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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GIANTS Matches Found: 23 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ENCOUNTER, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At two thousand feet the sea wrinkles like an old man's hand Last Line: The night stirred angrily like an old suspicion Subject(s): Fog; Giants; Sea; Water; Haze; Ocean FINE FIGURE OF A NYMPH, THE LOVES OF THE PLANTS, by ERASMUS DARWIN Poem Text First Line: Gigantic nymph! The fair kleinhovia reigns Last Line: And bears her trembling lover in her arms. Subject(s): Giants; Hercules; Love; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs GEBIR: 1, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the fates of gebir. He had dwelt Last Line: His brother's love, and sigh'd upon his own. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 2, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gadite men the royal charge obey Last Line: And tell the halcyons when spring first returns. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 3, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O for the spirit of that matchless man Last Line: And bent toward them his bewilder'd way. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 4, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king's lone road, his visit, his return Last Line: "king of the western world, be with you peace." Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 5, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a fair city, courted then by kings Last Line: "take this,"" she cried, ""and gebir is no more." Variant Title(s): Masar Subject(s): Cities; Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Urban Life; Dead, The GEBIR: 6, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now to aurora borne by dappled steeds Last Line: Atlas and calpe close across the sea. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 7, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mortal first by adverse fate assail'd Last Line: His eyes grew stiff, he struggled, and expired. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GIANTESS, by DEVON MILLER-DUGGAN Poem Source First Line: She's a wonderment for sure Last Line: And ask to climb back in Subject(s): Giants GIANTS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I take no pride in body's growth Last Line: Deserves a giant's name. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Giants; Size & Shape; Height JACK THE GIANT-KILLER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell you a story - an' it's a fac' Last Line: Wisht 'at I'd been jack! -- don't you? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Giants ODYSSEY: BOOK 9. IN THE ONE-EYED GIANT'S CAVE, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Odysseus, the great teller of tales, launched out on his story Last Line: Yet sick at heart for the comrades we had lost Subject(s): Giants; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses ON SOME GHOSTLY COMPANIONS AT A SPA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had an evil day when I Last Line: Find it, ye ogres, and be off! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Fantasy; Giants SLEEPING GIANT; A HILL IN CONNECTICUT, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole day long, under the walking sun Last Line: And winter pulled a sheet over his head Subject(s): Children; Connecticut; Giants; Mountains; Poetry And Poets THE BROWN GIANT, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Hurrah for this rough brown giant of ours! Last Line: The bloodless battles of toil. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Giants; God; Railroads; Railways; Trains THE GIANT, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brave chiefs! In the land of the giants I was born Last Line: What mountain my tomb is may wondering seek! Subject(s): Giants THE GIANTS OF HISTORY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little people behind the scenes are getting ugly Last Line: No good to them now, in their hour of need Subject(s): Friendship; Giants; History; Historians THE LAND OF THE GIANTS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The land of the giants is an old and dark and cold land Last Line: "in his might he laid about him; and—the giants were no more!" Subject(s): Giants THE OGRES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the palisade of silver birch-trees Last Line: By any gust of anger or despair. Subject(s): Anger; Giants; Men THE QUEEN'S COMPLAINT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In ruck and quibble of courtfolk Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Giants THE SLEEPING GIANT (THUNDER BAY, LAKE SUPERIOR), by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When did you sink to your dreamless sleep Last Line: Storm-swept till the world is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Giants; Past THE SLEEPING GIANT; A HILL IN CONNECTICUT, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole day long, under the walking sun Subject(s): Children; Connecticut; Giants; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain) |
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