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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DESERTS Matches Found: 176 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 7 A.M., A MAN AND A WOMAN, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drive through utah. They're silent Last Line: The sun pulls back toward noon. Subject(s): Absence; Bodies; Colors; Deserts; Food & Eating; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Silence; Travel; Utah; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips A DESERT DAY, by ALMA LACOCK Poem Text First Line: Heat waves above the desert gleam as bright Last Line: With worlds just cast from god's creative hand. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat; Sonnet (as Literary Form) A MAN PROSPECTING, by J. E. LIDDLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man prospecting for the gold Last Line: He weakened, raved, and soon he died. Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Gold Mines & Miners; Insanity; Pain; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery A RHYME OF THE WEST, by FREDERICK WILLIAM OPHEL Poem Text First Line: It was reuben steel that led the way, and his mate was palmer jake Last Line: That the wandering winds might ring at will a requiem for the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Prospect Good; Ophel, F. W. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Friendship; Sacrifices; Dead, The A TALE OF THE BUSH, by W. J." "B. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: It was twenty years last autumn since my comrade and I Last Line: Seared upon my heart for ever its dread memory lives on Alternate Author Name(s): "b., W. J.; Subject(s): Death;deserts;food & Eating;murder;pain;suicide;travel;trees; "dead, The;suffering;misery;journeys;trips; ABLA, by ANTARA IBN SHADDAD Poem Text First Line: The poets have muddied all the little fountains Last Line: Who will guide me to the dwelling of abla? Alternate Author Name(s): Black Knight; Antarah Subject(s): Camels; Deserts; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Valleys APRIL IN THE DESERT, by SUDIE STUART HAGER Poem Text First Line: My heart turns gratefully to you Last Line: With you I see the spring! Subject(s): April; Deserts; Food & Eating ARABIAN DAY'S ENTERTAINMENT, by LEONARD GASPARINI Poem Source First Line: In a private, palm-shaded courtyard in the desert, a tourist, travelling alone Last Line: The other. In the desert, time is measured by the ripening of a date Subject(s): Arabia; Deserts; Food And Eating; Time ARIZONA POEMS: 6. RAIN IN THE DESERT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The huge red-buttressed mesa over yonder Last Line: Whirling, extinguishing the last red wisp of light. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Native Americans; Rain; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America ASIAN DESERT, by DOROTHY WELLESLEY Poem Source First Line: Here the hills are earth's bones Alternate Author Name(s): Wellington, Duchess Of Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating ASLEEP, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am abandoned to a dream Last Line: As she glides at my side Subject(s): Dreams; Deserts; Mirages ASSYRIAN NIGHT-SONG, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is naught, on either hand Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Assyria; Deserts; Food And Eating; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Night; Singing And Singers AT THE WELL, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are, see Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating AT THE WELL, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are, see Last Line: Wheel your mounts about %there is nothing here Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating BE CAREFUL, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: Be careful when you walk Last Line: The person you were %may never return Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating BEARING MYRRH, by ROBERTA ROBERSON CHILDERS Poem Text First Line: The desert welcomes christmas Last Line: In humble reverence. Subject(s): Christmas; Deserts; Food & Eating; Nativity, The BOBCAT WATCHING, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: I thought %I was tracking Last Line: Watching %me Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating BREAKS FREE, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: I just want to be %where the earth breaks free Last Line: And coyotes roam %across the land Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating BUT WHEN I SAW GRAND CANYON, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN Poem Text First Line: The painted desert taught my soul to sing Last Line: And majesty, and silence like a prayer. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Grand Canyon, Arizona BY THE CH'EN GATE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dusk as wild geese winged their aery way Last Line: But through me rang the name of kubla khan. Subject(s): Deserts; Dreams; Dusk; Food & Eating; Tibet; Nightmares CA'LINE'S PRAYER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have got old Last Line: And set me in the rivers of your glory Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Rivers; Water CA'LINE'S PRAYER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have got old Last Line: And set me in the rivers of your glory %ye ma jah Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food And Eating; Rivers; Water CACTUS FLOWER, by LAURA STILL Poem Source First Line: The cactus blooms %not according to season Last Line: Is reason enough %to fade Subject(s): Cactus; Deserts; Flowers; Food And Eating CHALCEDONY, by EMMA POMEROY GREENOUGH Poem Text First Line: Ages long since, upon the desert waste Last Line: Outlasting that poor home wherein it grew. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating COMPENSATION, by MARION L. BERTRAND Poem Text First Line: Tossed about like thistle-down Last Line: With the countless little things he has spilled! Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating COTTONTAIL, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: Hit the trail cottontail. Behind the bush. Over the limb. Last Line: Little %one! Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating CROSSING THE DESERT, by MYLES A. J. RHYNES Poem Text First Line: Silently the desert spreads beneath the Last Line: The spanish suns setting, the evening shadows bow. Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Solitude; Loneliness DAWN IN THE DESERT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the first opal presage of the morn Last Line: But bowed to allah. Subject(s): Dawn; Deserts; Food & Eating; Islam; Sunrise DESERT, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Hereabouts is desert, it's a bad county Last Line: Adding and subtracting itself for ever and ever. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Time DESERT, by LILLIAN M. FISHER Poem Source First Line: The desert is holding a giant breath Last Line: Under a blanket of sky Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; West (u.s.) DESERT, by ELENI FLORATOU-PAIDOUSSI Poem Source First Line: Divine crests Last Line: Through the streets %of december Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating DESERT, by ARTHUR CREW INMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sands, unbroken by mosque or minaret Last Line: Born of a brain whose nucleus is fire. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating DESERT, by EDMOND JABES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hidden language, not that of hands or eyes, a language beyond gesture Last Line: You only understand what you destroy Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating DESERT, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When with the skin you do acknowledge drought, Subject(s): Deserts; Water DESERT BEAUTY, by RUTH BROWN JOHNSTON Poem Text First Line: Gray sage against gray sand Last Line: Saying farewell behind. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating DESERT BRIDE, by MARY MILLER BEARD Poem Text First Line: When sunset colors paint the desert land Last Line: She shuts her eyes and weds him after dusk. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating DESERT COYOTE, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: There is sadness among the stones Last Line: Of hot winds. I am not the desert %but its name is no so far from mine Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Ranch Life DESERT FLUTES, by SARAH DELLA ULMER Poem Text First Line: When the night is wrapped in slumber Last Line: I shall rise and follow them. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating DESERT GIRLS, by KHWAJA GHULAM FARID Poem Source First Line: Out in the desert sands there roam Last Line: My happy times are gone Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating DESERT HYMN TO THE SUN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the arches of the morning sky Last Line: But one who keeps, and shall reclaim his own. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Deserts; Earth; Food & Eating; Sun; World DESERT IN BLOOM, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why can't you remember the nevada Last Line: In remembering? We cannot hurt %one another now Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating DESERT MOTHER, by BERTA HART NANCE Poem Text First Line: Her husband had been gone for weeks Last Line: That gave her strength to go away. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Mothers; Strength; Dead, The DESERT NIGHT, by FRANCES DAVIS ADAMS Poem Text First Line: This is a land of sleepiness, of stark Last Line: Beneath this mask of quietness and sleep. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating DESERT NIGHT, by MARGARET WHEELER ROSS Poem Text First Line: The mountains have put on Last Line: Responsories. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Night; Bedtime DESERT PARABLE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miles above them, miles below Last Line: Than night Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Canyons; Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat DESERT REMEMBERS HER REASONS, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many rivers swerved aside Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating DESERT SCULPTURES, by HENRY J. MORRO Poem Source First Line: We go back to the desert Last Line: Our sweat %carving the earth Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food And Eating; Heat; Sun DESERT SONG, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I came on from santa fe Last Line: The scent of rain, the scent of rain! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Sante Fe, New Mexico DESERT STORM, by LORIS PICKARD WOOLERY Poem Text First Line: Dark clouds boil up to fill the sky Last Line: Of deafening sound -- the aftermath. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Storms DESERT SUNSET, by BLANCHE W. PORTER Poem Text First Line: Upon the silence of the desert land Last Line: For us -- alone -- upon the desert swell. Subject(s): Deserts; Evening; Food & Eating; Sunset; Twilight DESERT TWILIGHT, by JULIA DAINGERFIELD GLASS Poem Text First Line: Bold, glaring daylight wanes Last Line: In the still, sweet twilight. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating DESERT WATERCOLOR, by RUBY BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Green of the palo verde Last Line: With a misted mantle of desert stars. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating DESERT WIFE, by NELLIE COOLEY ALDER Poem Text First Line: I have shed cold tears so sterile they were saltless Last Line: How can such fruitless years in any manner magnify my god? Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DESERT, 2, by EDMOND JABES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You might imagine the desert as a rectangle without angles Last Line: Ah, this else: the power of nothingness, the impotence of the word Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating DESERTS, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: A desert does not have to be Last Line: When faith is gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Deserts; Faith; Food & Eating; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology DISCOVERIES IN ARIZONA, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All my life so far Last Line: That's all right, said the boy. %maybe she's never seen you either Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Arizona; Deserts; Food And Eating DOWSER, by EDWIN MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With my forked branch of lebanese cedar Last Line: Great desert, let your sweetness wake Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating DUSK ON THE DESERT, by SARAH DELLA ULMER Poem Text First Line: The wind sped mute among the grass Last Line: That sweep the plains at eventide. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating EL PONIENTE, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the train the miles are folded by Last Line: It is young air we breathe. This is the west! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States ENTRY TO THE DESERT, by JAMES RORTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I should hasten or cry out Last Line: Or the gray rabbit, pausing lop-eared and alert %scenting the rain Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating FOREVER ONWARD, by ROBERT LEE HAWKENSEN Poem Text First Line: O shifting sand of the desert Last Line: Possessed of love and hope. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating FREEDOM, by WINN SKELLEY Poem Text First Line: Winds of the waste land, sweep over me Last Line: To await the dawning of a star. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating FROM A FELUCCA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A white tomb in the desert Last Line: And on the sky his calm. Subject(s): Arabia; Deserts; Food & Eating; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones FROM THE DESERT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast visited me with thy storms Last Line: In thy dark depths evermore. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating GENESIS, by LEE GERLACH Poem Source First Line: The place to begin is a desert Last Line: And it is surely the right place to begin Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating HIS CAMEL, by ALQAMATH Poem Text First Line: So leave her, and cast care from thy heart with a sturdy Last Line: Mislikes it, all the choice is to journey on. Subject(s): Arabia; Camels; Deserts; Food & Eating; Travel; Journeys; Trips HOWL, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: You may never see me %or even find my track Last Line: The rancher takes my land, %and then he calls me thief! Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating HUMMINGBIRD SONG, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: I hear the hummingbird %as she stops to take a rest Last Line: I'll feed you nectar %from flowers and trees Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating IF I WERE AN ANT, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: If I were a leaf-cutter ant Last Line: Supreme, royal egg-laying machine! Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating IF THE EARTH WERE SMALL, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: If the earth were small, %I'd hold it in my hands Last Line: Looking down from the sky at night Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating IMPARTIAL SKIES, by ANNA WHITE HARDINGER Poem Text First Line: You sing a song of arid lands Last Line: To share the sky's expanse! Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Sea; Ocean IN THE DESERT, by INGEMAR LECKIUS Poem Source First Line: Do not turn emptiness Last Line: That are close to god Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating IN THE MOJAVE, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The starved and passionate desert Last Line: The soft, cool tears of love! Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Mohave Desert; Rain; Sky; Mojave Desert INFERNO,SELS: PART 2-THE MOUNTAIN, by GREGOR STRNISA Poem Source First Line: Its two peaks are never obscured by mists Last Line: The minotaur impales the others on its horns Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food And Eating; Hunger; Mountains INTESTINE OF TAOS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dirt part of the road is five miles Last Line: Cool summer night in the desert; boulevard of stars. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Love - Complaints; New Mexico KUBLEH; A STORY OF THE ASSYRIAN DESERT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The black-eyed children of the desert drove Last Line: "the like of glorious kubleh. God is great!