bible CONTRARY WIND, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: They've had too much of ease, too much os scudding Last Line: Of noblemen. He covets the trophy of stars Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers DONA BEATRIZ, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The hand that greets his is gloved in fawn Last Line: He has left in her pillow will smell of waves Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers DOUBLE RECKONING, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Truth is a wall. He builds in it a window Last Line: They could remember the light of the farthest stars Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers EXTRACTS FROM THE LOST-LOG BOOK OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by GERRY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: We set out from the bar of saltes Last Line: More weed Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers FALSE LANDFALL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The rigging is full of sailors, ladders lost Last Line: Dark and rugged and windswept, holding on Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did the ocean's waste supply / to soothe the mind or please the eye? Last Line: In royal isabella's name. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers FIXING THE RUDDER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Fresh-hewn timber, how these boards arch Last Line: Nothing. And when it falls, it turns the world Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers FLIGHT OF BIRDS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: In nature there is always the exception Last Line: Destiny, the roseate stain of wings Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers FLYING FISH, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Gunshot, a flock of fish spills up from the sea Last Line: Than any ship, more plentiful and higher Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers FRIGATE BIRD, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: How does a bird explain the sorrow of Last Line: As blameless as a sould without belief Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers GHOSTS OF THE NEW WORLD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no ghosts, you say Last Line: Calls to the slumbering host. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Death; Dreams; Earth; Explorers; Ghosts; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers GIRL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: A girl is watching. The men in boots come Last Line: Becomes less salty. All of her tears are returned Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers GOMERA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: In caves, deep in the breathing mountain's side Last Line: In birdsong -- come home! Come home Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers GUANAHANI, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: White laurel. White parrots. The lanterns Last Line: They paint their faces red. They will bathe in dust Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers HIGH SEAS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: And the sea rose and the sky became a wall Last Line: Stands firm, his legs apart. He is the wave Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers IMAGINING THE INDIES, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: All things in the indies overflow Last Line: And all the dust that sifts through stones is gold Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers IMMORTAL MORN, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers IN COLUMBUS' TIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Suppose you lived then, do you think Last Line: "laughed in his face and said, ""pooh, pooh""?" Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ISABEL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Our columbus, wise and brave Last Line: All honor to queen isabel! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sea Voyages; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ISABELA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Dusk balances upon the mountain Last Line: The fruit. %their kisses withered in the sun Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers KILL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He thinks that he despises violence: war Last Line: The sea is a fresh grave covered with bouquets Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers LANDFALL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Flotsam of branches; flotsam of wildest rose Last Line: The sands are rolling; the waves raping the land Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Landfall LIGHT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He cannot trust his senses: light is uncertain Last Line: Round as the back of a turtle and as strong Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers LITTLE COLUMBUS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: Little columbus, when you stayed Last Line: Little columbus Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506) MOLASSES REEF WRECK, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: No telling %how many ships Last Line: Face banishment from these our sovereign %blest shores Subject(s): Artifacts; Colonialism; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Coral; Disasters; Diving And Divers; Explorers; Seaweed; Shipwrecks; Slavery; Spain; West Indies MORNING, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: All things are opening to him, and none Last Line: Rainspout, whirlpool, total eclipse of sun Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers MUTINY, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Exhausted from the constant flex of courage Last Line: And ungrateful, into the promised land Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers ORIGINS, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The flowering breaker detonates its surf] Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); America - Exploration PALM BEACH, by MARY LEIGHTON Poem Text First Line: As, seeking broader lands to gain Last Line: From coral reef to blossom grown. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America PALOS, SPAIN, 1492, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What a stir in the harbor! Last Line: Columbus -- had found a world! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PRAYER OF COLUMBUS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A batter'd, wreck'd old man Last Line: And anthems in new tongues I hear saluting me. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Religion; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology PROEM: TO WATER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: All things in the end return to water Last Line: Will be released. Whatever is done, undone Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 1, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt this and dawn, three hours my soul will smite Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 1, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt this and and dawn, three hours my soul will smite Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 2, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dawn? My dawn? How if it never break? Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 2, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dawn? My dawn? How if it never break? Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 3, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or, haply, how if this contrarious west Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 3, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or, haply, how if this contrarious west Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 4, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now speaks mine other heart with cheerier seeming Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 4, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now speaks mine other heart with cheerier seeming Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 5, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere we gomera cleared, a coward cried Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 5, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere we gomera cleared, a coward cried Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 6, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next drive we o'er the slimy weeded sea Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 6, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next drive we o'er the slimy weeded sea Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 7, by SIDNEY LANIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus stands in the night alone Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers PSALM OF THE WEST: SONNET ON COLUMBUS: 7, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus stands in the night alone Last Line: God, east--mine, west: good friends, %behold my land Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers RAIN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Most of his life is gone, spent far from land Last Line: Emerged: head first and dreaming, like a seed Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers RERIGGING THE NINA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Like the gulls that play the wind at sagres Last Line: Of a world, half hidden, half revealed Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: VITZLIPUTZLI, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On his head he wore the laurel Last Line: "my beloved mexico!" Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Mexico; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SARGASSO SEA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: They sail upon the copse of weed, a shallow Last Line: Even the longest voyage ends too soon Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers SNUFF, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A delicate pinch! Oh how it tingles up Last Line: And jokes that must be laugh'd at shall proceed. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Noses; Pleasure; Snuff (tobacco); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SONG FOR COLUMBUS DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I took my three little trusty boats Last Line: The niña, and santa marie. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SONG OF COLUMBUS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Columbus was a brave man Last Line: Or sail-boats three! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers STAVE CHURCHES, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: I believe in the darkened churches Last Line: All the days are evil, there's no hope anymore, but we %sail on, sail on. %laudate pueri dominum, la Subject(s): America - Exploration; Andalusia, Spain; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailors And Sailing; Ships And Shipping STONE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Idleness has made a boy a killer Last Line: Fish feed on bread and the ashes of the heart Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers SUNRISE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Another sunrise, a month and a week of fading Last Line: Is not a point to be imagined, but found Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers SURFACES AND MASKS; 4, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He gave the fascisti salute Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Fascism & Fascists; Italy; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Italians TERN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: His ship is a dark city. No bird wavers Last Line: Landlessness, the same elusive bird Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers THANKSGIVING, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The men have grown impatient, unhappy Last Line: The deep and teeming stillness they obey Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers THE BOY COLUMBUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "''tis a wonderful story,' I hear you say" Last Line: Will discover his new world surely Subject(s): "columbus, Christopher (1451-1506);explorers;" Exploring;discovery;discoverers THE BOY COLUMBUS, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And he had mused on lands each bird Last Line: In eyes far-seeing to discover. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE BRIDGE: 1. AVE MARIA, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be with me, luis de san angel, now Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Imagination; Vision; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Fancy THE COLUMBUS PARADE, 1893, by STARR HOYT NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Huge warships of all nations side by side Last Line: The fragile oak of christopher's caravel. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; New York City - 19th Century; Parades; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE DISCOVERER, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christopher columbus / runs through the grass Last Line: Whiter than white. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE DISCOVERY; SONNET, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an indian, who had known no change Last Line: Or silks or gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holidays; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE GRAVE OF COLUMBUS, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence, solemn, awful, deep Last Line: "though his cered corpse lies here, with god his spirit dwells!" Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Graves; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Tombs; Tombstones THE NEW WORLD'S QUEEN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swift to the queen, saint angel came Last Line: Dowered isabella — the new world's queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courts & Courtiers; Explorers; Spain; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE RENEWAL OF YOUTH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, could the soul, from all earth's loves set free Last Line: Save the child's heart and trust as of the child. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Art & Artists; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Faith; Grief; Immortality; Music & Musicians; Teneriffe, Canary Islands; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness THE RISING GLORY OF AMERICA, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now shall the adventurous muse attempt a theme Last Line: And future years of bliss alone remain. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Native Americans; Science; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Scientists; America THE THANKSGIVING FOR AMERICA, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas night upon the darro Last Line: The happy nightingales. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE THREE LITTLE SHIPS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: There, are great big ships and they / ride all day Last Line: The pinta, the niña, the santa marie. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Ships & Shipping; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THERE GO THE SHIPS OF HEAVEN, by ALICE A. FLAGG Poem Text First Line: When christopher columbus Last Line: Make difficulties old. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Faith; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Belief; Creed TO CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by CLARENCE L. HAYNIE Poem Text First Line: Forsaking drab genoa's winding streets Last Line: Beside the knowledge that the earth was round! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers TO CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, by JUSTO SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Columbus, if my weak and powerless lay Last Line: Of thy bright apotheosis shall make! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailors And Sailing TO THE CANARIES, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: It is always spring in the canaries Last Line: Seem to become, at dusk, the hilt of a sword Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers TOKEN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Breakfast is a salty biscuit, a piece Last Line: In harmony, breathing the same stale air Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers VISION OF COLUMBUS, SELS., by JOEL BARLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In youthful minds to wake the ardent flame Last Line: Repay thy labours and remove thy pain Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Life Change Events; Nations; Peace VOLCANO, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: O fountain! O black smoke and loud report Last Line: Decks. Like skaters they glide in the pantomine Variant Title(s): In Praise Of Music And Poetr Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas night. The moon o'er the wide wave disclosed Last Line: From golden tajo, to return no more! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers WEEDS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: He would like to be odysseus, tied to Last Line: Of eternity: the perfumed shroud of kings Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers WHALE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: What rich milk has fed the beast to size Last Line: The handiwork of god, pities the whale Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers WHERE TYRANTS PERISH, by JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sail on, columbus! Sail right onward still Last Line: Where tyrants perish and all men are free. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Tyranny & Tyrants; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America WIDOW, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: Heraldic like a banner on the bow Last Line: Prepared again to winnow, prepared to thrive Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers |
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