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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CERTAIN SLANT, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Etched on the window were barbarous thistles of frost
Subject(s): Ice; Winter


AFTER THE FIGHT, by ELISA ALBO    Poem Source                    
First Line: She watches him slip out %to the kitchen and open
Last Line: Chills and dries out %the bones, ice traps %and preserves forever
Subject(s): Hell; Ice; Quarrels


AFTER THE FOURTH ICE STORM, by ANNE SHELDON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bird could walk the crust but no bird does
Last Line: Nothing here remembers what it was
Subject(s): Ice; Survival; Winter


AN ESKIMELODRAMA; [OR THE ESKAPADE OF AN ESKAMAID], by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mid greenland's polar ice and snow
Last Line: Is thus kept green in verse by me
Subject(s): Eskimos;greenland;ice;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


AND GOD CREATED MICE, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was doing yoga one night
Last Line: I already look crazy enough
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Yoga; Ice


ARCTIC CATHEDRAL, by KRISTJANA GUNNARS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the ice cathedral of troms0 they had
Last Line: In an ocean of blue, a sea of purple light
Subject(s): Churches; Ice


ARCTIC THAW, by BESMILR BRIGHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the first days of the heavy north melt
Last Line: In their steady lay cold
Subject(s): Arctic; Cold; Ice; Snow


AT 31 FLAVORS, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wait with two other women
Last Line: Leave, looking innocent. That's how all these things start
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Ice Cream; Social Problems


AUTUMN, by ANN DIXON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peeking through a curtain of cold
Last Line: Dreaming already of next year's glory
Subject(s): Ice


BANTAM LEAGUE, by CALEB CORKERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My brother's jacket reads: tim
Last Line: Put one back, %practiced
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Ice; Sports


BLEEZER'S ICE CREAM, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am ebenezer bleezer,
Subject(s): Ice Cream


BOARD OF TRADE SALOON, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: 5 p.M., shuffling west
Last Line: An icy view that portends %the nome night's violence
Subject(s): Eskimos; Ice; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Winter


CERTAIN SLANT, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Etched on the window were barbarous thistles of frost
Last Line: The smooth cool plunder of celestial fire?
Subject(s): Ice; Winter


CHEWING ON ICE, by KATHI APPELT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here %iceosaurs roam
Last Line: Sharp reminders of their %terrible bites
Subject(s): Ice


CHILD PLAYING WITH ICE, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the metal bowl a child
Last Line: Shattering on the ground
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Ice


COLD SNAP, by BILL YAKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fall cold %snaps closed
Last Line: Spring snaps %winter open
Subject(s): Ice


COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: THE GLACIER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: At one of its sources the river
Last Line: And our swift journeys beneath the stars
Subject(s): Alaska; Glaciers; Ice; Pacific Ocean; Tourists; Travel


COMES WINTER, THE SEA HUNTING, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was your very first wall, your crib against
Last Line: Through...
Subject(s): Birth; Fathers & Daughters; Ice; Poverty; Sea; Walls; Child Birth; Midwifery; Ocean


COMPENSATIONS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's goin' to be a chris'mas-tree next door!
Last Line: Them upstarts know!
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Ice; Play; Snow; Winter; Childhood; Nativity, The


CROSSING THE BRIDGE: 1, by HUGH HENNEDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: After experiencing much of
Last Line: Backroads to work that pleasant %morning of all saints
Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Ice; Quarrels


CRYSTAL AND CORAL, by LOUIS GINSBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Each tree is armored in ice. Each street
Last Line: Lost atlantis of crystal and coral!
Subject(s): Ice; Trees


DANGEROUS ICE, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ice foams %like sloshing suds
Last Line: When you see ice bubble
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Ice


DEATH IS INTENDED, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Isn't that what eskimos did when they were old
Last Line: Even the white new hampshire mountains
Subject(s): Death; Eskimos; Ice; Native Americans; Old Age