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating LAST STRAW, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: One minute the camel was standing there Subject(s): Camels; Deserts; Food And Eating LEMUEL'S BLESSING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that know the way Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating LEMUEL'S BLESSING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that know the way Last Line: And sustain me for my time in the desert %on what is essential to me Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating LESSONS IN THE DESERT, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The wodaabe aren't allowed to read Last Line: From getting lost in the lines of the page Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Guests; Travel LIVE IT THROUGH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a huge liner stood in the desert, its crew leaning Last Line: Live it through Subject(s): Deserts; Dreams; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares LIZARDS IN LOVE, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: I fell in love %in the springtime Last Line: Catching ants with the tip %of her tongue! Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating LONE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE DESERT, by BLANCHE POWELL MILLER Poem Text First Line: Oh lone little house on the desert Last Line: Tell us your secret so sad. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Houses; Solitude; Loneliness LONGING, by CLAIRE CAVE Poem Text First Line: I long for the peace of the desert Last Line: And the lull of a silent sea. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Longing; Solitude; Loneliness LOVES OF THE LIONS, by CHARLES MADGE Poem Source First Line: Upon the borders of the desert is a town Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating MAGIC ROCKS, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: Who sat where I now sit %and drew upon this rock? Last Line: And sit perfectly still, %will they whisper in my ear? Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating MESA TWILIGHT, by JULIA MAY COURTNEY Poem Text First Line: Day stalks across the mesa floor Last Line: On its world. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating MEXICAN DESERT, by MARGARET LATHROP LAW Poem Text First Line: Where desert sage and agave are rimmed Last Line: The shallow will tremble in solitude. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Mexico MORNING IN MARRAKESH, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in marrakesh we still have to decide Last Line: Black tail points toward the desert Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Morning; Night; Bedtime MORNING IN MARRAKESH, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in marrakesh we still have to decide Last Line: Black tail points toward the desert Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Morning; Night MUSIC ON THE DESERT, by KATHERINE NICHOLS OWSLEY Poem Text First Line: The tumble-weeds whirl happily and spin Last Line: To the sudden drumming of the rain. Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat; Sun NAVAJO LEGEND, by WILLARD JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Is it true, mother, that the mountain sun Last Line: By god-like boys. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Deserts; Food & Eating; Horses; Mothers; Mountains; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America NEVADA, by HELENA GRACE BRADLEY Poem Text First Line: Where the warm brown sands of the desert lie Last Line: Nevada. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Nevada NIGHT IN THE DESERT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With star-dust scintillant the vault is sown Last Line: As of some unimaginable thing! Subject(s): Calm; Deserts; Food & Eating; Night; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Bedtime; Loneliness OASIS, by TOM HANSEN Poem Source First Line: Here we are oasis in the desert Last Line: Palms dream of flying the sky is starry dark %look long listen long linger long depart Subject(s): Calm; Deserts; Food And Eating OLDEST, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: Not tall. Not pretty. %my wood has no worth Last Line: Let the world become a desert, %I will still be here Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating ON HEARING THE CLIMATE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRAISED, by ETHEL MARY DAVIS Poem Text First Line: There are some places where Last Line: And my delight is an unknown tomorrow. Subject(s): California; Deserts; Food & Eating OPERATIONS: DESERT SHIELD, DESERT STORM, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who / are these two women, walking Last Line: America, welcome home. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Grief; Gulf War (1991); History; Sorrow; Sadness; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Historians OUT FROM NOONKANBAH, by JOHN WILSON (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: The coolibahs quiver, / the snakewood moans Last Line: Out from noonkanbah. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilo Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Dead, The OZYMANDIAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I met a traveler from an antique land Last Line: The lone and level sands stretch far away. Variant Title(s): Ozymandias Of Egypt Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deserts; Egypt; Fame; Food & Eating; Pride; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Time; Transience; Vanity; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Impermanence PARAGRAPHS OF THIRST, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Beast of the desert, sex. Expelled from joy. What does it still Last Line: Beast of the desert, butting against the wall Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food And Eating; Sun; Thirst PARALLAX AT DJEBEL-MUTA, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He strolled on desert cliffs; tumultuous sunset Subject(s): Anthropology; Deserts PHOENIX, by CORA HOLBROOK MILCHRIST Poem Text First Line: A city of the desert Last Line: A part of our great southwest. Subject(s): Arizona; Deserts; Food & Eating POETIC EPIGRAMS: 22. A CRY IN THE DESERT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God is no more nor worse Last Line: Hope sees on the universe. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; God; Hope; Optimism POSSESSION, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the shepherd in solitude crosses the deformed desert Last Line: Painted voices -- Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Pollution; Water Supply; Dams; Reservoirs; Water Mains PRIESTESS, by MARIAN DE ZEEUW Poem Source First Line: Somewhere in the desert %is a woman in flowing Last Line: And black always flowing into each other, yin and yang Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Women PRIMER, by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The camel has a funny hump Subject(s): Camels; Deserts; Food And Eating; Sun QUESTING, by SARAH DELLA ULMER Poem Text First Line: The desert shares its loneliness with stars Last Line: In mystery -- slip noiselessly away. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Sonnet (as Literary Form) RAMADAN IN THE DESERT, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON Poem Source First Line: After a sandstorm left them worn and spent Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Ramadan RATTLER, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: I met a cold-blooded killer %on the trail Last Line: Oh, please don't step on me; %I'm over here! Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating READING YOUR POEMS IN YOUR HOUSE WHILE YOU ARE AWAY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning my first roadrunner Last Line: And give them back, like moonlight. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism RED HILLS AND SKY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother is dirt and I am desert Last Line: Tell me who has not been quieted by this. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Deserts; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Food & Eating ROADRUNNER, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: Who is the true desert bird? %owl? Cardinal? Quail? Or sparrow? Last Line: The one with wings so short %he cannot fly far away! Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating SAGUARO, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: Stand %still Last Line: And let your roots spread wide and let your roots spread wide Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating SAND, by JESSICA NELSON NORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kazar, the nomad Last Line: In a whirlwind riding. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Reed I., Mrs. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Wandering & Wanderers SAND, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I am not the subject %I am god's strongbox Last Line: I made no decision to look %either down or up Subject(s): Deserts; Earth; Food And Eating; Rain SAND HAG, by HAZEL FORBIS Poem Text First Line: The desert sleeps. The moon with tender grasp Last Line: They fall and perish on her burning pyre. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating SCORPIONS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How easy, lazy in this light-struck country Last Line: To gaze into the shadows in his shoes. %los Subject(s): Animals; Deserts; Food And Eating; Poisons And Poisoning; Zoos SHIP, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw an ocean liner in the desert, its crew leaning over the railing Last Line: And we could help each other to live it through Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Ships And Shipping SHY MONSTER, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: I'm called a monster. %I don't know why Last Line: With my chin in the dirt %for the rest of the day Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating SILENCE, by IDA MCDANIEL Poem Text First Line: It is still / in the desert Last Line: Brings me solace. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating SLOW AND STEADY, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: Everything I do, %I do slow and steady Last Line: My kind may disappear, %slow and steady Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating SONG OF THE DESERTS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wide, open, free, unbounded, vast Last Line: That bondage never yet hath known. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Singing & Singers; Wind SONNET TO A DESERT NIGHT, by SARAH DELLA ULMER Poem Text First Line: The desert's magic lure has gripped my soul Last Line: I stand uncovered to the desert night. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating SONORA DESERT POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ones who live in the desert Last Line: Of green incredible light Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Deserts; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets SONORA DESERT POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ones who live in the desert Last Line: Smile %say nothing at all Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Deserts; Food And Eating; Poetry And Poets SPRING IN THE ARIZONA DESERT, by GRACE HOFFMAN WHITE Poem Text First Line: A tempest of rain Last Line: On the desert. Subject(s): Arizona; Deserts; Food & Eating; Spring SPRING IN THE DESERT, by ARTHUR TRUMAN MERRILL Poem Text First Line: Like the rusty bronze of a copper kettle Last Line: A vulture specks the blue. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Spring; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States SPRING ON THE DESERT, by FRANCES HUNT PRAY Poem Text First Line: The gleaming blue of heaven deserts the sky Last Line: Its hidden soul in flowering radiance. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Spring THAT DESERT WASTE, by KATHLEEN O'DONNELL Poem Text First Line: My heart is absent from all sorrow Last Line: Will come along with a great fragrant spray. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating THE CALL OF THE DESERT, by EMILY BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Camels kneeling in the desert Last Line: But to desert-dwellers known. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating THE CAPTAIN'S WELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From pain and peril, by land and main Last Line: "that god's best gift is the wayside well!" Subject(s): Deserts; Disasters; Food & Eating; Shipwrecks; Wells THE CARAVAN IN THE DESERT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call it not loneliness, to dwell Last Line: Nor know his steps are on the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Caravans; Deserts; Food & Eating THE DESERT, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark I called to you; out of the enfolding / dark you came Last Line: And only the wind that walks by dusk is over us, and god's grave will. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE DESERT, by CLAIRE CAVE Poem Text First Line: The desert is a wolf Last Line: The desert is a singer... Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating THE DESERT, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the lean coyote told me, baring his slavish soul Last Line: Just a rain-washed track and an empty gun — and the old home trail ahead. Subject(s): Cowboys; Coyotes; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Southwest; Pacific States THE DESERT, by ALICE HANSCHE SORENSON Poem Text First Line: I see no flowers growing as I pass Last Line: Your deep dark eyes. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Solitude; Loneliness THE DESERT DEAD, by IRENE WELCH GRISSOM Poem Text First Line: There is a hill of shifting sand Last Line: The lonely desert dead. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating THE DESERT IS MY MOTHER, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say feed me Variant Title(s): Mi Madre Subject(s): Deserts; Mothers THE DESERT LAND, by MARGARET DELANEY Poem Text First Line: Good god, can it be you made this place Last Line: Alone in the desert at night! Subject(s): Deserts; Desolation; Food & Eating; Hunger; Solitude; South Dakota; Loneliness THE DESERT WIND, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went with happy heart (how happy!) a while since Last Line: Hath seared mine eyes. Subject(s): Courtship; Deserts; Food & Eating; Hearts; Love THE DESERT-BORN, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the wilds of lebanon, amongst its barren hills Last Line: Why any who has had like me, the night mare on his chest. Subject(s): Arabs; Deserts; Food & Eating THE FARING OF FA-HIEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through gobiland's sea of sand Last Line: I, fa-hien.' Subject(s): Buddhism; Deserts; Food & Eating; Monks; Religion; Travel; Buddha; Buddhists; Theology; Journeys; Trips THE FLOWER OF THE DESERT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why art thou thus in thy beauty cast Last Line: "by the lonely, loneliest flower!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Deserts; Flowers; Food & Eating THE FUNERAL, by WALTER J. HEGARTY Poem Text First Line: In the 70's we was workin' far back on a big north run Last Line: And we'll plant them next his mother's in the tomb at dusty town! Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Funerals; Procrastination; Dead, The; Burials THE GREAT VOICE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I who have heard solemnities of sound Last Line: Silence, that speaks with deafening tones of god. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Silence; Voices THE LEOPARD, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In lands where only jackals call Last Line: The jackal's call! Subject(s): Desert Animals; Deserts; Food & Eating; Imagination; Fancy THE PRAYER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The slender leaves of the acacia trees Last Line: And laid his unvoiced grief on allah's heart. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat; Mercy; Prayer THE SEA AND THE DESERT, by EDWARD COLLINS DOWNING Poem Text First Line: The sea / and the desert hate each other Last Line: With barrenness and heat and thirst. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Sea; Ocean THE SLEEPER, by WINN SKELLEY Poem Text First Line: I sat in the shelter of a rock Last Line: And I moved silently lest my presence should awaken it too soon. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating THE SONORAN DESERT, JANUARY, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this unfinished landscape Subject(s): Deserts THE SPECTRE-CARAVAN, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at midnight, in the desert, where we rested on the ground Last Line: See, it dawns!—a joyous welcome neigh our horses to the light! Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Caravans; Deserts; Food & Eating; Mecca; Muslims; Moslems THE SPIRIT OF THE DESERT, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: An indian rides across the plain Last Line: They fade into the desert-dearth. Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat THE SUPPER AFTER THE LAST, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The desert moves out on half the horizon Last Line: I make you over. I breed the shape of your grave in the dirt Subject(s): Resurrection, The; Messiah; Deserts THE WATCHERS, by ERNEST FAVENC Poem Text First Line: All things were old in that grim grey land Last Line: Three dead men lay on the ground. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Pain; Time; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE WATCHERS ON THE ROAD, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hill road, the desert road Last Line: With a white and terrible sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Angels; Deserts; Food & Eating; Roads; Paths; Trails THE WHITE BONE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I saw the city lone Last Line: With the white bone. Subject(s): Cities; Civilization; Deserts; Food & Eating; Hallucinations And Illusions; Urban Life THIS PLACE, by LINDA GREGG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a place in the desert which I keep making Variant Title(s): Ode Sung On The Occasion Decorating The Graves Subject(s): Deserts TO THE COLORADO DESERT, by MADGE MORRIS WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Thou brown, bare-breasted, voiceless mystery Last Line: God must have made thee in his anger and forgot. Subject(s): Colorado (state); Desert Animals; Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat TRAIN IN THE DESERT - 1916, by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Poem Source First Line: And so it comes Last Line: The world slipping darkly %off its wheels Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Railroads TURTLES OF SANTA ROSA, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Haul their leathery, pock-marked backs Last Line: Might then remember me Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Reptiles; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Turtles; Zoos TWILIGHT ON THE DESERT, by ETHEL FRANCES BARNARD Poem Text First Line: It's twilight on the desert, stillness walks Last Line: That chain immortal soul in mortal loam. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating TWO AMERICAN LANDSCAPES, by JAMES RORTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I should hasten or cry out Last Line: See, I bring you gifts of silence, and cool snows. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Landscape; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TWO RAINS, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: There were two rains %in the sonoran desert Last Line: Waiting underground %for the sound of thunder Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating UNTIL THE DESERT KNOWS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On the familiar road %galloped in dreams Variant Title(s): Poem: 1291; Poem: 126 Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating VENETIANS, by EDUARDO URIOS-APARISI Poem Source First Line: The sun persists in leaving you here where Last Line: Not dreaming in gold Subject(s): Deserts; Dreams; Food And Eating; Solitude VERDANT GREEN AND THE CROW, by ROBERT BRUCE Poem Text First Line: Young verdant saddled his horse at the rail Last Line: "a woebegone, gizzard-wrung, ""r-r-r." Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Deserts; Food & Eating; Fools; Idiots WATER SECRET, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: Everyone here keeps a secret. %some sing for her Last Line: A wet secret, a deep secret, %a secret the sun must never know Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating WATERLESS SHORES, by FRANK ASCH Poem Source First Line: There is no stream to draw them Last Line: And waterfalls to fragrance roar Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating WHAT THE STARS SANG IN THE DESERT, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke in the desert rude Last Line: The radiant silence hung. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Stars; Universe WHEN THE DESERT BLOOMS, by HENRY GEORGE WEISS Poem Text First Line: Softly the desert breeze Last Line: By the hot sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Flagg, Francis Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating WHERE THE DEAD MEN LIE, by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out on the wastes of the never never Last Line: Death where the dead men lie. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Dead, The WHO AM I?, by EDVARD KOCBEK Poem Source First Line: I never am %what people think I am Last Line: This arrogant century in the face %and the century will blush Subject(s): Babel, Tower Of; Deserts; Explorers; Food And Eating; Travel WILLING TO BE, by KIRK NESSET Poem Source First Line: Do not regret the passing of the caravan and the camel Last Line: Wind. Silence, starsick, %unfolds Subject(s): Deserts; Dreams; Food And Eating YUCCA, by MARIE TODD Poem Text First Line: Yucca, yucca, burning white Last Line: Holding high your candle's gleam. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Yucca Plants YUMA, by CHARLES HENRY PHELPS Poem Text First Line: Weary, weary, desolate / sand-swept, parched, and cursed of fate Last Line: And the dread mirage are there. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating |
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