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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Subject: GOLD Matches Found: 147 49', by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poet's Biography First Line: We have worked our claims Last Line: We shall strike it up in the stars Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners A BUSH LEGEND, by MARIE E. J. PITT Poem Text First Line: Back in the heart of the gippsland hills Last Line: Listens and makes no sign. Subject(s): Death; Gold Mines & Miners; Legends; Dead, The A BUSH SECRET, by BERNARD MCELHILL Poem Text First Line: The sun had set, and weary walked Last Line: A secret of the bush. Subject(s): Deception; Gold Mines & Miners A GOLDEN DREAM, by KATHRYN ROESER DUNLAP Poem Text First Line: The sun came out of the east Last Line: And found a place in the west. Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Frontier & Pioneer Life; West (u.s.); Gold Rush; Forty-niners; Southwest; Pacific States A MAN PROSPECTING, by J. E. LIDDLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man prospecting for the gold Last Line: He weakened, raved, and soon he died. Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Gold Mines & Miners; Insanity; Pain; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery A MAN SAW A BALL OF GOLD, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man saw a ball of gold in the sky Last Line: Ay, by the heavens, it was a ball of gold. Subject(s): Gold A PECK OF GOLD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Dust always blowing about the town Last Line: We all must eat our peck of gold.' Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Dust; Gold Rush; Forty-niners A SONG OF GOLD, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a nun within a white Last Line: "the night of white and gold?" Subject(s): Gold A SUPPLICATION, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, we whose sturdy sires Last Line: Turn thou our souls from the dread glamour -- gold! Subject(s): Gold; Greed; Humanity; Religion; Avarice; Cupidity; Theology A WILD GOOSE CHASE IN THE WHIPSTICK SCRUB, by H. HEAD Poem Text First Line: Old jack gave us a wild goose chase Last Line: That ever formed a team. Subject(s): Fools; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Hunting; Idiots; Hunters A YARN OF LAMBING FLAT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Call that a yarn!' said old tom pugh Last Line: His fix on lambing flat.' Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners;practical Jokes;story-telling; Pranks AFTER THE COMANCHES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Saddle! Saddle! Saddle! Last Line: "bring her home on the crupper, / a scalp on either side" Subject(s): Gold;native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America AN EASTERN JUDGE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Before a judge two arabs came Last Line: "the gold is thine: go now thy way." Subject(s): Gold; Judges AN INVECTIVE AGAINST GOLD, by ANNE KILLIGREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the poisons that the fruitful earth Last Line: Who thus hast caus'd to sin all humane kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne Subject(s): Gold APPLES OF GOLD IN A NETWORK OF SILVER (FOR A FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY), by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: You have walked the trail together Last Line: Fifty years. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Gold; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love BALLAD OF THE GOLD COUNTRY, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the hill the gold sand burned Last Line: "upon another day!" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold; Vines & Vineyards; Gold Rush; Forty-niners BARELY COMPOSED, by ALICE FULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are so not gold. Subject(s): Gold BEARING WITHNESS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Weep with the star of gold Last Line: The leaf that never grows old Subject(s): Gold; Immortality; Language BEFORE WE MOTHERNAKED FALL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Oil Fields; Gold BILL BROWN, by E. S. SORENSON Poem Text First Line: I met bill brown on the prospect track Last Line: Astride of a camel cow. Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BOB HOLLY, by J. E. LIDDLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two men a 'pipe' had in a 'show' Last Line: And none have seen him from that date. Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Exiles; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Punishment BUCOLIC COMEDY: EVENING, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prince absolam and sir rotherham redde Last Line: Instead of the cherries ruddy and cold. Subject(s): Gold BURIED GOLD, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a little bird's-nest of a house Last Line: As buried they were not. Subject(s): Gold BURLESQUE ON COLORADO'S GOLD-MINING DAYS, by LILLIAN HANSON WHITE Poem Source First Line: I am looking for a gold mine Last Line: That's the truth! I'm not a liar! %I wanna gold mine that's all mine!! Subject(s): Colorado (state); Gold Mines And Miners CALIFORNIA, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blue, blue, april blue Last Line: Gold, gold, gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Blue (color); California; Colors; Gold CATCHING THE COACH, by ALFRED T. CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: At kangaroo gully in 'fifty-two Last Line: "to post this here letter for nell by the mail." Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, A. T. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Hunting; Hunters CHILD'S SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is gold worth, say Last Line: Love's worth love. Subject(s): Gold; Leaves; Love COMMENTARY ON ORANGE, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Orange dies out in the ascending fire' roared our Last Line: Who brought forth nought of the lead, save roy. G. Biv Subject(s): Orange (color); Gold' Lead (metal) CONSUMING GOLD, by MILDRED P. HENRY Poem Text First Line: My trifling finger-tips reach out for gold Last Line: I pale to think of those whom I denied! Subject(s): Gold; Materialism COWSLIP-GOLD, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rising from the murk and mould Last Line: Count my cowslip-gold! Subject(s): Gold; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes DANCE TO BAAL, by FELIX KOWALEWSKI Poem Text First Line: With lithe young body sheathed in cloth-of-gold Last Line: To greet her lord in virgin arrogance! Subject(s): Bodies; Dancing & Dancers; Gold; Idols; Statues DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF AMERICA, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then first columbus, with the mighty hand Last Line: His gold and he were every nation's prey. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): America - Exploration; Gold; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity DOMINICAN GOLD, by PAT MORA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They wade into the river Last Line: Fill with a loud light Variant Title(s): Gold Subject(s): Gold DOMINICAN GOLD, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They wade into the river Last Line: When their hands, dark and knobby as wet twigs, %fill with aloud light Variant Title(s): Gol Subject(s): Gold EL DORADO, by GRANT SHOWERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a youthful would-be poet Last Line: "crowded out for want of space!" Subject(s): Gold EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 36. GOLD THE PICKLOCK, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden key unlocks the iron door Last Line: It proves like quicksilver in virgin-lap. Subject(s): Gold; Keys; Love EPIGRAMME, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast ever seen man Last Line: I turn up this nugget. Subject(s): California – Gold Discoveries EUREKA, by ARTHUR TRUMAN MERRILL Poem Text First Line: O hunters for gold Last Line: "may read ""eureka!" Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Sympathy; Empathy FALLEN, by TIM DIVITO Poem Source First Line: However did gold turn into black asphalt Last Line: That tastes so sweet upon the lips Subject(s): Gold FOOL'S GOLD, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See him there, cold and gray Last Line: He can't play. Subject(s): Ambition; Business; Gold; Investments; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Stocks; Bonds FORT ORD, CALIFORNIA, 1953: 1. CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR, by HENRY CARLILE Poem Source First Line: Through dust deepened by others Last Line: Protested to the dust. For what? %there will be other wars, he said Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; War FOUR SONGS, by EDITH JABSON Poem Text First Line: Blaze not your glory Last Line: In the centre of space. Subject(s): Gold; Legends FROM THE FAIR LAVINIAN SHORE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Though you are threescore years old. Subject(s): Gold; Markets; Retail Trade; Salespersons; Supermarkets; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Selling FURNESS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From my low window I behold Last Line: On wood and hill and waterway. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Evening; Flowers; Gold; Roses; Sunset; Twilight GILDING REFINED GOLD, by FRANCIS PATRICK DONNELLY Poem Text First Line: At times the drifting clouds a profile trace Last Line: By journeyings of god's eternity! Subject(s): Gold GOLD, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mighty pain to love it is Last Line: Gold, alas, does love beget. