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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DISCOVERERS Matches Found: 132 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 POET'S PROPHECY, by LUIGI PULCI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Know that this theory is false; his bark Last Line: To glad the nations with expected light. Subject(s): Explorers; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America 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 A TRIBUTE TO HENRY M. STANLEY; THE GREAT AFRICAN EXPLORER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of dundee Last Line: And play up, see the conquering hero comes! Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Explorers; Heroism; Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841-1904); Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Heroes; Heroines; Rowlands, John; Journeys; Trips ADMIRAL, HAIL!, by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD Poem Text First Line: Admiral, admiral Last Line: Freedom and peace is the end of your quest! Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails 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 BALBOA, by NORA PERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With restless step of discontent Last Line: Divinely guided, reached the goal. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Balboa, Vasco Nunez De (1475-1519); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers BERMUDAS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Where the remote bermudas ride Last Line: With falling oars they kept the time. Variant Title(s): The Emigrants In Bermudas;in Exile;song Of The Emigrants In Bermudas Subject(s): Bermuda; Exiles; Explorers; Fantasy; God; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology; Seamen; Sails; Ocean CHILDREN OF CORONADO, by MILDRED CRABTREE SPEER Poem Text First Line: The seven cities of cibola rise Last Line: They, too, shall die of thirst along the plains! Subject(s): Cibola (mythical City); Coronado, Francisco Vasquez De (1510-54); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers 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 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 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 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 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 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 CUATRO-CENTENNIAL, by ROLF SOMMER NIELSEN Poem Text First Line: Coronado, this land was old Last Line: And dry and rot and go to dust. Subject(s): Coronado, Francisco Vasquez De (1510-54); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers DANIEL BOONE'S LAST LOOK WESTWARD, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm only four-score years, my sons, and a few Last Line: Before they hew that northwest into the world. Subject(s): Boone, Daniel (1734-1820); Explorers; Northwest, Pacific; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers DISCOVERY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I traveled the road of the restless Last Line: And the god of love were one. Subject(s): Explorers; Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Journeys; Trips FIRST ACROSS THE SANDS, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY Poem Text First Line: Juan bautista de anza Last Line: And stands in california. Subject(s): Anza, Juan Bautista De (1736-1788); California; Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers 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 FLIGHTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: English herons brought for sport to a new land Last Line: For worlds of outer space? Subject(s): Explorers; Herons; Seashore; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Beach; Coast; Shore FOR THE NEW YEAR 1791, by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from the bosom of the mine Last Line: Unbought by scenes of woe, and undefil'd with blood. Subject(s): Explorers; French Revolution (1789); Holidays; New Year; Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Seashore; Trade; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Beach; Coast; Shore 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 GOALS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the horrors of the north Last Line: And seeks the common good of man. Subject(s): Explorers; North Pole; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers HERITAGE, by MAY BRYANT FULLAM Poem Text First Line: Our birdman loved his ship Last Line: To take his place with friends and kin e'en as he did on earth. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Courage; Explorers; Heritage; Heredity; Valor; Bravery; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers 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 KANE, by FITZ-JAMES O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aloft upon an old basaltic crag Last Line: By the good christian knight, elisha kane! Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Arctic; Explorers; Kane, Elisha Kent (1820-1857); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers KNOWLEDGE, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They were islanders, our fathers were Last Line: Who are brave and true. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Canada; Explorers; Canadians; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers LEGENDARY PROGRESS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, in the darkness of his dream Last Line: The beast is raging in its time Subject(s): Change; Explorers; Progress; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers MARCO POLO, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was heroic, fugitive, in love with the machinery Last Line: Devoured by the oriental machinery of the silkworm Subject(s): Explorers; Insects; Money; Polo, Marco (1254-1324); Sea; Skeletons; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Bugs; Ocean MON-DA-MIN; OR, THE ROMANCE OF MAIZE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ere the shores of green america Last Line: From whose abundance all the world may feed. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Explorers; Legends; Dead, The; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ODE TO CAPTAIN PARRY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parry, my man! Has thy brave leg Last Line: And tempt the fates no more! Subject(s): Explorers; North Pole; Parry, William Edward (1790-1855); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ON EXPLORATION, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hawk drops to the treetop Subject(s): Explorers; Poetry & Poets; Universe; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ON THE DISCOVERIES OF CAPTAIN LEWIS [JANUARY 14, 1807], by JOEL BARLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the nile cloak his head in the clouds and defy Last Line: Who taught him his path to the sea. Subject(s): Clark, William (1770-1838); Explorers; Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809); West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers ORIENT TO OCCIDENT, 1906, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You thought me sunk in lethargy, too deeply drugged with sleep Last Line: For you the ship's machinery, for me the guiding helm! Subject(s): Asia; Explorers; Religion; Sailing & Sailors; Sleep; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Theology 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 PERSPECTIVE, by LOUISE MOSS MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: So many things to learn and see Last Line: The answer can be only -- god! Subject(s): Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers POLAR EXPLORER, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: All the huskies are eaten. There is no space Subject(s): Explorers; Arctic; 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 PYTHEAS, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gaul whose keel in far, dim ages ploughed wan widths of polar sea Last Line: Where he fell asleep for ever, twenty centuries ago. Subject(s): Explorers; Pytheas (300 B.c.); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers QUIVIRA, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Francisco coronado rode forth with all his train Last Line: The city of quivira whose streets are paved with gold. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Coronado, Francisco Vasquez De (1510-54); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers REDISCOVERY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more I go over your earthly body Last Line: Waiting a marriage of heaven and hell in the bed of this world Subject(s): Beauty; Explorers; Sex; Women; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers REPUBLIC AND MOTHERLAND, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the vast harbor with the morning sun Last Line: Thy mayflower crossed the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Explorers; Nations; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean 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 SA-CA-GA-WE-A; THE INDIAN GIRL WHO GUIDED LEWIS AND CLARK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sho-sho-ne sa-ca-ga-we-a - captive and wife was she Last Line: "sho-sho-ne sa-ca-ga-we-a, who led the way to the west!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Clark, William (1770-1838); Explorers; History; Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809); Native Americans; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SEA MARVELS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning more mysterious seems the sea Last Line: In the inglorious grapple after gold! Subject(s): Explorers; Sea; Sea Voyages; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean 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 SIERRA KID, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I passed slimgullion, morgan mine, Subject(s): Explorers; Sierra Nevada Mountains; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, whither sail you, sir john franklin? Last Line: We passed the northern sea! Variant Title(s): A Ballad Of Sir John Franklin Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Franklin, Sir John (1786-1847); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SIR JOHN FRANKLIN; ON THE CENTOTAPH IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not here! The white north has thy bones Last Line: Toward no earthly pole. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Franklin, Sir John (1786-1847); Westminster Abbey; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers 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 SPEARFISH CANYON, by CORIE DAVIS HENTON Poem Text First Line: My camp fire smoke wreathes in and out the trees Last Line: And rest, by nature soothed, carefree, content. Subject(s): Camping; Canyons; Explorers; Camps; Summer Camps; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers 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 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 DISCOVERER OF THE NORTH CAPE; FROM KING ALFRED'S OROSIUS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Othere, the old sea captain, / who dwelt in helgoland Last Line: "behold this walrus-tooth!" Subject(s): Alfred, King Of Saxons (871-901); Explorers; Norway; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean 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 EXCURSION: OR: O COLUMBUS!, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning is the morning when mrs. Murphy's treasure chest opens Last Line: And the seas fill up with the sharks of auld lang syne Subject(s): Explorers; Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Journeys; Trips THE EXPLORATION OF OLIVER, by DOROTHY E. REID Poem Text First Line: Something was in the air -- he didn't know Last Line: Hailing the hero home, hailing the viking. Subject(s): Explorers; Vikings; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE EXPLORER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little billy wilson ran Last Line: Said little billy wilson. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Explorers; Childhood; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE EXPLORER, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: He who holds fast to one enduring dream Last Line: All bears the mighty signature of god. Subject(s): Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE FATE OF EXPLORERS (A FRAGMENT), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Set your face toward the darkness - tell of deserts weird and wide Last Line: "here a friend, a brother, laid them; here the wild men came to weep." Subject(s): Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE FROZEN GRAIL (TO PEARY AND HIS MEN), by ELSA BARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why sing the legends of the holy grail Last Line: And lift his warm lips to the frozen grail. Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Peary, Robert Edwin (1856-1920); 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 GREAT EXPLORER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sailed o'er the weltery watery Last Line: Of the kinkable cannibal isles. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Explorers; Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE HEAD ON THE TABLE, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The enormous head of a bison Last Line: Of swamp water and peat. Subject(s): Explorers; Museums; Stones; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Art Gallerys; Granite; Rocks THE MOON IS UP, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is up: the stars are bright Last Line: Beyond the spanish main. Subject(s): Explorers; Sea Voyages; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers 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 PAUSE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have walked past my widest range Subject(s): Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE POLAR QUEST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unconquerably, men venture on the quest Last Line: To find the mystic floodway of the north. Subject(s): Explorers; North Pole; Sea; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean 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 SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 12, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: So bearing far along that pleasant shore Last Line: Or what new quest might to their lord be shown. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Explorers; Sea Voyages; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE SPRIG OF MOSS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lived in munich a poor, weakly youth Last Line: And be your only comforter in all your lonely hours. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Explorers; Moss; Stones; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Granite; Rocks 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 THE VISIT OF THE FLEET, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: In a long majestic line against the sky Last Line: Till the dove of peace shall reign on every shore. Subject(s): Balboa, Vasco Nunez De (1475-1519); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips THE VOYAGE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Could I but be / perpetuallie Last Line: Another voyage make to hell. Subject(s): Explorers; God; Hell; Self; Temptation; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers THE VOYAGE OF VERRAZANO (1524), by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Verrazano, verrazano, child of arno's golden vale Last Line: O'er the chartless seas of silence from a fellow voyager, hail! Variant Title(s): Verrazano In New York Harbour Subject(s): Explorers; New York Harbor; Ships & Shipping; Verranzano, Giovanni Da (1485-1528); 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 THOSE WHO COME AFTER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will never say of us: / what wonderful myths they had Last Line: Endlessly nibbled and gnawed Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Explorers; Greece; Mythology; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Greeks THROUGH RIVERS OF BLOOD, by SARA ADLER ROSALSKY Poem Text First Line: Earthlings will yet do noble things Last Line: They will achieve fraternity! Subject(s): Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers TO A NEST OF YOUNG THRUSHES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little birds, you're ready now to fly Last Line: From day to day. Subject(s): Birds; Explorers; Nature; Solitude; Youth; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Loneliness 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 JOSIAH ROYCE, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Seaward he set his course, nor hugg'd the / shore Last Line: And find the pole-star of your loyalty! Subject(s): Explorers; Royce, Josiah (1855-1916); Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips TO THE CONQUERORS OF THE AIR, by WILNA WIGGINTON Poem Text First Line: I am the great adventurer-the geni of all romance Last Line: I climb or fall ten thousand feet into the arms of god. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Explorers; Storms; Thunder; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers TO THE MISSISSIPPI, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They came from fierce, burnt spain to seek for gold Last Line: Of hot, long listlessness and moody course. Subject(s): Death; Explorers; Gold; Mississippi; Dead, The; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers TRAVELOGUE, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Never have I journeyed Last Line: Realm, the sky. Subject(s): Explorers; Travel; Vision; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Journeys; Trips ULYSSES, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It little profits that, an idle king Last Line: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Ulysses Impatient Of Rest Subject(s): Aging; Explorers; Labor & Laborers; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Perseverance; Religion; Sea; Ulysses; Wandering & Wanderers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Work; Workers; Theology; Ocean; Odysseus; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes VERSES SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER SELKIRK, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am monarch of all I survey Last Line: And reconciles man to his lot. Variant Title(s): Verses By Alexander Selkirk;alexander Selkirk;the Solitude Of Alexander Selkirk Subject(s): Explorers; Memory; Selkirk, Alexander (1676-1721); Solitude; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Loneliness 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 WHEN AS A LAD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, as a lad, at break of day Last Line: For any save the soul's swift feet! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Boys; Childhood Memories; Explorers; Sea Voyages; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers 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 YOUTH, by LOUISE SUTHERLAND Poem Text First Line: O, let me sail the seven seas Last Line: If you've not gone romancing, too! 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