DECEMBER LEAVES, by ALBA NORA MARTINEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: December leaves %behind sleet showers
Last Line: Blue window-burns
Subject(s): Ice


DRESSING THE DEAD, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All indigo now as the dye in his veins
Last Line: A mother why her child cried all night
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Ice


ENIGMA: 15, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where will ye seek me? The andes rise
Last Line: To the heart of the sturdy village boy.
Subject(s): Ice


FIRE AND ICE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some say the world will end in fire, / some say in ice
Last Line: And would suffice.
Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fire; Hate; Ice; Judgment Day; Men; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


FIRST ICE, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: No wind will walk upon the water there
Last Line: To build so light and delicate a thing.
Subject(s): Ice


FORCE OF ICE, by GEORGE O'CONNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bitterness of age is space
Last Line: With the force of ice %stand into crystals
Subject(s): Ice


FROST FLOWERS, by LOUIS JENKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the morning people go off to work all wrapped and bundled, through
Last Line: Blossoms open around us all night
Subject(s): Cold; Frost; Ice; Winter


FRUSEN GLADJE, by TOM DARBYSHIRE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Ice Cream


GLEAMS IN THE SNOW LANE, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Around the mountain over there %also the radio reports ice
Subject(s): Automobiles; Ice; Roads; Winter


GRACE FOR ICE-CREAM, by ALLAN M. LAING    Poem Source                    
First Line: For water-ices, cheap but good
Last Line: We thank thee, lord, who sendst with heat %this cool deliciousness to eat
Subject(s): Ice Cream


GREEN, by NEIL SHEPARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night I heard it again: ice
Last Line: Assess the mildewed things %green beyond saving
Subject(s): Ice; Spring


HE LIT A FIRE WITH ICICLES, by KAY RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was the work / of st. Sebolt, one
Subject(s): Fire; Ice


HIEROGLYPH, by ANN TURNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A slip, a slide
Last Line: Dancing in the moonshine snow
Subject(s): Ice


HOW TO EAT AN ESKIMO PIE AFTER TURNING FOURTEEN, by JOHN SONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Approach eskimo pies with terpidation
Last Line: Becomes a word
Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Food And Eating; Ice Cream


I DID NOT EAT YOUR ICE CREAM, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Ice Cream


I HEARD THE LAKE CHEEPING, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To break through the shell
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Ice; Lakes; Nature


ICE, by CAROL DINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's windless %where the fisherman drills an auger hole
Last Line: Being fished from the comfort %of silt %into the sirens
Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Ice


ICE, by FANNY HOWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: They say ice
Last Line: Your liquor, your dog, but not your death
Subject(s): Ice


ICE, by ALEX RICHARDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It used to excite me to see
Last Line: Into the box and filled the trays %with water
Subject(s): Ice


ICE, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When winter scourged the meadow and the hill
Last Line: Wherein to sit and watch the fury pass.
Subject(s): Ice; Nature; Winter


ICE, by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Such as had an interest
Last Line: And the fishes saw a well in the sun
Subject(s): Ice; Snow; Winter


ICE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I once was water, and again
Last Line: To wander where I will.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Ice


ICE AGE, by AMY GERSTLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A million years ago the earth grew cold. Iowa was covered by
Last Line: The rocks applaud. Summers turn short and cool. The world remakes itself %without us now
Subject(s): Ice Age; Iowa


ICE BRIDGE, by JANE YOLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine a billy goat
Last Line: To pay the toll
Subject(s): Ice


ICE CAN SCREAM, by JANE YOLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ice can scream, %ice can shout
Last Line: Winter in %and autumn out
Subject(s): Ice


ICE CREAM, by GEORGE HERRTIMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If it don't melt all will be well, otherwise all won't
Last Line: Don't melt, ice-cream, dahlink, not yet not yet
Subject(s): Ice Cream; Language