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Gold; Love; Love - Materialism GOLD, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a castle on a hill Last Line: Was gold, and gold, and gold. Subject(s): Castles; Gold GOLD, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a place where the glare of the madded sun / tore Last Line: Gold! Subject(s): Gold GOLD, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: A lock, leaf, a ring Last Line: The moon moves %across the sky Subject(s): Gold GOLD, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I longed for gold, and gold I sought Last Line: It seems that all I have is gold. Subject(s): Gold GOLD, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rub the sleep out of your eyes Last Line: For the end of gold is dust. Subject(s): Gold GOLD, by GRACE ROREM ROBBINS Poem Text First Line: As brilliant as a nugget on the floor Last Line: Lest gold-flecked dreams become but ashen grey. Subject(s): Gold; Time GOLD, by HELEN M. SHUSTER Poem Text First Line: A bit of sun in my window-nook Last Line: No wealth I need -- for these are gold! Subject(s): Gold; Sons GOLD AND STEEL; THE ANSWER, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have asked, and you have answered Last Line: Steel, to meet your foes for you. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Gold; Steel GOLD COAST CUSTOMS, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One fantee wave Last Line: For the fires of god go marching on. Subject(s): Customs, Social; Gold Coast, Africa GOLD COIN, by DON FARRAN Poem Text First Line: Gold coin, gold coin Last Line: Who fought you near anoor! Subject(s): Gold; Money GOLD FOR GOLD, by BESSIE S. HENLEY Poem Text First Line: Gold coin - to repay Last Line: This gold of mine that you scorned. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Gold GOLD HUNTING, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The miser hurries through the town Last Line: Gather some before you're old! Subject(s): April; Dandelions; Flowers; Gold; Harvest; Weeds GOLD LEAVES, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone ought to write about (I thought Subject(s): Gold; Alchemy & Alchemists GOLD MINING IN AUSTRALIA, 1895, by ANNE CHERNER WHITEHOUSE Poem Source First Line: You face the wind blowing Last Line: There are more ways of drowning %than in water Subject(s): Australia; Gold Mines And Miners GOLD RUSH: 1848/1996, by ALANE ROLLINGS Poem Source First Line: The motorcycle cop was performing rodeo stunts Last Line: Never knew what might go gold Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries GOLD!, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Gold! 'mid the north's magnetic hush Last Line: A finer ore than e'er was minted! Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners GOLD-HUNTERS, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We rovers bold Last Line: And in the golden haven ride! Subject(s): Gold GOLD-MINERS, by MAZISI KUNENE Poem Source First Line: Towers rise to the skies %sounds echo their music Last Line: Walking the deserted halls %we who are locked in the pits o f gold Subject(s): Gold Mines And Miners; South Africa GOLDEN AGE. FR. AMINTA, by TORQUATO TASSO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O lovely age of gold Last Line: Dies once for all; and sleep brings on eternal night Subject(s): Crowns; Gold; Love GOLDEN DAYS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another day of toil and strife Last Line: May be a golden one. Subject(s): God; Gold; Paris, France GOLDEN HOUR, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the one enchanted minute Last Line: To-morrow looms a golden sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Gold; Seasons; Spring GOOD LUCK GOLD, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: When I was a baby Last Line: I need my luck this afternoon Subject(s): Gold GORIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In gorias are gems Last Line: And pale gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Courts & Courtiers; Gold; Jewelry & Jewelers; Love; Treasures GOTHAM, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Far off (no matter whether east or west) Last Line: I know it duty, and I feel it fame. Subject(s): Duty; Freedom; Gold; Great Britain - Rulers; Liberty HARRY DALE AND OLAF CUBB, by J. E. LIDDLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two men I knew met in a pub Last Line: And out of it by coach that night. Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward Subject(s): Betrayal; Crime & Criminals; Escapes; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Fugitives HIDDEN GEMS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know not what lies in us, till we seek Last Line: Which, seeking, thou shalt find. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Gold; Pearls; Thought; Wealth; Thinking; Riches; Fortunes HITCHING A RIDE WITH GOLD MINERS IN THE YUKON, by ALISON APOTHEKER Poem Source First Line: In dark fog this cariboo highway Last Line: Of something, %I riffle like thin water over rock Subject(s): Gold Mines And Miners; Hitchhikers; Yukon Territory HOUR OF GOLD, by MURRAY C. KIRK Poem Text First Line: O, not when purple curtains of the sky Last Line: Shall glow one hour of gold to light the closing way. Subject(s): Death; Gold; Life; Sky; Dead, The IN 1947 A SINGLE GOLD NUGGET WAS FOUND, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In between life has passed Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Explorers; Gold; Nature; Time IN THE DEAD-LETTER OFFICE, by R. STEWART Poem Text First Line: Come, rip the mail-bags open, chaps, and sort the stuff away Last Line: "you'll maybe murmur with a sigh, ""the perth dead mail is in." Subject(s): Death; Gold