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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GEOGRAPHY Matches Found: 52 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GEOGRAPHIC QUESTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a maiden once, with eyes of blue" Last Line: Degrees down there are n't bigger Subject(s): Geography;history;household Employees; Historians;servants;domestics;maids A LESSON IN GEOGRAPHY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars of the great bear drift apart Subject(s): Geography AERIAL GEOGRAPHIES, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: An aerial broad view of landscape, high Last Line: African genes. Ethnic dna...Aboriginal cave glyphs may point a way Subject(s): Barbados; Earth; Farm Life; Flowers; Geography; Maps; Paintings And Painters; Plants; Sugar AEROGRAM PUNJAB, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sailed by africa, back home [or, pyramids] Last Line: You're good with maps. Find me [or, what a holiday. I'm a globe] Subject(s): Africa; Geography; Maps; Sailors And Sailing; Travel BOOK OF (HR)RS, SELS., by PATRICIA MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: Say something geographically accurate. Sorcery from the syllogisms. Why don't Last Line: Translation, not exact ('loosely adapted') all horizons on our heads : woeful and empty the sea Subject(s): Geography; Language BOOK OF TRIBUTES: COSMORAMA, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look - wool / in which: gold stars we got Last Line: From devouring a lunch of air. Then there was lights. Subject(s): Cosmology; Earth; Geography; Maps; Travel; Universe; World; Journeys; Trips CANADA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crown of her, young vancouver; crest of her, old quebec Last Line: Appraised at highest value, cargoes of grain and gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canada; Geography; Canadians CARTOGRAPHY, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Only the bird sees what I see Last Line: When I retrace them I leave my seal, %a map painted %of soul Subject(s): Geography; Maps; Paintings And Painters CITIES, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: San francisco ss Last Line: New york p Subject(s): Cities; Geography; Travel CLERIHEW, by EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The art of biography %is different from geography Last Line: Geography is about maps, %but biography is about chaps Alternate Author Name(s): Bentley, E. C. Subject(s): Biography; Geography COLORED COUNTRIES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: From greenland's icy mountains to / far-off borneo Last Line: Geography that's studied so. Subject(s): Continents; Geography; Greenland; September; Travel; Journeys; Trips FINDING THE CENTER, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Charles and I had played there all along Last Line: Of the state %of %california Subject(s): California; Farm Life; Geography; Labor And Laborers GEOGRAPHY, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Islands and peninsulas, continents and capes Last Line: The little white-skinned stranger who is in geography! Subject(s): Geography GEOGRAPHY, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Geography GEOGRAPHY, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: In fourth grade we played geography Last Line: Beyond here there be monsters Subject(s): Continents; Geography; Maps GEOGRAPHY JOURNEYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We do not take a car at all, and yet we Last Line: But never stay abroad to play. Subject(s): Children; Exchange Students; February; Geography; Travel; Childhood; Foreign Exchange Programs; Journeys; Trips GEOGRAPHY OF TIME, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We think of time past Last Line: Not even the clothes to wear Subject(s): Geography; Time HISTORY OF THE SEVEN FAMILIES OF THE LAKE PIPPLE-POPPLE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In former days-that is to say, once upon a time, there lived in the land Last Line: Building; for if you do not, you certainly will not see them Subject(s): Animals; Geography; History; Museums; Nature HYMN TO GOD MY GOD, IN MY SICKNESS, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I am coming to that holy room Last Line: Therefore that he may raise the lord throws down. Subject(s): Catholics; Christianity; Death; Geography; God; Sickness; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dead, The; Illness ILLINOIS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Domain of homes and herds and fields Last Line: Majestic illinois! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Geography; Illinois IN MRS. TILSCHER'S CLASS, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You could travel up the blue nile Last Line: As the sky split open into a thunderstorm Subject(s): Geography; Schools; Students IN MRS. TILSCHER'S CLASS, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You could travel up the blue nile Last Line: You ran through the gates, impatient to be grown, %as the sky splits open into a thunderstorm Subject(s): Geography; Schools IN THE LANGUAGE OF MAPS, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The mapmaker is measuring the earth Last Line: The language of maps is constantly changing Subject(s): Geography; Maps; Travel LESSON 6, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is geography? Subject(s): Geography LESSON IN GEOGRAPHY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars of the great bear drift apart Last Line: That speaks and hears as though it were myself Subject(s): Geography LOST BY WAY OF TCHIN-TABARDEN, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Nomads are said to know their way by an exact spot in the sky Last Line: Out of balance, untaught; ready for something called home Subject(s): Geography; Home; Travel MAP, by ATSURO RILEY Poem Source First Line: Daddy goes %trolling and trawling and