ICE CREAM MAN, by FLORENCE ANTHONY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You know what I've got
Last Line: Smile for me, honey, %or better yet, just say, 'freeze.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ai
Subject(s): Ice Cream


ICE CUBES, by JANE YOLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was water you couldn't catch me
Last Line: Attributed %to warmness
Subject(s): Ice


ICE CYCLE, by MARY ANN HOBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've always thought it rather nice
Last Line: And start an icicle instead
Subject(s): Ice


ICE FISHING IN MINNESOTA, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You've in walleye world if, as thoughts grow stranger
Last Line: Place in water where the line trails off into uncharted depths
Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Ice


ICE LAKE, by TOM WAYMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Again I have been brought
Last Line: I am destined to encounter and endure
Subject(s): Fate; Ice; Lakes


ICE LEAVES, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I feel caught in a snare
Last Line: Trees break if they don't bend
Subject(s): Ice; Leaves; Trees


ICE SHALL COVER NINEVEH, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Distant on the meridian verges
Last Line: And for this wheat what winnowing floor what flail
Subject(s): Glaciers; Ice; Legends


ICE SHALL COVER NINEVEH, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Distant on the meridian verges
Last Line: And for this wheat what winnowing floor what flail
Subject(s): Glaciers; Ice; Legends


ICE SISTERS, by PAMELA POWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fevered nights, we held the water bottle close
Last Line: Formations, bubbles in that deep, inky black
Subject(s): Ice


ICE STORM, by UNA W. HARSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Winter is in no happy mood today
Last Line: To build a wondrous fairyland of ice.
Subject(s): Ice; Storms; Winter


ICE STORM, by LAURIE J. LAMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I forget the cold bed's cargo of blankets, clothes
Last Line: I must crouch to enter and leave this house
Subject(s): Ice; Storms


ICE WITCHERIES, by ADELINE M. JENNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shingled in light and tipped with fire
Last Line: To shattered crystal on the grasses.
Subject(s): Crystallization; Ice; Physics; Winter


ICE-CREAM FIEND, by JR. RICHARD MYERS PEABODY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She loves ice cream more than anything else
Last Line: Honeymoons in hershey park, pennsylvania %drowns in a pool of chocolate mint
Subject(s): Ice Cream


ICE-CREAM MAN, by ORGILL COGIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sunny streets I come from, where
Subject(s): Ice Cream


ICE-CREAM MAN, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When summer's in the city
Last Line: The way the children cluster round %as thick as honeybees
Subject(s): Ice Cream


ICE-CREAM PAIN, by JEFF MOSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the back of my throat meets the bottom of my brain
Last Line: With that (oooh! Owww!) incredible ice-cream pain!
Subject(s): Desserts; Ice Cream


ICEBERG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not its air but our own awe
Last Line: Before they can again grow apple trees
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Cold; Death; Ice; Sailors And Sailing


ICEBERGS, by ROGER BLAKELY    Poem Source                    
First Line: After a winter of cold nor'easters, summer halts at a threshold forty
Last Line: Flown off the night before
Subject(s): Antarctica; Ice; Winter


ICEBOUND, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nine below and each window's
Last Line: And the perceptible chill invades
Subject(s): Cold; Death; Ice; Snow; Winter


ICEHOUSE, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The icehouses lie scattered
Last Line: And eyes that glaze but cannot close
Subject(s): Ice


ICETRAP, by ROSS MARTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside the heavy tents
Last Line: Waiting. Like fish %paved over by winter
Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Ice


ICICLE, by DONALD LEVERING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The icicle had been growing since the first snow
Last Line: Stopped and he %grew old
Subject(s): Ice


ICICLE, by NOVICA TADIC    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The icicle is a crystal-woman
Last Line: So they may eat %something too
Subject(s): Ice


ICICLES, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swell %and %grow
Last Line: Your %breath %away
Subject(s): Ice


