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| Searching... Subject: FISH & FISHING Matches Found: 266 A CALCULUS OF READINESS, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, come from the city of dolls. Subject(s): Dolls; Fish & Fishing; Anglers A FAREWELL, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And if I did, what then? Last Line: "as they do now at me." Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love - Loss Of; Anglers A FISH STORY, by HENRY AUGUSTIN BEERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A whale of great porosity Last Line: The upward path's the steeper. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers A FISHER'S-WIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The soonest mended, nothing said Last Line: And he and I so far apart! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A LETTER, ON FISHING GROUNDS [OF, THE GULF OF MAINE] BY WALTER H. RICH, by CHARLES OLSON Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If the marine features Subject(s): Fish & Fishing A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on his watershelf Last Line: He is reading a chapter on deserts. Subject(s): Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Knowledge; Nightmares A SPRING IDYLL, by HENRY WOTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day dame nature seem'd in love Last Line: To welcome the new-livery'd year. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing A TALE OF THE SEA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold Last Line: Will think of the hardships of poor mariners while at sea. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Hunger; Sea; Survival; Ocean A WALK BY THE RIVER, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us walk where reeds are growing Last Line: Are to read in nature's book. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Fish & Fishing AD PISCATOREM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For these are sacred fishes all Last Line: And in the waters empty all thy bait. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fish & Fishing; Rome, Italy AFTER THE PAPAGO, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've done it now Last Line: On the homeward road Subject(s): Desire; Fish & Fishing; Houses; Trout; Anglers AN ANGLER'S SOLILOQUY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Bright fish, weak victim of my wiles Last Line: Our hearts of guile beware. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares AN ANGLER'S WISH, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When tulips bloom in union square Last Line: And just a day on nature's heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers AN EGYPTIAN PULLED GLASS BOTTLE IN THE SHAPE OF A FISH, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here we have thirst Last Line: Whose scales turn aside the sun's sword by their polish. Subject(s): Bottles; Fish & Fishing; Anglers AN OLD FISHING NET, by JULIANUS Poem Text First Line: Shorn of his strength by time, these worn-out nets Last Line: Reproach him not -- for 'tis his all in all. Alternate Author Name(s): Julianus Aegyptius Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers ANGLING, by ADA E. HALL Poem Text First Line: It is pleasant in the forest Last Line: A chub lies panting on the shore. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers ANGLING, by CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father loved the patient angler's art Last Line: "with pointing finger, and triumphant ""there!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bowles, Caroline Anne Subject(s): Fish & Fishing AT THE FISHHOUSES, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Although it is a cold evening Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers AT THE SAND CREEK BRIDGE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The path of most insistence Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Guns; Mountains; Nature; Rivers; Trout; Anglers; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BALLAD OF A WISTFUL LADY, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT Poem Text First Line: She was a wistful lady Last Line: Heigh-ho! Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Women BALLAD OF THE LONG-LEGGED BAIT, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The bows glided down, and the coast Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sin; Anglers BE CONTENTED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the fish that gets away, my boy" Last Line: And fame will find you yet Subject(s): Contentment;fish & Fishing BETTY BRILL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'm very fond of fish Last Line: And muzzled me - don't grin Subject(s): Fish & Fishing;love BIRDS AND FISHES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Every october millions of little fish come along the shore Subject(s): Birds; Fish & Fishing; Anglers BLACK JAVA PEPPER, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Despair, anger, grief Last Line: Rain forest islands -- song. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing BY AN AUSTRAL RIVER: AUSTRALIA'S PROPHECY; AN ANGLER'S REVERIE, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The line whirs inward on the reel Last Line: "has ""something worth!"" to show." Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; New Zealand; Rivers; Sea; Ocean CALLER OYSTERS, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of a'the waters that can hobble / a fishin yole or salmon coble Last Line: Will thole it better. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Oysters; Anglers CASTING REELS, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You find them at flea markets Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers COUNTING THE WINTER DEAD, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Off the oregon coast, thirty-three in storm and sudden Last Line: Voracious and benign, spare us o lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Funerals - At Sea; Oregon; Dead, The; Anglers; Burials At Sea CRADLE SONG OF THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swung in the hollows of the deep Last Line: Sleep, sleep. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers DARKEY FISHERMAN'S RAINY DAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: W'en I git up in de mo'nin' an' de clouds is big an' black Last Line: Dough I knows dat lizy 's waitin' wid de skillet w'en I 's done. Variant Title(s): Fishing Subject(s): African Americans; Fish & Fishing; Negroes; American Blacks; Anglers DAWN, NOON AND DEWFALL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn, noon and dewfall! Bluebird and robin Last Line: And fiddle on the kitchen wall a-jes' a-eechin' fer me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Dawn; Fish & Fishing; Noon; Robins; Sunrise DON'T YOU SEE?, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was hotter than words can tell Last Line: Till the whale was obliged to whale them all. Subject(s): Crabs; Fish & Fishing; Jellyfish; Marine Animals; Sea; Anglers; Ocean DOWN AROUND THE RIVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noon-time and june-time, down around the river Last Line: Noon-time and june-time down around the river! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; June; Rivers DOWN AT THE DOCKS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down at the docks-when the smoke clouds lie Last Line: With a secret tide to a secret sea. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore DREAM CARP, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People traveled from miles away to see Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Fish & Fishing; Anglers EDNA BAY, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One day the men pulled a house off float logs Last Line: See sheets of thin ice floating out in the bay. Subject(s): Alaska; Fish & Fishing ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I think by now the river must be thick Subject(s): Fathers; Fish & Fishing; Anglers EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 9. LOVE A TICKLISH GAME, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Virgins are like the silver finny race Last Line: Lay well your hooks -- and cast your nets with art. Subject(s): Courtship; Fish & Fishing; Love; Anglers EPITAPH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The angler rose, he took his rod, / he kneeled and made his prayers to god Last Line: The angler tripped, the eels were fed. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; God FESTOONS OF FISHES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Incognitos of masquerading moons Last Line: Festoons of fishes weave insanity. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ignorance; Sea; Anglers; Dullness; Stupdity; Ocean FINISTERE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hurrah! I'm off to finistere, to finistere, to finistere Last Line: When I come back to montparnasse and dream of finistere Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Paris, France FISH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There are sharks that swim in ocean Last Line: And red when they are cooked. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Fish & Fishing; Food & Eating; Sea; Sharks; Water; Cookery; Anglers; Ocean FISH, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fish have fins Subject(s): Fish & Fishing FISH, by SYDNEY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much do I love, at civic treat Last Line: Thee and thy dainty friends to leave. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Sidney Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Food & Eating FISH OF THE GODS, by RALPH LINTON Poem Text First Line: Fish of the gods! The gods who called for blood Last Line: Perhaps the sportsmen throw us in again. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; God; Hunting; Irony; Anglers; Hunters FISH-LEAP FALL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From further in the hills there came Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers FISHERMAN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a fisherman in summer deep Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers FISHERMAN IN SONGKHLA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His mirror shines back with approval, god's Last Line: Palms open in the gesture of forgiveness. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Thailand FISHERMAN JOB, by JAMES ROANN REED Poem Text First Line: Well, young'un, you're mighty smooth spoken, an' it all may Last Line: An' if such things all happen by luck, why, I hope it'll always hold on. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing FISHERMEN (THE JERSEY COAST), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They stand as still as shapes in bronze Last Line: The crush and roar of modern life—and christ in galilee! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; New Jersey; Seashore; Anglers; Beach; Coast; Shore FISHERMEN - NOT OF GALILEE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have toiled all the night, the long weary night Last Line: I shall wake in thy likeness, satisfied. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Jesus Christ; Anglers FISHERMEN AT FAIRHOPE, by FRANCES R. DURHAM Poem Text First Line: Paint me a poem in dull gold Last Line: And peace there. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers FISHERS OF MEN, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long ago he said Last Line: From calvary. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Hearts; Jesus Christ; Sea; Singing & Singers; War; Ocean FISHERS OF MEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boats are out, and the storm is high Last Line: Till the nets, o'ercharged, shall break. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Galilee, Palestine; Religion; Sea; Stars; Theology; Ocean FISHERS OF MEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men can live where fishes are Last Line: Men, our brothers, are below! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing FISHIN', by LOUISE AYRES GARNETT Poem Text First Line: De 'postles dey went seekin' fer to ketch a mess Last Line: En yo' done kotch me. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers FISHING, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The days that I went fishing Last Line: Of white stones and a running stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Nature; Anglers FISHING, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the sheep on the brae are lying still Last Line: And the cross of good saint bride! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing FISHING FOR ALBACORE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Past oil derricks, gray docks. Intracite layout of oil pipes Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Tuna Fish; Anglers FISHING NOOKS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men will grow weary,' said the lord Last Line: The good lord fashioned fishing nooks. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers FISHING SONG, by H. A. WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: Pierre lefarge de doulazec Last Line: And underneath, -- the grave! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Yale University FISHING SONG; TO J.A. FROUDE AND TOM HUGHES, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mr. Froude, how wise and good Last Line: Hurrah! For salmon, grilse, and -- dennis, dennis, dennis! Variant Title(s): Killarney Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Froude, James Anthony (1818-1894); Hughes, Thomas (1822-1896); Wales; Anglers; Welshmen; Welshwomen FLYING FISH, by MARY MCNEIL SCOTT FENOLLOSA Poem Text First Line: Out where the sky and the sky-blue sea Last Line: Of birds that were drowned at sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Mccall, Sidney; Scott, Mary Mcneil Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers FLYING FISH: AN ODE, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low lies bermuda on our starboard bow Last Line: The ship drives on; bermuda looms ahead. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean FOR IZAAK WALTON, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What trout shall coax the rod of yore Last Line: O hush thee, o hush thee! Heart innocent and dear. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Anglers GAR, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night the river house swayed Last Line: Like a memory at the light. Subject(s): Country Life; Fish & Fishing; Southern States; Anglers; South (u.s.) GOLD FISH, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: Through this blue crystal, mirroring still motion Last Line: In motion that is sculpture-stone of sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Fish & Fishing GOLDFISH BOWL, by ROSE ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed one night the goldfish bowl Last Line: And then, of course, I woke. Subject(s): Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Nightmares; Anglers HALIEUTICA [HALIEUTICKS]: EELS AND TORTOISES, by OPPIAN OF CILICIA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange the formation of the eely race Last Line: To the loathed duties of an hated bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Oppian Subject(s): Courtship; Eels; Fish & Fishing; Reproduction; Turtles; Mating; Tortoises HAMLEN BROOK, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: At the alder-darkened brink Subject(s): Streams; Fish & Fishing; Anglers HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 4. CHESTER KOREMATSU, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fish are heavier than coal Last Line: Between flames and water Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEAVEN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fish (fly-replete, in depth of june Last Line: There shall be no more land, say fish. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Soldiers' Writings; South Sea Islands; Anglers HERRING IS KING, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let all the fish that swim the sea Last Line: Tis we have brought the summer in. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Herring; Anglers HOPE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are nights I dream of goldfish Last Line: With their strange and mournful cries Subject(s): Fish & Fishing HOW TO CATCH A BLACK-FISH, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thomson, the poet of the year, has sung Last Line: And feasts upon their folly. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Thomson, James (1700-1748); Anglers I FED THE FISHES, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day a big excursion sailed afar out in the Last Line: I fed the fishes clear to old st. Joe. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers I HAVE SOME FROZENFACED CONNECTICUT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: While the triumphant yankee's farm swept by Subject(s): Fish & Fishing I SIT UP HERE AT MIDNIGHT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Her heart is on the deep Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Housewives ICE FISHING, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From open water at the lake's Last Line: By the blood-freckled cheek of the evening snow Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Winter IDYLL 5. THE CHOICE, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When on the wave the breeze soft kisses flings Last Line: Delight the rural ear and not affray. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing IF WE COULD BE BROUGHT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we could be brought to the surface Last Line: The fish that is our slippery life / and death Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life IKE WALTON'S PRAYER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I crave, dear lord Last Line: Love, and the glad sweet face of her. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fish & Fishing; God; Love; Prayer; Childhood; Anglers IN A-FISHIN', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: W'en de sun's gone down, an' de Last Line: Chorus Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Night; Bedtime ISLA MUJERES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shoal we saw from the boat was fish; Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Dreams; Isla Mujeres, Mexico; Anglers; Nightmares ISLAND OF SUMMER: 12. THE RED MULLET, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fig flames inward on the bough, and I Last Line: Burns in the shadow of the black shoal Variant Title(s): The Red Mulle Subject(s): Fish & Fishing JOHN ROUAT THE FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret simpson was the daughter of humble parents in the county of ayr Last Line: And on a rude pallet lay poor margaret rouat cold and dead. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Marine Animals; Water JOSEF ISRAELS, by ELIAS LIEBERMAN Poem Text First Line: When the fisher-folk of the netherland coast Last Line: Who count the leaden years. Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Jews; Solitude; Dead, The; Anglers; Judaism; Loneliness JOURNEY INTO THE EYE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having no choice but to go down, the sun Subject(s): Evening; Sun; Fish & Fishing; Sunset; Twilight; Anglers LITTLE BOATIE'; A SLUMBER SONG FOR THE FISHERMAN'S CHILD, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Furl your sail, my little boatie Last Line: Harbor-lights of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers LITTLE DEATHS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every minute to two, another moth Subject(s): Death - Animals; Fish & Fishing; Moths; Anglers LITTLE FISH, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tiny fish enjoy themselves Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Fish & Fishing; Anglers LITTLE FISHERMEN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little ship goes out to sea Last Line: To cheer a world that's sad with care. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Fish & Fishing; Childhood; Anglers LITTLE SEAL-SKIN, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fisherman walked up the hill Last Line: "she slipped into the sea!" Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Seals (animals); Anglers MEDITERRANEAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I passed you many times as I went down the cliff walk Last Line: May be: best thing: endure: face front: get back on the line Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Greece; Islands; Italy; Mediterranean Sea; Greeks; Italians MONOLOGUE OF A COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers MORAL EMBLEMS II: 2, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The careful angler chose his nook Last Line: Will cram his belly full of fish. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Fish & Fishing NEAR YARMOUTH; TO EDWARD J. O'BRIEN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river holds no more the fishing boats Last Line: The river sleeps, the boats are gone again. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Marine Animals; Sea; Anglers; Ocean NIGHT FISHING IN THE SOUND, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sound is dark; you can barely hear Last Line: Safe, into the cauldron of dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Dawn; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Water; Waves; Sunrise; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 4. VOICE OF A BRETON FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Douarnenez! Douarnenez! Last Line: Break on mine eyes with the breaking day! Subject(s): Eyes; Fish & Fishing; Home; Sea; Towns; Ocean NIGHT SONG OF THE FISH, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Click here for poem Subject(s): Fish & Fishing NORTHERN PIKE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers 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 NOVEMBER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will come back to you and you to me Last Line: I will come back to you and you to me. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Grass; November; Sea; Trees; Ocean ODE TO THE PELICAN, by MINNIE ELIZABETH OTTO Poem Text First Line: The florida pelican / is a doleful old bird Last Line: On the mangrove limbs. Subject(s): Birds; Fish & Fishing; Pelicans OF FISH AND FISHERMEN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fish are subtle. Fishermen Last Line: It needn't be? That's what you think Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers OLD ST. JOE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the towns that jest suits me Last Line: They ain't no flies on old st. Joe. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Towns; Anglers OUT FISHIN', by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A feller isn't thinkin' mean Last Line: Out fishin'. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers PARODY OF LISTON'S 'BEAUTIFUL MAID.', by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fishmonger told me that soles were most dear Last Line: You've eat up my beautiful maid! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fish & Fishing; Anglers PISCES, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who said to the trout, / you shall die on good friday Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers PLUNDER, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fisherman leans backward on his cord Last Line: Sort the slim pike with eager, callused hands! Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Fish & Fishing POEM FOR ADLAI STEVENSON AND YELLOW JACKETS, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's summer, 1956, in maine, a camp resort Subject(s): Summer; Time; Fish & Fishing; Wasps; Anglers; Yellow Jackets PORTUGUESE FISHERMEN, by ALFARATA BOWDOIN HILTON Poem Text First Line: Bare, brown, singing throats Last Line: The heart to sunnier lands and years. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Wellesley College; Anglers REMORA, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poet's Biography First Line: This life is deep and dense Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers ROSARIUM, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ardent goodwife of a bad fisherman, I am blessed Subject(s): Fish & Fishing SALMON-FISHING, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The days shorten, the south blows wide for showers now Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers SALT FISH, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haddock and cod, mackerel, scrod Last Line: And the scent of them wafts through space! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers SAN PEDRO ROAD, by ROBERT HASS Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Casting, upon a salt creek in the sea-rank air Last Line: Done with casting, reeling in slowly, casting Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers SCHOOLS OF LITTLE FISH, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Falling in snow beyond the window Last Line: Until you can carry your brains in your open hands Subject(s): Film (photography); Fish & Fishing; Photography & Photographers; Anglers SEA-TROUT AND BUTTERFISH, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The contours and the shine Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers SHADOW-CASTING, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This boy's father dies. / fine. / it always happens. / the boy knows Last Line: This boy, it always happens, doesn’t know what to do anymore Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Fish & Fishing; Life; Sports; Dead, The; Anglers SILVER, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fishing is life for towns along the sea Last Line: Yet they shall keep a people until spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Water; Winter; Anglers SKATE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now a year after your death, fish-mother, skate Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers SONG, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O swiftly glides the bonny boat Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love; Anglers SONG IN SEASON, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: Ho, time to fish again! And I shall go Last Line: My soul has caught a rapturous glimpse of god. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Nature - Religious Aspects SONG OF SOLOMON JONES, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF Poem Text First Line: My love is like a milk-white mare Last Line: Where I was, here I am. Subject(s): Animals; Fish & Fishing; Horses; Love SONG OF THE FULL CATCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "here's good wind, here's sweet wind" Subject(s): Fish & Fishing;love;native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America SONG OF THE ICELANDIC FISHERMAN, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yield the bark to the breezes free Last Line: The deep is thy path, and the soul thy care. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Iceland SONG, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the fish of the bright and twittering fin Last Line: Wild song, wild light, in still ocean's dark. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing SONNET OF FISHES, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright drips the orning from its trophied nets Last Line: Death, in a dark, in a deep, in a dream, for ever. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers SONNETS OF A FISHING VILLAGE, by BURT FRANKLIN JENNESS Poem Text First Line: Low gabled houses fringe the cobbled streets Last Line: Of mother nature, twofold from the sea. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers SOUNDING HARVEY CREEK, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the narrow, splintering, slatted floor of the dock Last Line: Their bones showing like veins in a tiny leaf? Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Fish & Fishing; Solitude; Swamps; Anglers; Loneliness; Bogs; Fens; Marshes SPONGE FISHERS, by ALMA ADAMS WILEY Poem Text First Line: Sponge fishers of crete went down to the sea Last Line: Of the hardy and the brave. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sponges; Ocean SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I realize as I / cast out over the lake Last Line: Made from your blonde pubic hair Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love; Marriage; Past; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TALES, by JOHN LEE HIGGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often at sea, when fishing nets are down Last Line: Still keep their fairies singing on the weirs. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ireland; Sailing & Sailors; Anglers; Irish; Seamen; Sails THE ANGLER, by JOHN CHALKHILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the brave [or, gallant] fisher's life Last Line: And to be lamented. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Nature; Anglers THE ANGLER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou that hast loved so long and well Last Line: May'st calmly bid thy streams farewell. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE ANGLER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a blithe morning in the golden mouth Last Line: When last they stirr'd the wild-flowers on his grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE ANGLER, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But look! O'er the fall see the angler stand Last Line: The constellation, and goes his ways. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE ANGLER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When saucy celia came my way Last Line: "for I shall kill to-morrow." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE ANGLER AND THE PHILOSOPHER, SELECTION, by CHARLES JENNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fate gives us line, we shift the scene Last Line: "to distant climes, untried, unknown." Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Anglers THE ANGLER'S BALLAD, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away to the brook Last Line: With the best of good subjects be reckon'd. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE ANGLER'S REVEILLE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What time the rose of dawn is laid across the lips of night Last Line: Good luck! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Birds; Fish & Fishing THE ANGLER'S SONG, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As inward love breeds outward talk Last Line: Whom he to follow him hath chose. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE ANGLER'S SONG, by IZAAK WALTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man's life is but vain Last Line: And angle and angle again. Alternate Author Name(s): Walton, Isaac Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE ANGLER'S WISH, by IZAAK WALTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I in these flowery meads would be Last Line: A quiet passage to a welcome grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Walton, Isaac Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Nature; Anglers THE BAIT, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come live with me, and be my love Last Line: Alas! Is wiser far than I. Variant Title(s): The Baite Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Rivers; Anglers THE BOROUGH: LETTER 22. POOR OF THE BOROUGH. PETER GRIMES, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old peter grimes made fishing his employ Last Line: Again they come,' and mutter'd as he died. Variant Title(s): Peter Grimes Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Poverty; Anglers THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE ROAD, by HELEN HAYNES Poem Text First Line: On the banks of gull lake in wisconsin Last Line: I'll take the cabin at the end of the road. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE CATCH, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the golden leafage is beggared Last Line: Oh thou golden mendicant music! Variant Title(s): Vespers: 5 Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE CATFISH, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a traffic jam on st. Simons bridge Last Line: Back to the current of our breathable past. Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Dead, The; Anglers THE CATFISH, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The saddest fish that swims the briny ocean Last Line: If you know what it is! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Anglers; Ocean THE CHIEF'S PRAYER AFTER THE SALMON CATCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o kia-kunae, praise!" Last Line: Priae! Praise! Praise! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing;native Americans;salmon; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America 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 CRICKET BALL SINGS, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leather - the heart o' me, leather - the rind o' me Last Line: I but a little ball, thou but a great. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE DRUG-SHOP, OR, ENDYMION IN EDMONSTOUN, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night falls; the great jars glow against the dark Last Line: She will be fully risen. -- there's his step! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Keats, John (1795-1821); Anglers THE DRUNKEN FISHERMAN, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wallowing in this bloody sty Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE FAMOUS TAY WHALE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month of december, and in the year 1883 Last Line: That is to say, if the people all are willing. Subject(s): Boats; Dundee, Scotland; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Whales; Ocean THE FIRST FISHERMAN, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Beside a vast and primal sea Last Line: All fishermen—and ananias! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE FISH, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I caught a tremendous fish Subject(s): Environment; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sports; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Anglers; Ocean THE FISH, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a cool curving world he lies Last Line: And the dark tide are one with him. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Soldiers' Writings; Anglers; Ocean THE FISH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A pale woman is cradling a large red fish Last Line: Swims toward the bottom to sleep in the mud. Subject(s): Despair; Fish & Fishing; Hope; Salvation; Anglers; Optimism THE FISH, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the tank Last Line: Kept them awake & talking some more Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE FISH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Although you hide in the ebb and flow Last Line: And blame you with many bitter words. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Breasal The Fisherman Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE FISH THAT LIVES AT THE BOTTOM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the sea Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE FISH THAT WALKED, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from oysters / and the confused weeds Last Line: In this country of dirt Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE FISH, THE MAN, AND THE SPIRIT (COMPLETE), by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You strange, astonished-looking, angle-faced Last Line: Quicken'd with touches of transporting fear. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Variant Title(s): Three Sonnets Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Anglers; Ocean THE FISHER, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fisher is a warrior Last Line: Have glimmered, and flashed, and wheeled. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; War THE FISHER BOY JOLLILY LIVES, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Merrily oh! Merrily oh? Last Line: The fisher boy jollily lives. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE FISHER'S SON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know the world where land and water meet Last Line: The staunchest bark that floats is high and dry. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Sea; Time; Ocean THE FISHER'S WIDOW, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boats go out and the boats come in Last Line: But there's one away. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Widows & Widowers THE FISHERMAN, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: I sit beside lethean streams Last Line: The failures I'm securing. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE FISHERMAN, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters rush'd, the waters rose Last Line: And ne'er again was seen. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE FISHERMAN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along a stream that raced and ran Last Line: I know him as a fisherman. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE FISHERMAN, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've sitted here for days and days Last Line: Has seen a single fish! Subject(s): Children; Fish & Fishing; Childhood; Anglers THE FISHERMAN, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The water rushes - the water foams Last Line: And never more was seen. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Although I can see him still Last Line: And passionate as the dawn.' Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE FISHERMAN AND THE FLOUNDER; A GERMAN FAIRY TALE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fisherman, poor as poor can be Last Line: "and there, till death, shall she remain!" Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE FISHERMAN'S BETHROTHED, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crimson sun glared on her as she sat Last Line: Return to the victorian women writers project library Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Disasters; Fish & Fishing; Shipwrecks THE FISHERMAN'S CHANT, by FRANCIS COWLEY BURNAND Poem Text First Line: Oh, the fisherman is a happy wight! Last Line: As much as it ought to be. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE FISHERMAN'S HYMN, by ALEXANDER WILSON Poem Text First Line: The osprey sails above the sound Last Line: "god bless the fish-hawk and the fisher!" Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE FISHERMAN'S LIGHT, by SUSANNA STRICKLAND MOODIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The air is still - the night is dark Last Line: Through darkness shining cheerily. Alternate Author Name(s): Strickland, Susanna Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE FISHERMAN'S SONG, by THOMAS D'URFEY Poem Text First Line: Of all the world's enjoyments Last Line: Then who, &c. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! For my brain is on the rack! Last Line: The hindering veil and the spangled new gown. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE FISHERMEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hurrah! The seaward breezes Last Line: The breath of heaven shall speed! Variant Title(s): Fisher Song;the Song Of The Fishermen Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE FISHERMEN ROWING HOWEWARD, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fishermen rowing homeward in the dusk Last Line: Hearing small rumors of paddlers drowned near stars Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE FISHERS, by HERBERT H. LONGFELLOW Poem Text First Line: We spread our nets to mend them Last Line: "god found and leaves us few." Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE FISHERWOMAN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She took from her basket four fishes Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Labor & Laborers; Women; Anglers; Work; Workers THE FISHING OUTFIT, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk of stylish raiment Last Line: Suit that I go fishing in. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE FISHING PARTY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wunst we went a-fishin' - me Last Line: When I choked! . . . Ma, didn't he? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Food & Eating; Picnics; Barbecues THE FLOWER BOAT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fisherman's swapping a yarn for a yarn Last Line: To seek for the happy isles together. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE FRESHMAN'S VOCATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He had fished in the aroostook Last Line: In an envelope and sent them home by mail Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE GOOSE FISH, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: On the long shore, lit by the moon Last Line: That bears the zodiac. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love; Anglers THE GREAT BLACK HERON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since I stroll in the woods more often Subject(s): Hanoi, Vietnam; Fish & Fishing; Women - Old Age; Anglers THE HALIBUT, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dipping spruce branches into the calm water Last Line: Rising a two-hundred-pound halibut with bulging eyes. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: APRIL. TROUT-FISHING, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning, through my window, half awake Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Trout; Anglers THE INHABITANTS OF ATLANTIS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In an aquarium under the bar, the fish Subject(s): Aquariums; Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE LAST CAST; THE ANGLER'S APOLOGY, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just one cast more! How many a year Last Line: Mourned in the latest minstrel's ear! Subject(s): Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Nightmares; Anglers THE LITTLE FISHERMAN, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a little fellow once Last Line: "I will not fish again." Subject(s): Boys; Fish & Fishing THE LOBSTER, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eastern sea, 100 fathoms, Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Lobsters; Anglers THE LOBSTER MAN, by MILICENT LAUBENHEIMER Poem Text First Line: Now with stiff fingers round the heavy oars Last Line: With quickening step, the leaf-strewn path through town Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE LORD OF THE ISLE, by STEFAN GEORGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fishermen will relate that in the south Last Line: Departed with a muffled cry of pain. Subject(s): Farewell; Fish & Fishing; Pain; Parting; Anglers; Suffering; Misery THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You waves, though you dance by my feet like children at play Last Line: When I was a boy with never a crack in my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE MIRACLE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every now and then a fishing pole Last Line: Reached up his arm as if asking Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ambition; Death; Anglers; Dead, The THE MOVEMENT OF FISH, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No water is still, on top Last Line: And, of its one moment, the depth Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE MUD-FISH, BY AN INDIGNANT TORY FOOTMAN, by CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sir joseph's marble dishes Last Line: Keep the mud-fish in their places. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, Shirley Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE MYTH (A THAMES TROUT), by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Where the bulrushes grow ranker Last Line: And the broad paternal bigness and the peace of father thames! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Trout; Anglers THE NAUGHTY DARKEY BOY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a cruel darkey boy Subject(s): Blacks;boys;children;cruelty;fish & Fishing; Childhood THE NET-BRAIDERS, by THOMAS WADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a low-thatch'd hut, built in a lane Last Line: That hut, with all its want, is paradise! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE OLD ANGLER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight leaned mirrored in a pool Last Line: Dangling a baitless hook. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE OLD PIER-POST, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the sea-ward-looking one Last Line: Christ must be coming soon! Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Jesus Christ; Moon; Sea; Soul; Wharves; Dead, The; Ocean; Piers THE PAPER NAUTILUS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For authorities whose hopes Variant Title(s): A Glass-ribbed Nest Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE PHILOSOPHY OF FISHING, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The philosophy of fishin', as I understand it, man Last Line: And I ain't too big and husky for to pull a bluegill out. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE PLEASURES OF AN ANGLER, by JOHN WARREN GORDON Poem Text First Line: When birds sing best and meadows bloom Last Line: The joys that nature has refined. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 34, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where white clouds form high rugged crags Last Line: How else could they pierce my walls Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fish & Fishing; Grief; Singing & Singers; Anglers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs THE POET'S JOURNAL: SQUANDERED LIVES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fisherman wades in the surges Last Line: And we to his wisdom are blind Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers THE POOR FISH, by HENRY W. GOODRICH Poem Text First Line: I feel we cannot fail,' Last Line: Be sure he's not a floating contact mine. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Whales; Anglers THE PURSE-SEINE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight ... Last Line: That cultures decay, and life's end is death Subject(s): Environment; Fish & Fishing; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Anglers THE RED FISHERMAN; OR, THE DEVIL'A DECOY, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The abbot arose, and closed his book Last Line: Could tell the reason why! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE ROUND FISH, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With neither bones nor skin Last Line: From the one that you are making as you go. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Roads; Sea; Swimming & Swimmers; Paths; Trails; Ocean; Swimmers THE ROYAL FISHERMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: One morning in the month of june Last Line: To row you on the tide Subject(s): Fish & Fishing THE SALMON GILLERS, by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Now the full tide swallows the sandspits Last Line: Starring the river. Subject(s): Columbia River (north America); Fish & Fishing; Salmon; Anglers THE SEAL FISHER'S WIFE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The west shines out through lines of jet Last Line: From the carded wool of her gown. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love; Anglers THE SHAD SPIRIT, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now drop the holt, and securely nail Last Line: And take what the shad spirit brings. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Shad; Anglers THE SHETLAND FISHERMAN, by DOROTHY PRIMROSE CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, fair arose the summer dawn Last Line: And pamper'd luxury to weep. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Anglers; Ocean THE SINGING KNIVES, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dogs woke me up Subject(s): Knives; Hunting; Fish & Fishing; Daggers; Hunters; Anglers THE SNAKE DOCTORS, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was in the outhouse Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Crime & Criminals; Pigs; Anglers; Boars; Hogs THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA'S FISHING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth upon the gitche gumee Last Line: But the skeleton of nahma. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE SOUTH WIND; A FISHERMAN'S BLESSINGS, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh blessed drums of aldershot! Last Line: To bring such fishes back! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Wind; Anglers THE SPECKLED TROUT, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With rod and line I took my way Last Line: And opes the way to faeryland. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Nature; Trout; Anglers THE UNATTAINABLE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: I know a pool where the river Last Line: Well, we shall see. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THE USUAL WAY, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was once a little man, and his rod and line he took Last Line: Well -- they do -- in the usual way. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE VAIN KING, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In robes of tyrian blue the king was drest Last Line: And scolds the angler with a mocking scream. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fish & Fishing; Kingfishers THE VASSAL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind of the north, o far, wild wind Last Line: They claim me vassal yet! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE VOICE OF THE SEA, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Break, break, break Last Line: Thou wilt in the coming day! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Anglers; Ocean THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A NIGHT IN THE FISHERMAN'S HUT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the wind had been blowing the devil this way Last Line: Shall yield him my offerings, and make him my bow. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Netherlands; Travel; Anglers; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WONDERFUL FISHING OF PETERKIN SPRAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fisherman bold was peterkin spray Last Line: And he sailed and he sailed and he sailed away. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Sailing & Sailors; Salmon; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THEY'RE DEAR FISH TO ME', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The farmer's wife sat at the door Last Line: What breaking hearts might swell the cry: / 'they're dear fish to me' Subject(s): Adversity;death;fish & Fishing; "dead, The; THINKING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am caught in the body of a fish Last Line: Caught in the body of a fish Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Freedom; Anglers; Liberty THIS I REMEMBER, by ELISABETH CHANNING ALLEN Poem Text First Line: A cloudless sky Last Line: Fisherman . . . Do you! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers THOR'S FISHING, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy sky and heavy sea, / running cloud and wind-blown crests Last Line: So was lost the midgard snake. Subject(s): Animals; Fish & Fishing; Monsters; Mythology; Snakes; Anglers; Serpents; Vipers THREE THROWS AND ONE, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still dusk shuts out the shimmering sea, / shuts in the shadowy shore Last Line: Con sees the white face of his doom through all the world grown dim. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Luck; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wishes; Anglers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean TITANOMACHIA: GOLDEN FISH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "mute fishes, too, with eyes of gold inlaid" Last Line: Through paradisal water swum and played Subject(s): Fish & Fishing TO A FISH OF THE BROOK, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why flyest thou away with fear? Last Line: To pull the raskall in! Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Variant Title(s): Ballade To A Fish Of The Brooke Subject(s): Fish & Fishing TO A FLYING-FISH, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of bird and naiad you are born, a sprite Last Line: Eludes both human heart and human tongue! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers TO A GENTLEMAN WHO INVITED ME TO GO A-FISHING, by ELIZABETH MOODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For vacant hours of man's destructive leisure Last Line: Chagrined and weary, if it shuns the bait? Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth Subject(s): Fish & Fishing TO A KINGFISHER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: St. Peter was a fisherman, a fisherman was he Last Line: Or if I didn't actually, I think he understood! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Saints; Anglers TO A NORWEGIAN MACKERAL, by MARGERY DOUD Poem Text First Line: Through deep and clear and singing Last Line: To see you swimming here in melted butter. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Fish & Fishing; Anglers TO AN OLD FRIEND, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: The end draws near again, and very near Last Line: To meet the first march brown! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Trout; Anglers TO FISHERMEN, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more savage art: filleting: a deft pressure along the backbone Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers TO MASTER ANDREW LANG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, that are much a fisher in the pool Last Line: Shall any pious hand re-edit us? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Lakes; Dead, The; Pools; Ponds TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. BY LAKE WACHUSETT, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night-breeze murmurs odorous through the wild Last Line: Souls winged and equipped for freedom. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Freedom; Wachusett (mountain), Massachusetts; Anglers; Liberty TROLLING FOR BLUES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As with the dapper terns, or that sole cloud Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers TROUT, by BEATRICE RUTH GIBBS Poem Text First Line: Down by the bridge the speckled trout Last Line: The quiet days of peace. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers TWILIGHT-PIECE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden river-reach afar Last Line: This small strange touch of human pain! Subject(s): Evening; Fish & Fishing; Nature; Pain; Rivers; Sunset; Twilight; Suffering; Misery TWO FISHERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: One morning when spring was in her teens Last Line: A hundred-and-fifty-pounder Subject(s): Fish & Fishing;women TWO PICTURES OF A LEAF, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I make up this leaf Last Line: Come to resemble so much that does not. Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Leaves; Survival; Trees; Dead, The; Anglers ULULANI; A SEA TALE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When ululani went to feed Last Line: Will shine for ululani. Subject(s): Boats; Children; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Story-telling; Travel; Childhood; Anglers; Ocean; Journeys; Trips UNDINE: SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Fisherman, fisherman, why do you weep Last Line: Or else that your child were dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Grief; Love; Mortality; Sorrow; Sadness UNDINE: THE SONG OF THE UNDINES OR WATER-SPIRITS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We dwell in the depths of the opaline sea Last Line: Are but for a day! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Rest; Seashore; Storms; Beach; Coast; Shore VERSES IN PRAISE OF ANGLING, by HENRY WOTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares Last Line: Meet, when we come a-fishing here. Variant Title(s): In Praise Of Angling Subject(s): Fish & Fishing WE FISH, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We fish, we fish, we merrily swim Last Line: As through the seas we go. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing WE'LL GO TO SEA NO MORE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh blithely shines the bonny sun Last Line: We'll go to sea no more Subject(s): Fish & Fishing WHEN THERE IS PEACE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is peace on the sea tonight Last Line: Amid the earthquakes of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fish & Fishing; God; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Nightmares WITH SUCH DETAIL, by JOHN ROBERT QUINN Poem Text First Line: The mind with such minute detail Last Line: Talking with brother jim. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing WORDS ARE NEVER ENOUGH, by CHARLES TORY BRUCE Poem Text First Line: These are the fellows who smell of salt to the prairie Last Line: These are the fellows who keep the salt in the blood. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Language; Nova Scotia; Anglers; Words; Vocabulary |
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