Mines & Miners; Postal Service; Dead, The; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen IN THE JOVIAL AGE OF OLD, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Bridal blossoms from love's bower. Subject(s): Gold INDEPENDENCE MINE, by LAURIE A. EVANS Poem Text First Line: By what light do we call a day Alternate Author Name(s): Evans-dinneen, Laurie A. Subject(s): Gold; Mines & Miners ISRAEL FREYER'S BID FOR GOLD, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zounds! How the price went flashing through Last Line: And give us a better atmosphere! Subject(s): Gold; Speculation IT WAS GIVEN TO ME BY THE GODS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The difference made me bold Variant Title(s): Poem: 454; Poem: 45 Subject(s): Gold JOHN SUTTER, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was the patriarch of the shining land Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Sutter, John (1803-1880); Failure; Gold Rush; Forty-niners L'ESCARGOT D'OR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tavern of the golden snail! Last Line: O tavern of the golden snail! Subject(s): Gold; Paris, France; Snails LAS CASAS, by MICHAEL HOFMANN Poem Source First Line: I leaned round the corner in a gold rush town Last Line: A percussive crash, a surprisingly durable cloud. Jubilation, and no eyes raised Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries MARIGOLD, by HARRY SAFFORD CANDEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love confinement in thy bonds Last Line: I marry gold! Subject(s): Comedy; Gold MINOAN GOLD, by SARAH SCHNEEWIND Poem Source First Line: Stalactites of honey; catacomb Last Line: And leave. We live on what the gods bequeath Subject(s): Gold; Mines And Miners MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER MORAL, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Last Line: And now of a bloody mary! Variant Title(s): The Ruling Power Subject(s): Gold; Money NEW GOLD, by MARY LEONARD WEST Poem Text First Line: New gold that surges up the hollow Last Line: New gold. Subject(s): Apollo; Gold; Mythology - Classical; October NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature's first green is gold Last Line: Nothing gold can stay. Subject(s): Gold; Life Change Events; Transience; Impermanence ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If hoarded gold possess'd a power Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Gold; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine ODE, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When gold, as fleet as zephyr's pinion Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Gold; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE TO AN INDIAN GOLD COIN, WRITTEN IN CHERICAL, MALABAR, by JOHN LEYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slave of the dark and dirty mine! Last Line: Go mix thee with thy kindred clay! Subject(s): Gold OLD FOSSICKER JACK, by J. M. MARSHE Poem Text First Line: Tis a desolate picture, whose colour is dead Last Line: Came here, and has left but—old fossicker jack. Alternate Author Name(s): M., J. Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Memory; Nostalgia OLD GOLD, by MARY ANN DALY Poem Source First Line: We walk in the old gold mins, following Last Line: Smells cancerous. The dog lies down and cries %seeing the gold as gray Subject(s): Gold Mines And Miners ON ELLEN GOING WRONG, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tittle tattle!' said black shoes Last Line: "tittle tattle!"" said black shoes." Subject(s): Black (color); Gold; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers ON GOLD, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This glitt'ring metal, dazzler of the eyes Last Line: The more we drink of thee, the more we thirst. Subject(s): Gold; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity ON LUST FOR GOLD, by AVERY L. GILES Poem Text First Line: Steam shovel, crane your neck and stuff your craw! Last Line: Then back they run for more, scorning rebirth. Subject(s): Gold; Lust; Sonnet (as Literary Form) OVER THE CHILKOOT TRAIL, by LISA D. CHAVEZ Poem Text First Line: I still recall the details of that day Subject(s): Gold; Yukon Territory REQUITAL, by RUTH INSCHO Poem Text First Line: A fortnight ago, a thief plundered my zinnias Last Line: Spilled on the maples that brighten the hill Subject(s): Gold RUMPELSTILTSKIN, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Straw into gold - what's technology's Last Line: Whose riddle, whose child, whose gold? Subject(s): Anthropology; California - Gold Discoveries; Native Americans; Rumpelstiltskin SCARECROW GARDENS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Late-summer squash put out to sea Last Line: In many forms: the best is art. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Art & Artists; Gardens & Gardening; Gold SCORCHER, by CARRIE HEIMER Poem Source First Line: These homemade hips Last Line: That burns gold and hot copper and fire Subject(s): Fire; Gold SEVEN HONEST MEN, by MARTIN BENSON Poem Text First Line: Their faith in one another it was wonderfully great Last Line: They panned-off half a pennyweight, those seven honest men. Alternate Author Name(s): Sun, Ben Subject(s): Deception; Gold Mines & Miners; Punishment SPRING AND AUTUMN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green ripples singing down the corn Last Line: And full of winter pain. Subject(s): Corn; Gold; Green (color); Pain; Winter; Suffering; Misery STATE OF THE UNION: 15. HANDSHAKE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bouquets are not enough Last Line: If delivered abroad Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Gold; Peace STATE OF THE UNION: 16. NEW CURRENCY, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gold has rolled into a pit Last Line: Will the young ever find it? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Gold; Money; Trade STATE OF THE UNION: 18. SONG OF THE NEW MILLIONAIRES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So close to the desert or forest Last Line: The land of all we see Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Gold; Wealth STEEL OR GOLD?; THE QUESTION, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will you have me gold or steel Last Line: Fine steel, or gold? Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Gold; Steel SUNKEN GOLD, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In dim green depths rot ingot-laden ships Last Line: The gleam of irrecoverable gold. Subject(s): Disasters; Gold; Shipwrecks; Treasures SUTTER'S FORT, SACRAMENTO, by LUCIUS HARWOOD FOOTE Poem Text First Line: I stood by the old fort's crumbling wall Last Line: Dust and ashes and nothing more! Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Sutter's Fort, California; Gold Rush; Forty-niners THE ADAMS RIVER BUSH, by M. J. O'REILLY Poem Text First Line: We left good old coolgardie Last Line: With the adams river rush. Alternate Author Name(s): Mick, Mulga Subject(s): Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE CALIFORNIA ESCHSCHOLTZIA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The orange hue of the rainbow Last Line: In a tent of the cloth of gold. Subject(s): California; Courts & Courtiers; Gold THE DAYS OF '49, by CHARLEY RHODES Poem Text First Line: Here you see old tom moore Last Line: In the days of '49. Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold Rush; Forty-niners THE DAYS OF '84, by RANDOLPH BEDFORD Poem Text First Line: Let's go back on to the roper, where they say they've struck the stuff Last Line: We were men, and we dealt straight with all in the days of '84. Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Nostalgia THE DAYS OF FORTY-NINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you are looking [or, we are gazing] on old tom moore" Last Line: "refrain -- but my heart is filled, etc" Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold Rush;forty-niners THE FIRST CALL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I was wearied to-night from my quest of gold Last Line: My children and my wife. Subject(s): Gold; Spiritual Healing; Faith-cure THE GIFTS OF GOLD, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Desire of joy - how keen, how keen it is! Last Line: Desire of joy and tears -- ah, gifts of gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Gold; Happiness; Tears; Joy; Delight THE GOLD PIECE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: My lord will not miss of all his store Last Line: Because I have stolen from my lord the ransom he would not give. Subject(s): Death - Children; Gold; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise THE GOLD THAT GREW BY SHASTA TOWN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From shasta town to redding town Last Line: By pleasant, sunlit shasta town. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold Rush; Forty-niners THE GOLD-SEEKERS, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw these dreamers of dreams go by Last Line: Though the gold of the dice has been lost. Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold Rush; Forty-niners THE GOLDSMITH, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This job's the best I've done. He bent his head Last Line: A girl was selling flowers along the street. Subject(s): Crete; Gold THE HEART OF THE SOURDOUGH, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There, where the mighty mountains bare their fangs unto the moon Last Line: Even as lean wolf-dog goes down will I go down and die. Subject(s): Gold; Yukon Territory THE KLONDIKE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never mind the day we left, or the way the women clung to us Last Line: Looking each his own way to find the golden river. Subject(s): Gold; Klondike; Patriotism THE LAND OF GOLD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the sunset's bars in the wide west Last Line: "until great death has come to make men wise." Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Gold THE LOW-DOWN WHITE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the pay-day up at the mines Last Line: Swift staggering through the snow. Subject(s): Gold; Yukon Territory THE LUST OF GOLD, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Rapacious spain Last Line: And left a blank among the works of god. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): America - Exploration; Gold; Spain THE MEN OF FORTY-NINE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those brave old bricks of forty-nine! Last Line: Who made a pathway with their dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold Rush; Forty-niners THE NEW ARGONAUTS, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today the good ship sails! Last Line: O cursed love of gold! Subject(s): Fortune; Gold Mines & Miners; Greed; Sailing & Sailors; Avarice; Cupidity; Seamen; Sails THE PIRATE, by FLORENS FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: What d'ye think I want o' stars?-risin' Last Line: I feel them—o, I feel them a-draggin' of me down! Subject(s): Disasters; Gold; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Treasures; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE PROSPECTOR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I strolled up old bonanza, where I staked in ninety-eight Last Line: You will but I've sought the last recorder, and he's -- god. Subject(s): Gold; Yukon Territory THE REALMS OF GOLD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the palms of san diego Last Line: A song that had out-soared death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Gold; Poetry & Poets; San Diego, California; Dead, The; Nightmares THE REIGN OF GOLD, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It sounded in castle and palace Last Line: "cling! Clang! For the reign of king gold." Subject(s): Gold THE RESCUE, by EDWARD DYSON Poem Text First Line: There's a sudden, fierce clang of the knocker, then the sound of a voice in the Last Line: Fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Dyson, E. Subject(s): Gold Mines & Miners; Mothers & Sons THE RICH MAN, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rich man, in the diatribes of virtuous Last Line: Godless crimes. Subject(s): Gold; Money; Upper Classes; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes THE SPELL OF THE YUKON, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted the gold and I sought it Last Line: It's the stillness that fills me with peace. Variant Title(s): The Land God Forgot Subject(s): Gold; Religion; Yukon Territory; Theology THE TRAIL OF NINETY-EIGHT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gold! We leapt from our benches Last Line: The test of the trail was over -- thank god, thank god, we were home! Subject(s): Gold THE TREASURE OF GOLD; A LEGEND OF ITALY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A beautiful story, my darlings Last Line: That came of the treasure of gold! Subject(s): Gold; Legends, Italian THE UNGRATEFUL GARDEN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midas watched the golden crust Last Line: "nature is evil,"" midas said." Subject(s): Environment; Gold; Midas; Women; Women's Rights; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Feminism THE VINDICTIVES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You like to hear about gold. Last Line: Of being brought down to the real Subject(s): Gold THE YUKON'S SONG OF THE GOLD, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Lo! We are the waters that come from afar Last Line: The cañons of unsought gold. Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Gold; Hunting; Treasures; Yukon Territory; Gold Rush; Forty-niners; Hunters THEY SAY GOLD IS MINED IN CLEAR WATERS, by PAK P'AENGNYON Poem Source Last Line: They say love means the most to us %but can we love all we meet? Subject(s): Gold Mines And Miners TO THE MISSISSIPPI, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They came from fierce, burnt spain to seek for gold Last Line: Of hot, long listlessness and moody course. Subject(s): Death; Explorers; Gold; Mississippi; Dead, The; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers TO THE PIONEERS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How swift this sand, gold-laden, runs! Last Line: Sierra's snow-topt battle tents. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Pioneers; Gold Rush; Forty-niners TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE GOLDEN WEDDING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now fifty years through wind and sun and rain Last Line: We shall perchance awaken. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Churches; Gold; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WE ALONE, by ALICE WALKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We alone can devalue gold Subject(s): Gold; Love WE HAVE DREAMED TOO MUCH OF GOLD, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: We have followed the monster mammon on the broad Last Line: While out in the lovelit gardens the lonely roses blow. Subject(s): Dreams; Gold; Money; Nightmares WHAT GOLD CANNOT BUY, by KATHERYN SWEET EASTERDAY Poem Text First Line: A miser old Last Line: To heaven's port beyond the sky. Subject(s): Gold; Greed; Wealth; Avarice; Cupidity; Riches; Fortunes ZIMBABWE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the darkness whence they came Last Line: Like us, like us, for love of gold. Subject(s): Gold; Zimbabwe |
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