ICICLES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Puppets dangle from the tips of her glances
Last Line: In darkest africa, they club her to death.
Subject(s): Ice; Puppets; Marionettes


ICICLES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This fragile witchery of frost
Last Line: That leads unto the central sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Cold; Frost; God; Ice; Nature - Religious Aspects


IF ICE, by WILLIAM WRIGHTSON EUSTACE ROSS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If / ice shall melt
Last Line: Forest-bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, W. W. E.
Subject(s): Ice; Spring


IN THE COLD KINGDOM, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poised upside down on its duncecap
Subject(s): Ice Cream


IN THE ICE PASTURE, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Something cried in the field and I took the binoculars
Last Line: Or one beast being born.
Subject(s): Drowning; Ice


INSCRIPTION FOR AN ICE-HOUSE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger, approach! Within this iron door
Last Line: To rush in whirlwinds forth, and rule the year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Ice Houses


KIMONO-MAKER CONTEMPLATES ICE, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: One dawn ice appears
Last Line: Summer kimono %he knows
Subject(s): Arctic; Explorers; Ice; Winter


MIXER, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Angus the mixer stood above us
Last Line: And how we raced around for stones to hit it %when the beer was gone
Subject(s): Conversation; Ice Cream; Learning


MUMMY MEETS HOT-HEADED NAKED ICE-BORERS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Djedmaatesankh-temple musician, wife of paankhntof
Last Line: Gauze dripping from her shrivelled, childless hands
Subject(s): Ice; Mummies; Quarrels


MY DOG, by ALBA NORA MARTINEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sit! -- on the snowbank there beyond
Last Line: Landscape: new york paradise
Subject(s): Ice


NECKLACE, by JANE YOLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Around its neck
Last Line: And a capacity for cold
Subject(s): Ice


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


ONCE UPON ICE, by CHRISTINE CROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tiny thing, dry, thin, and light
Last Line: Amasses wealth against the night
Subject(s): Ice


OPERA OF THE ICE, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more, icy fingers
Last Line: Your town again, ok
Subject(s): Ice


OVERNIGHT ICE, by BARBARA DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Next time, this is what I'll remember
Last Line: It has the magic of the moon, bubbling
Subject(s): Ice


PAST MIDNIGHT', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Creep through the duckweed
Subject(s): Ice; Night; Bedtime


PAST MIDNIGHT', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Creep through the duckweed
Subject(s): Ice; Night


PROTEUS, by CHRISTINE CROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was water you couldn't catch me
Last Line: Never will
Subject(s): Ice


RUSSIANS ICE DANCING TO THE BLUES, by PAUL HAMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What was she thinking %with that dancer's smile
Last Line: Her arms to the music %like a deranged flamingo
Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Ice; Russia


SAINT FRANCIS IN WINTER, by RUTH KNOWLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is a sorry slight to leave out there
Last Line: If so he yet can speak, he knows not death.
Subject(s): Ice; Snow; Stones; Winter; Granite; Rocks


SAPPHO AND PHAON: 2. THE TEMPLE OF CHASTITY, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High on a rock, coeval with the skies
Last Line: While love, his arrows broke, retires forlorn.
Subject(s): Affliction; Frost; Ice; Love; Temples; Mosques


SHOVEL, by DABNEY STUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: My neighbor's out early
Last Line: Slowly with his exposed thumb, and lets go
Subject(s): Ice; Neighbors


SILVER FILIGREE, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The icicles wreathing
Last Line: In the blue cave of night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Ice; Winter


SISTER WATER: THE ICE, by AMADO NERVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: To cover the fishes in the depths, which are dying of cold
Last Line: And I prayed, 'let us praise god, brother ice!'
Subject(s): Death; Frost; God; Ice; Praise; Religion


SLEET STORM, by GLENNYS RIVOLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a thought that haunts me in the night
Last Line: Is pain the only soil where splendor grows?
Subject(s): Affliction; Beauty; