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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HARBORS Matches Found: 41 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARISTOTLE'S LANTERN, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: In tidepools and hollows in mudstone rock Last Line: Life was already moving from them, into the salt air Subject(s): Diving And Divers; Harbors; Labor And Laborers; Marine Animals; Sea BOAT, by CHRISTINE GARREN Poem Source First Line: He built it sure that it was huge in a clearing of %the pines Last Line: With an ordinary foolishness Subject(s): Boats; Harbors; Sea CATGUT: A PLACE: 1. CIRCA 1930, by JEAN PEDRICK Poem Source First Line: In catgut by the harbor's edge Last Line: That's where I'll be, if I'm missing Subject(s): Harbors CATGUT: A PLACE: 2. CIRCA 1990, by JEAN PEDRICK Poem Source First Line: It catgut, where the tourists come Last Line: You can settle your gut with cutty Subject(s): Harbors; Tourists CLOUDS, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O clouds, ye are ships in the infinite blue Last Line: Where you float. Subject(s): Harbors; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean CUT CREEK,' THE RIVER IS, WM SAVILLE'S, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Plan' of the harbor 1606 Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Harbors DIRECTION, by ANNETTE TEMIN Poem Text First Line: This is a harbor where no boatman's cry Last Line: Upon some object not yet wholly known. Subject(s): Harbors; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean EVENING ON THE HARBOUR, by VIRGINIA LYNE TUNSTALL Poem Text First Line: The shining daggers of the harbour lights Last Line: Is bound about with ribbons of pale stars. Subject(s): Evening; Harbors; Sunset; Twilight FROM NORTH PORT, by ANDREW ZAWACKI Poem Source First Line: Honing a minor seventh chord on its shear Last Line: Holding our breath all the way into the harbor Subject(s): Harbors; Sailors And Sailing; Sea HARBOR, by ELENI FLORATOU-PAIDOUSSI Poem Source First Line: In the misty harbor Last Line: In the thorny eden %of my reality! Subject(s): Harbors; Life HARBOR, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I think if I lay dying in some land Subject(s): Harbors; Ireland HARBOR WATCH, by GRACE TOWNSEND Poem Text First Line: I will go down to the wharf to see Last Line: Watching the slanted sails. Subject(s): Harbors; Sailing & Sailors HARBOUR, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A harbour with the %boats going in and out Last Line: Say but I say %fish Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Harbors HARBOUR-MOUTH, by MABEL CHRISTIAN FORBES Poem Source First Line: My bark is laden - all the freight is tears Subject(s): Harbors HAWAII BOUND: 2. POETRY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Once more the sun is shining Last Line: Defy the sea again! Subject(s): Guests; Harbors; Honolulu; Islands; Tourists; Travel; Visiting; Journeys; Trips I LOVE ALL THINGS THAT CLUSTER ROUND THE SEA, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: I love all things that cluster round the sea: Last Line: And drop their anchors in the quiet bay. Subject(s): Anchors; Boats; Disasters; Harbors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Water; Ocean IN HARBOR (ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND), by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One cannot call it sorrow any more Last Line: That might as well have stopped and anchored there. Subject(s): Anchors; Boats; Harbors; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails LEAVING THE HARBOR, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last the great, red sun sank low Last Line: Lay on the shore of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Harbors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Wind; Ocean LOCALITIES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wagon wheel gap is a place I never saw Last Line: Their mothers are through waiting for them to come home. Subject(s): Harbors LONELY HARBOR, by HELEN EVELYN WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: We used to walk the wave-washed shore Last Line: Is always there for me! Subject(s): Harbors; Sea; Waves; Ocean NORDEN, by MONICA OCHTRUP Poem Source First Line: Our daughter, jennifer, comes home from her trip to west germany. She Last Line: On the table. People look up. Converstion stops. When you take light %from the candle a sailor dies Subject(s): Boats; Germany; Harbors; Travel ON THE BAY, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This watery vague how vast! This misty globe Last Line: Shows through the gray, itself in grayness lost! Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harbors; Lighthouses; New York Harbor ON THIS ISLAND, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, stranger, on this island now Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): "in This Island;seascape;""look, Stranger, At This Island Now""; Subject(s): Harbors; Islands; Religion; War; Theology ON THIS ISLAND, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, stranger, on this island now Last Line: That pass the harbour %and all the summer through the water saunter Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): In This Island; Seascape; "look, Stranger, At This Island Now Subject(s): Harbors; Islands; Religion; War PORT O' DREAMS, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a deal o' ports,' said murphy Last Line: "an' the fireflies gleamin' golden in the palms I'll never see!" Subject(s): Harbors; Nostalgia; Regret RESURRECTION, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down at devine's hotel - where night and day Last Line: Find in men's dreams her resurrection. Subject(s): Harbors; Ships & Shipping RETROSPECT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ain't it rum?' said dan one day Last Line: "what he likes best -- till it goes?" Subject(s): Harbors; Past; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping SAN FRANCISCO HARBOR, by NANCY BUCKLEY Poem Text First Line: Tall ships, majestically fair Last Line: Are harbored safe at home. Subject(s): Harbors; San Francisco SHIPS AT ANCHOR, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I love to watch them rocking to and fro Last Line: To find the rushing high-ways of the sea. Subject(s): Anchors; Harbors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips STORM-WAVES AND FOG ON DORR'S POINT, BAR HARBOR, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fog's gray curtain round me draws Last Line: And then no more. Subject(s): Fog; Harbors; Sea; Storms; Waves; Haze; Ocean SUNSET IN THE HARBOR, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into night's arms there sinks the wounded sun Last Line: And covers her with veils of mauve and gray! Subject(s): Evening; Harbors; Sunset; Twilight SYDNEY HARBOUR CONSIDERED AS A MATISSE, by JOHN FORBES Poem Source First Line: One slip & you're back, via whitely & ken Last Line: Crushed on sandstone piers? Maybe just Subject(s): Harbors; Matisse, Henri (1869-1954); Sydney, Australia THE HARBOR, by JOSEPHINE PINCKNEY Poem Text First Line: Boatlights are clustered on the smooth blackness Last Line: Refugees from too great beauty. Subject(s): Harbors THE HARBOR, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Passing through huddled and ugly walls Last Line: Veering and wheeling free in the open. Subject(s): Harbors THE HARBOUR FOG, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Fog in the harbour, - sky and waterway Last Line: "none is self-pilot on the harbour tide." Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Fog; Harbors; Haze THE LONG WHITE SEAM, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I came round the harbor buoy Last Line: Sewing the long white seam. Subject(s): Harbors; Light; Love; Marriage; Soul; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE OLD SHELLBACK, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By murphy's hotel as I loitered along Last Line: And a crew of hard cases from liverpool town! Subject(s): Harbors; Past THE PENDULUM, by JURGIS BALTRUSHAITIS Poem Text First Line: When the dumb darkness most heavily clings Last Line: Cold, ineluctable footsteps of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Baltrushaitis, George; Baltrushaitis, Iurgis; Baltrushaitis, Yurgis Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harbors; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean TRANSUBSTANTIATION, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Across santa barbara harbor, masts lean like white Last Line: Shaft of straggly feathers, here and there, shed Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Harbors; Santa Barbara, California; Travel UN BRUIT QUI COURT, by MAUREEN GIBBON Poem Source First Line: On the island, women are moored like boats Last Line: Split silently so that you would never know Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harbors; Islands UNKNOWN HARBOR, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Housebound in a house not our own Last Line: For the festival by way of an unknown harbor Subject(s): Boats; Camping; Harbors; Sea Voyages |
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