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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DROWNING Matches Found: 158 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "RARE WILLIE DROWNED IN YARROW, OR, THE WATER O GAMRIE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "willy's rare, and willy's fair" Last Line: She found him drown'd in yarrow Subject(s): "drowning;yarrow (water), Scotland; "THE LOWLANDS [OR, LAWLANDS] OF [OR, O'] HOLLAND (3)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my love has built a bonny ship, and set her on the sea" Last Line: "for I never loeved a love but one, and he's drown'd in the sea" Subject(s): Drowning A MOTHER'S LAMENT FOR HER DROWNED SON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "alas, alas thine empty seat, my son!" Last Line: They hold no love for me. I would go hence Subject(s): Children - Lost;death;drowning;lament;mothers & Sons; "dead, The; A NOTE LEFT IN JIMMY LEONARD'S SHACK, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near the dry river's water-mark we found Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drowning; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse A SECRET OF THE SEA, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down at the bottom of the sea Last Line: And the deep sea give up its dead! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Drowning; Shipwrecks; Dead, The A WEATHER PROPHET, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun as clear as a raindrop of fire slipt Last Line: Home. Subject(s): Drowning; Prophecy & Prophets; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weather; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips AGAIN I FIND YOU, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A compulsive flasher, / the limp kelp rises up Last Line: Only the bird. Subject(s): Drowning; Imagination; Memory; Thought; Fancy; Thinking AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN LITTLETON, WHO WAS DROWNED ..., by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And must these waters smile againe? And play Last Line: In light finds darknes, and in darknes light. Subject(s): Drowning AN ELEGY UPON MRS. KIRK, UNFORTUNATELY DROWNED IN THAMES, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all the shipwracks, and the liquid graves Last Line: Return'd a venus back to thee again. Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Shipwrecks ARIEL'S SONG (1) [OR, DIRGE] [OR, A SEA DIRGE]. FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full fathom five thy father lies Last Line: Hark! Now I hear them - ding, dong, bell! Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Fairies; Mourning; Shipwrecks; Elves; Bereavement ASBURY PARK, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Between the jetty and the haze Last Line: We breathe, we drown, we scuttle on Subject(s): Drowning; Gulf Stream; Sea Voyages; Seashore AT THE DISCHARGE OF CANNON RISE THE DROWNED, by HUBERT WITHEFORD Poem Source First Line: The morning that he drowned the white ship came Subject(s): Drowning AUGUST MORNING, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: The sun beats the water to hammered aluminum Last Line: Of ancient urns come to us dancing, hand the invisible line along Subject(s): Drowning; Lifeguards; Saint Kilda (scotland); Survival BALLENA, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you terrified of drowning Last Line: Where it can't breathe Subject(s): Drowning BETTER TO DROWN IN PAINT, by EDWARD BOCCIA Poem Source First Line: Always the first glow followed Last Line: And the way the man dies Subject(s): Drowning; Paintings And Painters BODY OF MY BROTHER OSIRIS IS IN THE MUSTARD SEED, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: Seed from an early egyptian tomb Last Line: He would lift his face Subject(s): Brothers; Drowning; Swimming BREATHING IN, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man under water Subject(s): Drowning CANSO: 3, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I believe at dark solstice in the white moon sailing new Last Line: To sleep in the turning garden for as long as the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Heaven; Prayer; Sailors And Sailing; Seashore CLIFFS OF SCOTLAND, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cliffs of scotland, guard them well Last Line: Freedom's precious sons to hold. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Drowning; Scotland COLOUR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Look at the grass Last Line: Look at the grass Subject(s): Colors; Drowning; Grass; Refugees COMFORT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boatman, boatman! My brain is wild Last Line: Or light up the hills with may. Subject(s): Death – Children; Drowning; God; Consolation CROSSROADS, by FORREST HAMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crossed over the river, and the river went dry Last Line: Decided to myself needn't fight no more Subject(s): Drowning; Homosexuality; Rivers; Seashore DE PROFUNDIS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The face which, duly as the sun Last Line: Smiling -- so I! Thy days go on! Subject(s): Barrett, Edward (d. 1840); Consolation; Death; Drowning; Dead, The DEATH OF A YOUNG SON BY DROWNING, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, who navigated with success Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Death - Babies DEATH OF A YOUNG SON BY DROWNING, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, who navigated with success Last Line: I planted him in this country %like a flag Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning DEATH'S WINDOW, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: To stop the blood of flowers and rotate the order of things Last Line: The altars look at each other, eye to eye. %to lie down on a blue cabbage Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Rivers DEIRDRE IS DEAD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps Last Line: Dust on her breast, dust on her eyes, the grey wind weeps! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Death; Deirdre; Drowning; Grief; Wind; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DOUGLAS GORDON, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Row me o'er the strait, douglas gordon Last Line: Are drowned in the sea. Subject(s): Drowning DROWNED, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only eighteen winters old! Last Line: Like rats in a cage, -- like rats in a cage. Subject(s): Drowning DROWNED, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They still vibrate with the sound Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Drowning; Sea DROWNED, by MARJORIE MUIR WORTHINGTON Poem Text First Line: Dead hair dripping from her head Last Line: Also dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Muir, Marjorie Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dead, The DROWNED AT SEA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gloomy cliffs, so worn and wasted with the washing of waves Last Line: Drowned at sea! Subject(s): Drowning DROWNED IN HARBOUR, by ANTIPATER OF THESSALONICA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All sea is still the sea: why vainly blame Last Line: Know well that seas be seas, as here I lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Thessalonika Subject(s): Drowning DROWNED IN THE TROPICS; THE MOTHER'S QUESTIONS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drowned, say you? Tell me, tell me, how she fares Last Line: After a helpless prey, already struck! Subject(s): Drowning; Mothers DROWNED IN THE TROPICS; THE SEA FAIRIES' ANSWER, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our spells shall Last Line: And floats from light to light, and cannot die. Subject(s): Drowning DROWNING IS NOT SO PITIFUL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the bewildered gymnast Subject(s): Drowning; Fate DROWNING ON THE PAMET RIVER, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because of the pull I ended up swimming in the grasses Subject(s): Drowning; Love; Rivers DROWNING ON THE PAMET RIVER, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because of the pull I ended up swimming in the grasses Last Line: So much that's why I kissed you so desperately Subject(s): Drowning; Love; Rivers ELEGIAC STANZAS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lulled by the sound of pastoral bells Last Line: The rising pang to smother. Subject(s): Drowning; Goddard, Frederick William (d. 1820); Zurich (lake), Switzerland ELEGY, ON GORDON BARBER, LAMENTABLY DROWNED IN HIS 18TH YEAR, by GENE DERWOOD Poem Source First Line: When in the mirror of a permanent tear Last Line: That you, by grace, went gayly to the wave %and all our mourning should be to rejoice Variant Title(s): It's The Other Boys Who Live Afrai Subject(s): Drowning; Fear; Mourning EMMELINE GRANGERFORD'S 'ODE TO STEPHEN DOLWING BOTS, DEC'D', by SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And did young stephen sicken Last Line: In the realms of the good and great. Alternate Author Name(s): Twain, Mark Subject(s): Drowning EPITAPH OF MAISTER WIN DROWNED IN THE SEA, by GEORGE TURBERVILLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoso thou art that passeth by this place Last Line: And that is all that thou or I may gaine, %and so adue, I thank thee for thy paine Alternate Author Name(s): Turbervile, George Subject(s): Drowning EPITAPH ON ONE DROWNED IN THE SNOW, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd Last Line: My last shall give me back to life agen. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Drowning; Epitaphs; Snow EPITAPH ON TWO YOUNG MEN NAMED LEITCH IN CROSSING THE RIVER SOUTHESK, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! Whose steps in sacred reverence tread Last Line: Happy the friends whom death cannot divide! Subject(s): Drowning; Epitaphs EVENTUALLY THEY COME ASHORE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: The living and the dead %whether you wait for them or not Last Line: But it closes its blue eyes, %a shunning, so defeats us Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Grief; Saint Kilda (scotland) EYES OF THE DROWNED WATCH KEELS GOING OVER, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the light has no horizons we lie Last Line: In their remote courses not their own fates but ours Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Drowning FAMILY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you swim in the surf off seal rocks, and your family Subject(s): Drowning FAMILY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you swim in the surf off seal rocks, and your family Last Line: This is what is called the brotherhood of man Subject(s): Drowning FISH FOOD, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As you drank deep as thor, did you think of milk or wine? Last Line: I will not ask any more. You saw or heard no evil Subject(s): Crane, Hart (1899-1932); Drowning; Sea FORGET-ME-NOT, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gallant knight and his betroth'd bride Last Line: And it will solace me in a lonely hour. Subject(s): Courtship; Drowning; Love - Marital; Memory; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love FUGUE FOR A DROWNED GIRL, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It is the time of evening that promises miracles to anyone Last Line: Might be willow sticks. Fish swim into her hair. One by one the lights in her nails go out Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Rivers; Suicide; Dead, The GHAZAL FROM THE DROWNED CITY, by JENNIFER ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: A map of the stars is an icon Last Line: Of waiting, the purple-robed advent of cold Variant Title(s): Another Ghazal From The Drowned Cit Subject(s): Cities; Drowning GHAZAL FROM THE DROWNED CITY: LINES WRITTEN UNDER THE GILT AND ...., by JENNIFER ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: I set myself adrift under the piecemeal, puzzled Last Line: Who can keep strict account of all the tides have taken and given %these days? Subject(s): Cities; Drowning; Water; Weather GIGHA, by WILLIAM SYDNEY GRAHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That firewood pale with salt and burning green Last Line: The sun with long legs wades into the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Graham, W. S. Subject(s): Drowning; Sea; Ocean HERBERT MAPES (DROWNED AUGUST 23, 1891), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, what kingdom on his brow! Last Line: Come back till we have said farewell! Subject(s): Drowning HIS CROWN OF SHAME (ON THE SINKING OF THE 'LUSITANIA'), by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Another gem to deck your crown of shame Last Line: Hell's horrors pale before a prussian brain. Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Grief; Heaven; Lusitania (ship); Shipwrecks; William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise I WONDER WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE DROWNED, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at my knees Last Line: I wonder what it feels like to be drowned? Subject(s): Drowning ICE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one this far south chances ice Last Line: And the lottery began. Subject(s): Drowning; Fear; Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds IMMERSION, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sound is not human Last Line: Light from the wooden grille at the window %arranges its petals on the stone Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Drowning; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine IN GOWER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My matins are remembered well Last Line: Yet singing like a thousand birds. Subject(s): Drowning; Sailing & Sailors; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen IN THE ICE PASTURE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Something cried in the field and I took the binoculars Last Line: Or one beast being born. Subject(s): Drowning; Ice INDIAN WOMAN'S DEATH-SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down a broad river of the western wilds Last Line: "one moment, and that realm is ours. On, on, dark rolling stream!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Drowning; Native Americans; Women; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America IRENE, SUICIDE, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: Claw-footed, white, enameled iron, the water rises Last Line: Drowning herself in a white tub Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Suicide LADY IN KICKING HORSE RESERVOIR, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not my hands but green across you now Last Line: And their tongues are teasing oil from whales Subject(s): Drowning; Montana; Native Americans - Reservations LAKE, by MIYOSHI TATSUJI Poem Source First Line: A man has been drowned in this lake, they think Last Line: Even though the night is already coming Subject(s): Drowning LIFEJACKETS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Tied into their chilly embrace Last Line: Those jackets %that never dried through Subject(s): Drowning; Lakes; Lifeguards; Water LIMBO, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fishermen at ballyshannon Subject(s): Drowning LIMBO, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fishermen at ballyshannon Last Line: Smart and cannot fish there Subject(s): Drowning LINES SUGGESTED BY A LATE OCCURRENCE, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How slow we drive! But yet the hour will come Last Line: May peace be in its ebb -- there's ruin in its flow. Subject(s): Drowning; Homecoming; Stagecoaches LITTLE ANDREW, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Andrew was a little infant, Last Line: Be careful of your little ones. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Drowning LORD WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No eye beheld when william plunged Last Line: Heard william's drowning scream. Subject(s): Boats; Drowning; Ghosts; Murder; Secrets; Supernatural; Vengeance LORELEI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Where the rhine pursues its track Last Line: Plunging - in the rhine she sank Subject(s): Drowning;love - Loss Of;magic;suicide LOWLANDS [OR, LAWLANDS] OF [OR, O'] HOLLAND (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The love that I have chosen Subject(s): Drowning LOWLANDS [OR, LAWLANDS] OF [OR, O'] HOLLAND (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When I was newly married Subject(s): Drowning LYCIDAS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Yet once more, o ye laurels, and once more Last Line: Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Drowning; Freedom; Grief; Hate; King, Edward (1612-1637); Mourning; Religion; Dead, The; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Theology MARGARET'S SPEECH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a frogman. Naked by the water Last Line: Who knows that I bleach my hair. Variant Title(s): Margaret Subject(s): Drowning; Man-woman Relationships; Secrets; Male-female Relations MARY IN THE SILVERY TIDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas of this fair young creature Subject(s): Drowning; Murder MOUNTAIN POOL, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poured by a hundred rills Last Line: In this water, clear and cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Drowning; Lakes; Water; Pools; Ponds MY BOY JACK, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard the news of my boy jack? Last Line: And gave to that wind blowing and that tide! Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Death - Babies NEAR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Two swans drift, arrogant and light Last Line: Near where the bouncer drowned last night Subject(s): Birds; Death; Drowning; Nature; Swans NEARLY DROWNING AT SIX, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue of bill's pet shop fish tank was all Last Line: Sweet jesus. Her feet, I must kiss her feet Subject(s): Drowning; Childhood Memories NOT THE CUCKOLD'S DREAM; FOR SAM PEREIRA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He lifts the white skiff up onto the beach. It is easter Last Line: I will marry, he thought of the fish... Subject(s): Drowning; Easter; Fish & Fishing; Holidays; Man-woman Relationships; The Resurrection; Anglers; Male-female Relations NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody heard him, the dead man Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dead, The NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody heard him, the dead man Last Line: I was much too far out all my life %and not waving but drowning Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Death; Drowning NOTE LEFT IN JIMMY LEONARD'S SHACK, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near the dry river's water-mark we found Last Line: Rolled in the roots and garbage like a fish, %the poor old man Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Drowning OH MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, by PERCY MONTROSE Poem Text First Line: In a cabin, in a canon Last Line: And so I lost my clementine. Subject(s): Drowning ON A YOUNG BRIDE DROWNED IN THE BOSPHORUS, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS Poem Text First Line: Stranger! Shouldst thou to thessaly return Last Line: So to preserve his young bride's memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos Subject(s): Bosphorus, Strait; Drowning ON HIS MISTRESS DROWNED, by THOMAS SPRAT Poem Text First Line: Sweet stream, that dost with equal pace Last Line: These tears, these tears shall mend thy way. Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Grief; Love; Rest; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ON MY AUNT MRS. A. K. DROWNED UNDER LONDON BRIDGE ... 1641, by ANNE KILLIGREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The darling of a father, good and wise Last Line: The nation next, and king I will confound. Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne Subject(s): Aunts; Drowning ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE OLD SPANIEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And they have drowned thee then at last! Poor phillis Last Line: Of their own charity, may envy thee! Subject(s): Aging; Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Drowning; Future Life; Grief; Loss; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF MY DEAR BROTHER, MR. H.S., DROWNED: THE TOMB, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why weeps this marble? Can his frigid form Last Line: Lost her perfection and integrity. Subject(s): Drowning; Sandys, Henry ON THE LOSS OF PROFESSOR FISHER, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breath of air, that stirs the harp's soft string Last Line: Thy home is heaven, and thy friend is god. Subject(s): Drowning ON THE MEMORY OF MR. EDWARD KING, DROWNED IN THE IRISH SEAS, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like not tears in tune, nor will I prize Last Line: We floating islands, living hebrides. Subject(s): Drowning; King, Edward (1612-1637) ORIGINALLY CALLED 7/20/96, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Days without sentiment %as the occasion for a poem Last Line: As the gas pump dings, dings, dings Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Emotions; Grief; Memory; New York City; Poetry And Poets OUTLANDISH KNIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a knight came from the northland Subject(s): Drowning; Knights And Knighthood PAST AND PRESENT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I who have seen a tiny cloud Last Line: Scratched by a little pin or thorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Drowning; Sea Voyages PHENOMENOLOGY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These weeks wide as a wave and white Subject(s): Sea; Sirens (mythology); Drowning; Ocean PRESENCES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Love is present Last Line: A place of bones Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Funerals; Love QUARANTINE, SELS, by BRIAN HENRY Poem Source First Line: My father woke before dawn to work Last Line: I am the only one here who is falling Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Fathers And Sons RECRIMINATION, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So long you walked upon the selfsame way Last Line: To cry to one beloved who will not heed. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Drowning RELATIVELY PLACID, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The small red ball Last Line: Fish him out Subject(s): Drowning; Quarrels; Schools; Teaching And Teachers REVELATION 20:11-15, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was a farmboy who had drowned that wednesday Last Line: We were amazed. Subject(s): Boys; Death; Drowning; Farm Life; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers REVISIONIST POEM: MACHADO, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor and desperate men Last Line: And the fear of drowning Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Fear; Drowning RIVER SOUND REMEMBERED, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That day the huge water drowned all voices until Last Line: That I will hear longer than any mortal song Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Drowning; Floods; Rivers ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 6. RETROSPECT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pearl for the first and the case for the second Last Line: But the kitten, the kitten was saved. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Drowning SAILOR ASHORE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What unsteady ways the solid earth has Last Line: Bitch-sea. Which is what they gave you legs for Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Sailors And Sailing; Shipwrecks; Storms SEQUENCE: 4, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the woods the low red bridge Last Line: Flowing then and still. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Water; Dead, The SIR PATRICK SPENS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "the king sits in dunfermline town [or, dumferling toune]" Last Line: "and there lies gude [or, good, guid] sir patrick spens, / with the scots lords at his feit [or, fee Variant Title(s): Sir Patrick Spence Subject(s): Disasters;drowning;duty;sailing & Sailors;sea;shipwrecks;war; Ocean SKATER IN BLUE, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: The lid broke, and suddenly the child Subject(s): Drowning; Sports SLEEP-SONG, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunken bell is ringing up through the sea of / sleep Last Line: Love, if we sank together beneath the sea of sleep! Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean SONNET: TWO PICTURES, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stood beneath the vine-leaves flushed and fair Last Line: The cruel waves which drowned her lapped the shore. Subject(s): Drowning SUMMER DROWNING, by DENISE LOW Poem Source First Line: Just a moment to step into Last Line: And counting how long %she can stay under Subject(s): Drowning; Water SWIMMER, by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His chin cut water Last Line: Was acheron. Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Hades; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Dead, The; Swimmers THE ART OF DROWNING, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder how it all got started Subject(s): Drowning THE AUDIENCE (AN OLD FABLE), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll let not my children, like pharaoh, be drown'd Last Line: No more of his children's intrusion. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Drowning; Herwegh, Georg (1817-1875); Nature; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE BALLAD OF THE OYSTERMAN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side Last Line: And now they keep an oyster-shop for mermaids down below. Subject(s): Drowning; Sea; Ocean THE BALLAD OF THE SEA-BORN MAN, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have wandered too far from the foam on the shore Last Line: Yet happily, most happily, beyond the hills I reign. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Drowning; Sea; Ocean THE BEAUTIFUL SWIMMER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea Last Line: Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse. Subject(s): Drowning; Gays & Lesbians THE BELLS OF SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not only when the sea is dark and chill and desolate Last Line: From lonely heights within my heart tolling their lonely sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bells; Drowning; Goddesses & Gods; Lament; Mythology; Solitude; Loneliness THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One more unfortunate, / weary of breath Last Line: Her sins to her savior! Subject(s): Adversity; Drowning; Mourning; Suicide; Bereavement THE CARELESSE NURSE MAYD, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sawe a mayd sitte on a bank Last Line: The momente that her care was drownd! Subject(s): Child Care; Drowning; Baby Sitters; Governesses THE CASTAWAY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Obscurest night involved the sky, / the atlantic billows roared Last Line: And whelm'd in deeper gulfs than he. Subject(s): Atlantic Ocean; Drowning; Sea; Ocean THE COLD-WATER MAN; A BALLAD, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was an honest fisherman Last Line: Cold-water man at last! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drowning; Fish & Fishing THE DIVER, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, where is the knight or the squire so bold Last Line: Shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Drowning; Germany; Germans THE DREAM (2), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lake in the head Subject(s): Dreams; Drowning; Nightmares THE DROWNED, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arms finned-out across the water Last Line: As though fascinated by something I couldn't see. Subject(s): Boats; Drowning THE DROWNED BOY, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad was the lot, sad was the tale Last Line: None mourn him now that he is dead. Subject(s): Drowning THE DROWNED LOVER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Faint are her limbs, and her footstep is weary Last Line: In eternity's bowers, a seat for thee there. Subject(s): Drowning THE DROWNED MAN: DEATH BETWEEN TWO RIVERS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone moves through the jungle Last Line: Someone is born with the bright face of your brother Subject(s): Death; Drowning; New York City; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE DROWNED SPANIEL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day-long bluster of the storm was o'er Last Line: Betwixt the rainbow and the golden sea. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Drowning THE DUN COW AND THE HAG, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the river volga near the village of anskijovka Last Line: Ran off her dress like a lowered hem. Subject(s): Cows; Drowning; Old Age; Poisons & Poisoning; Volga River, Russia; Women THE GIDDY GIRL, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss helen was always too giddy to heed Last Line: And giddy miss helen was drown'd. Subject(s): Drowning; Girls THE GREAT YELLOW RIVER INUNDATION IN CHINA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1887, and on the 28th of september Last Line: For fear god punished you likewise for your iniquities. Subject(s): China; Drowning; Floods; Rain; Rivers; Water THE KNIGHT AND THE LADY; DOMESTIC LEGEND OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lady jane was tall and slim Last Line: Have them spitch-cock'd -- or stew'd -- they're too oily when fried! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Drowning; Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LADY IN KICKING HORSE RESERVOIR, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not my hands but green across you now Subject(s): Drowning; Montana; Native Americans - Reservations THE LITTLE ONE THE WATER-SPIRIT LOVED, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: So young he could not go alone on earth Last Line: Before whom I must smile dry-eyed? Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Mothers; Water; Death - Babies THE MAID OF THE MOOR, OR THE WATER-FIENDS, SELECTION, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: Cold blows the blast - the night's obscure Last Line: Lies in the bottom of a well. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Drowning; Grief; Household Employees; Solitude; Wells; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness THE POND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: So innocent, so quiet - yet Last Line: Is that dead woman's upturned face. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Drowning; Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE RAKE'S PROGRESS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Born lorn Last Line: Grief brief. Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dead, The THE TRAGEDY OF THE LAC DE GAUBE IN THE PYRENNES, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The marriage blessing on their brows Last Line: Is fresh and strong for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Drowning THE VOICE AMONG THE DUNES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard the sea-wind sighing Last Line: Breathes drownëd sighs. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dunes; Sea; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean THE VOICE OF WIVES DREAMING, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some nights I wake to the cry of the child Last Line: Dreaming the voice of a different child. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Drowning; Mothers; Tragedy THE WIZARD, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere, nobody knows Last Line: And the bones drift by with a rustling sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Mystery; Seashore; Tragedy; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER 'LONDON'; WHILE ON HER WAY TO AUSTRALIA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1866, and on a very beautiful day Last Line: And they thanked god and captain cavassa, who did their lives save. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Drowning; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Storms; Dead, The THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER 'STELLA', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month of march and in the year of 1899 Last Line: But I hope their souls are now in heaven in safe keep. Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Fog; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Haze THESE TREES ARE NO FOREST OF MOURNERS, by DOUGLAS GORDON JONES Poem Source First Line: They had dragged for hours Last Line: Beyond your grief; they have their own %quiet reality Subject(s): Drowning THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF ME, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was taken some time ago Subject(s): Drowning THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF ME, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was taken some time ago Last Line: You will be able to see me Subject(s): Drowning TO OLINTHUS GREGORY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a spot where pity's foot Last Line: Sees all life held most dear enshrined. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Death - Babies TO THE BOY WHO EXPLODED TO THE BOY WHO DROWNED TO THE BOY WHO FELL..., by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Dead to me now, all dead to me Last Line: And please make a donation in your name? Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Drowning TO W.P.: 1, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm was the sea to which your course you kept Last Line: Dead you will make it easier to die. Subject(s): Drowning; Potter, Warwick (1872-1893) TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AFTER THE DAY'S WORK, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passing by,passing by all exteriors Last Line: Waves. Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Sea; Waves; Dead, The; Ocean UNDER THE BOATHOUSE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my clothes, I ran past the boathouse Last Line: I bobbed with a hook through the palm of my hand. Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dead, The UPON THE THREE SONNES OF THE LORD SHEFFIELD, DROWNED IN HUMBER, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light sonnets hence, and to loose lovers flie Last Line: Their fatall losse, in their sad aniverse. Subject(s): Drowning; Sons VISIONS: 2, by PETRARCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After, at sea a tall ship did appeare Last Line: So great riches, as like cannot be found Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Love - Loss Of; Shipwrecks; Storms WALKING OUT, by ELIZABETH S. ADCOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fishing alone in a frail boat Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Betty Subject(s): Drowning WATER ISLAND, by HOWARD MOSS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finally, from your house there is no view Subject(s): Drowning WATER ISLAND, by HOWARD MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finally, from your house there is no view Last Line: Hunting in the weeds below your landing stairs, %standing in a stillness that now is yours Subject(s): Drowning |
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