crawfishing and crabbing and Last Line: Buried half-pints from the woods Subject(s): Geography; Hunting; Travel MAP, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: Aventine mount Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Geography; Maps MAP FOR LEAVING, by JILL OSIER Poem Source First Line: I was over you yesterday Last Line: I couldn't tell you Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Geography; Maps; Mississippi River; Mount Rainier; Nature; Rivers; Travel MAPPAMUNDI, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the pages I am turning are early pictures of the world Subject(s): Geography MAPPARIUM, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: In geography class we learn the world Last Line: I'll take this globe as my own Subject(s): Continents; Geography; Maps; Travel MAPS, by ALBERTO BLANCO Poem Source First Line: Let's start at the beginning Last Line: Nothing has set foot in a map %nothing is written in poetry Subject(s): Geography; Islands; Maps; Travel NEW YORK AT NOON, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The city burrows toward the shade Last Line: On the silver-bristled swine. Subject(s): Geography; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips OF GEOGRAPHY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Northern ice in southern sun Last Line: Melts a little, holds its own Subject(s): Geography; Ice PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO CHAOS IN THE HEARTLAND: 1. ROAD TRIP, by JESSICA GOODFELLOW Poem Source First Line: It's a good idea to collect as much entrophy as possible Last Line: It's such a lovely dark, mama,' he says Subject(s): Geography; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Travel PIO BAROJA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In london or madrid, geneva or rome Last Line: He's seen the last petal linger and crash Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Cities; Geography; Travel READING THE CLASSIC OF HILLS AND SEAS: 1, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Start of summer, grass and trees grown tall Last Line: In the space of a nod I've toured the universe - %how could I be other than happy? Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Geography SUCH FUNNY THINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They teach such funny things in school! Last Line: Or see the things I see! Subject(s): Children; Earth; Geography; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; World; Students THE BORDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the dreamers of old coronado Last Line: And a people with sun in their veins. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Boundaries; Colorado (state); Cowboys; Geography; Prairies; Borders; Plains THE GEOGRAPHER'S GLORY; OR, THE GLOBE IN 1730, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When through the windows buzzed the way-lost bee Last Line: Those fruitful wonders of the natural world. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Geography; Past THE HILLS ARE HOME; 'OLD HOME WEEK,' 1899, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forget new hampshire? By her cliffs, her meads, her brooks afoam Last Line: Whatever skies above us rise, the hills, the hills are home! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Geography; Homecoming; Nature; New Hampshire THESE DAYS, by LEON STOKESBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These days I live on top of a piney ridge Last Line: Of an engine grinding down. That takes my breath away Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fields; Geography; Georgia (state); Travel TIPPERARY: 1. BY OUR OWN JAMES OPPENHEIM, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far, / the lineally-measured distance from east Last Line: But my sky-soaring soul, my myriad-hearted heart is there. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Geography; Oppenheim, James (1882-1932); Tipperary, Ireland; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Journeys; Trips TO AN OLD GEOGRAPHY, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Like some street-straying waif-so torn-so tattered Last Line: Stretch into kingdoms—as you pondered names? Subject(s): Geography TO GET TO FRESNO, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: To get to fresno, %you need to turn left Last Line: Welcome back, fresno. %welcome back home.' Subject(s): California; Geography; Maps; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration TOPONYMY, by RALPH GUSTAFSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lens and line Last Line: Field, what sky. Subject(s): Geography; Maps TRAVELING THE MAP, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: The map shows me my attempted life Last Line: Of escape %the shimmer of sky at dusk Subject(s): Atlantis; Geography; Maps; Mythology - Classical; Travel TRIGEMINUS, by DURS GRUNBEIN Poem Source First Line: Then we went swimming, on familiar terms with the dead Last Line: Before the brief since-then Subject(s): Geography; Maps; Travel VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY AMMONS AND LI PO, by LEON STOKESBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night on the national geographic channel Last Line: And then the moon Subject(s): Geography; Mountain Climbing; Travel VERSAILLES, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: The borders of the countries on the earth's crust Last Line: At the silliest hour. You are slovenian, therefore sad Subject(s): Geography; Travel; Versailles, Frances WATER SKETCHES, by A. WALTER SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: Fragile river boats Last Line: Of silver moire. Subject(s): Geography; Rivers; Water WOMAN WITH A HOLE IN THE MIDDLE OF HER FACE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: She begs in the bus station Last Line: To persuade her to move away Subject(s): Commuters; Geography; Pain; Travel |
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