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Subject: DRIFTWOOD
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BURNING DRIFT-WOOD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before my drift-wood fire I sit
Last Line: Its mirage-lifted isles of peace.
Subject(s): Driftwood; Sea; Ocean


DRIFTWOOD, by JOHN C. ADLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dreary upon the beach
Last Line: You sleep upon the sand.
Subject(s): Driftwood


DRIFTWOOD, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beyond the reach of the hungry tides, a storm-wind swept you / high
Last Line: Merely stray bits of drift-wood by life's grim fate betrayed.
Subject(s): Disasters; Driftwood; Grief; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


DRIFTWOOD, by RALPH CHEEVER DUNNING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind's robe rustles on the sand
Subject(s): Driftwood


DRIFTWOOD, by WILLIAM DWYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old collector of driftwood
Subject(s): Driftwood


DRIFTWOOD, by ALICIA HOKANSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bones the cannibal sea has tossed
Subject(s): Driftwood


DRIFTWOOD, by MINA SHAFER    Poem Text                    
First Line: This wood that's warped and silver gray
Last Line: His feathered plume goes up in smoke.
Subject(s): Driftwood


DRIFTWOOD, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From its burial at sea, a gray-white forest
Last Line: Not one not beautiful
Subject(s): Driftwood; Funerals - At Sea; Burials At Sea


DRIFTWOOD, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From its burial at sea, a gray-white forest
Last Line: And weather, under our eyes or fingers %not one not beautiful
Subject(s): Driftwood; Funerals - At Sea


DRIFTWOOD, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The clamor of the sea
Last Line: Sandy feeling %and is explained by it. %like self consisting of peculiar motions in the head
Subject(s): Driftwood


DRIFTWOOD, by KEVIN WALKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boy was driftwood
Last Line: He lives on a hearth, %warming the fisherman
Subject(s): Driftwood


DRIFTWOOD, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In greenwoods once these relics must have known
Last Line: Ingenerate grain
Subject(s): Driftwood


DRIFTWOOD, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In greenwoods once these relics must have known
Subject(s): Driftwood


DRIFTWOOD FIRE, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember how you piled the driftwood high
Last Line: The vast sea-creatures move against our keel.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Driftwood; Fire


DRIFTWOOD FROM A SHIP, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the white of faces from which the sunburn has suddenly been
Subject(s): Driftwood


DRIFTWOOD FROM A SHIP, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the white of faces from which the sunburn has suddenly been
Subject(s): Driftwood


FIRES OF DRIFTWOOD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On what long tides
Last Line: Ashes blown along the shore!
Subject(s): Driftwood; Fire; Sea Voyages; Tides


OUR DRIFTWOOD FIRE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How we delighted in our driftwood fire
Subject(s): Fire; Driftwood


POEM FOR PICTURE: TO AN OIL PAINTING BY WINSLOW HOMER (DRIFTWOOD), by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Water of sea-green
Last Line: It one time knew in its lost youth.
Subject(s): Driftwood; Homer, Winslow (1836-1910); Paintings & Painters


TO PFRIMMER (LINES ON READING 'DRIFTWOOD'), by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Driftwood gathered here and there
Last Line: Down the stream of memory?
Subject(s): Driftwood