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Subject: DIVING & DIVERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DIVER, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Firm and erect on the board she stands
Last Line: Flashes the pink of a laughing face.
Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Water


A FLOWER PASSAGE, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even if you were above the ground this year
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Death; Childhood Memories; Dead, The


ALAN, DIVING, by GEORGE HERBERT NELSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Naked, exultant, and glistening in the sun
Last Line: Live deathless in the heart of this fair boy!
Subject(s): Diving & Divers


CHARLIE HOWARD'S DESCENT, by MARK DOTY    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the bridge and the river
Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Death; Dead, The


CINQUE TERRE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time was the five towns
Subject(s): Diving & Divers


DIVER, by SARA BARD FIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: How like a diver, headlong to the sea
Last Line: And vanished, followed by a laughing band.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs.
Subject(s): Diving & Divers


DIVES AND LAZARUS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As it fell out upon a day / rich diverus made a feast
Last Line: For to sit upon a serpent's knee
Subject(s): Diving & Divers;lazarus


DIVING, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look into thought and say what dost thou see
Last Line: The spirit lay dreadless and hopeless beneath.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer
Subject(s): Thought; Diving & Divers; Thinking


DIVING, by ANDREW MOTION    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moment I tire
Subject(s): Diving & Divers


DIVING INTO THE WRECK, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: First having read the book of myths
Subject(s): Cousteau, Jacques (1910-1997); Disasters; Diving & Divers; Sea; Shipwrecks; Ocean


GRAPPLING, by ROBERT J. CLAWSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sergeant sets the throttle: troll
Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Marines – United States


MONTY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Diving & divers; clowns; memory;
Last Line: And then our heads turning, is monty there?
Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Clowns; Memory


SEVERUS TO TIBERIUS GREATLY ENNUYE, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In places the water had thumbed the thick sunglow to patches
Last Line: To go under as I did, sliding down a sleek-shouldered dream, not otherwise.
Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Sea; Treasures; Ocean


THE DIVER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou hast been where the rocks of coral grow
Last Line: O wrestler with the sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Pain; Suffering; Misery


THE DIVER, by WILLIAM WRIGHTSON EUSTACE ROSS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I would like to dive
Last Line: With the breeze and the comfortable shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, W. W. E.
Subject(s): Diving & Divers


THE PEARL DIVER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kanzo makame, the diver, sturdy and small japanee
Last Line: Plenty more japanee diver, plenty more little brown man!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Pearls; Sea; Ocean