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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EARTHQUAKES Matches Found: 57 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FALL-CRICK VIEW OF THE EARTHQUAKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I kin hump my back and take the rain Last Line: It 'ud husk you out o' yer gravel Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ANNE'S BLUE GLASS GETS BROKEN IN THE EARTHQUAKE, by JAYNE VON DER EMBSE Poem Source First Line: Dear, jane, %my blue glass split from the pie safe like a truck Last Line: Against my side, metal on my tongue, voice muted %in water, hands freezing like blue glass Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 1, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish & styrofoam Last Line: Red flowers & round open eyes Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 1, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish & styrofoam Last Line: Red flowers & round open eyes Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 2. THE TALE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He walks among the others: animals & neighbors. In the land of Last Line: Prince of tides has written this for you. The land of islands Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 2. THE TALE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He walks among the others: animals & neighbors. In the land of Last Line: Out of dreams. The prince of tides has written this for you. The land of islands Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 3. FOR MAKOTO ODA, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great quake / 'shook the earth Last Line: The words rewoven to the present day Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: 3. FOR MAKOTO ODA, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great quake %'shook the earth Last Line: The words rewoven to the present day Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: [HOJOKI - CHOMEI AT TOYAMA], by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Months passed & people spoke about the quake no longer Variant Title(s): [hojoki-chomei In Kyoto-1177.-kobe 1995/96] Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan; Japanese AT TSUKIJI MARKET TOKYO: [HOJOKI - CHOMEI AT TOYAMA], by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Months passed & people spoke about the quake no longer Last Line: Uncertain passage through a foreign world Variant Title(s): [hojoki-chomei In Kyoto-1177.-kobe 1995/96 Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Japan BABIES IN THE MEXICO CITY EARTHQUAKE, by D. M. WALLACE Poem Source First Line: Days and days after the crumbling Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Mexico City CATASTROPHE (CHIMBOTE), by JULIO ORTEGA Poem Source First Line: Devastated land, and I searched Last Line: Time erases me at the whim of fate Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Peru; Ruins CHARLESTON, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is this the price of beauty! Fairest, thou Last Line: For thou, destroyer, art man's only hope! Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Disasters; Earthquakes CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 3. NATURAL AIR CONDITIONING, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: They don't like you they come Last Line: Wallace stegner on the floor Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Disasters; Earthquakes; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DE EYARFQUAKE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: De eyarfquake a-shakin' Last Line: Dey 'll nevah tech de groun'. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTH TREMOR IN LUGANO, by JAMES KIRKUP Poem Source First Line: Open the window on the high Last Line: And staring up at the house that wears %telephone wires like a shawl Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTH TREMORS FELT IN MISSOURI, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The quake last night was nothing personal Last Line: Whose bright ordeal leaves cool men woebegone Subject(s): Earthquakes; Missouri EARTHQUAKE, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Source First Line: Many a mountain that the sun has chosen Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by ROBERT ARTHUR DOUGLAS FORD Poem Source First Line: The seasons burn. The wind is dry Last Line: The blast with her too late warning %and testimony of love Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by JAMES KIRKUP Poem Source First Line: An old man's flamingo-coloured kite Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by KOKAN SHIREN Poem Source First Line: Still things moving Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by KUO MO-JO Poem Source First Line: The earth revives Last Line: But how does this knowledge benefit my soul? Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by GETRUDE MALONEY Poem Source First Line: What have I had from you? One look Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Go tell the earth to shake Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon rises as shizu rises from her couch Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon rises as shizu rises from her couch Last Line: A fan opening and closing Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE '89, by WILLIAM TALCOTT Poem Source First Line: It's hard to love a house Last Line: I'm not attached to things %it's the other way around %some things I didn't know I had %until I thre Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE AND AFTERSHOCKS, by BETH HOUSTON Poem Source First Line: To be between the mattresses Last Line: On the edge of my life %for the big one Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE WEATHER, by CAROL CIAVONNE Poem Source First Line: Nicole found the black kitten dead Last Line: Temperature climate we %know we are standing %on thin ice Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKE WEATHER, by FIONA KIDMAN Poem Source First Line: For three days now, the air %has been quiet and still Last Line: That you were about to devour me %I wish this weather %wouldbreak soon Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKES, by SUSAN LANE Poem Source First Line: He said the earth whistled Last Line: Along the fault, fear snaked %a hairline to the heart %stilltrembling, alive Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes EARTHQUAKES HAPPEN, by ALAN C. FOX Poem Source First Line: After the six perfect hours Last Line: And called %our home Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Nature FAULT LINE, by DAVID RIGSBEE Poem Source First Line: Some cows on the path and everywhere scrub Last Line: Upward, by paths divided everywhere Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Nature HAWAII BOUND: 1. TRUTH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: All ashore that's going!' Last Line: Amid an earthquake shock. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Hawaii; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips HUASCARAN, by PAUL C. METCALF Poem Source First Line: The incas are said to have encouraged pizzaro %to found lima as their revenge Last Line: You must remember not to forget Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Explorers; Incas; Peru; Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521) JERUSALEM, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four lamps were burning o'er two mighty grave Last Line: Though crushed and ruined all --which men have called divine. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Jerusalem LIVING IN THE EARTHQUAKE ZONE, by ANTONY CHRISTIE Poem Source First Line: The house is stone and mortar Last Line: Your face blurred and bloody %through the ice window Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Houses; Winter PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE EARTHQUAKE, by NOELLE SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: I know the locomotive rattle of windows, the asking Last Line: Sigh at spartan future, look away with what is left of sight Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes PRAYER OF A CHRISTIAN, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god, I know that thou art good Last Line: Thy love is strong for aye Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Prayer PRESQUE ISLE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How well I remember the day that I spent Last Line: And pray for an earthquake to sink the presque isle. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Islands; Prayer QUAKE IN TURKEY, by DAN STRYK Poem Source First Line: If the old grey-beard whose cramped black fist Last Line: For the sweet unleavened %bread, browning on the stones that covered sons Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes QUAKE THEORY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When two planes of earth scrape along each other Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes QUAKE THEORY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When two planes of earth scrape along each other Last Line: The earth cracks %and innocent people slip gently in like swimmers Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes SACRED EPIGRAM: BUT SOME DOUBTED, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indeed the quaking earth shakes, but Last Line: In this very way, that they cannot speak Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes SONNET, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On high hill's top I saw a stately frame Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Earthquakes THE 'FRISCO EARTHQUAKE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the earth shook and trembled and hungry Last Line: Sad, ah, sad was their fate! Subject(s): Cities; Death; Disasters; Earthquakes; Urban Life; Dead, The THE CAUSE OF THE EARTHQUAKE AT NISHAPUR, by FASIHI KHVAFI Poem Text First Line: Through the shakes and the knocks of the earthquake Last Line: His eyes did pray? Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Religion; Theology THE EARTHQUAKE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: A rolling, grinding rumble: a sharp shudder Last Line: Dust and darkness! Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Fire THE EARTHQUAKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hour ago the lulling twilight Last Line: And still shall weep, a world above its loss. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Disasters; Earth; Earthquakes; Evening; Loss; World; Sunset; Twilight THE EARTHQUAKE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On from the spot, that felt the first dismay Last Line: Who touches into smoke th' eternal hills. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes THE EARTHQUAKE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calmly the night came down Last Line: No trace was left, no vestige shown. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes THE EARTHQUAKE AT CALLAO, by AGNES STRICKLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the vast pacific day's last smile Last Line: O'er his last home, and his loved kindred's graves. Subject(s): Callao, Peru; Disasters; Earthquakes THE NINTH OF AB, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, vain for hand of mine to strike this harp of / golden strings Last Line: A testimony to mankind that god shall keep his word. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Christianity; Disasters; Earthquakes; God; Israel; Jews; Memory; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Tragedy; Youth; Judaism; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery THE TASK: BOOK 2. THE TIME-PIECE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness Last Line: And the land stank, so numerous was the fry. Subject(s): Clergy; Disasters; Earthquakes; Peace; Universities & Colleges; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops TREMOR, by STEPHEN BURT Poem Source First Line: Amid the condensation, glass and gloam Last Line: Across the shaky rim of his earth-toned broom Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes WHEN THE WORLD BU'STS THROUGH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where's a boy a-goin' Last Line: "clean -- plum -- through!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Disasters; Earthquakes; Farm Life; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers WHO BADE THE WAVES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who bade the wavs, like horsemen of bornu, stop Last Line: All boiling with stone Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Seashore; Tides; Waves |
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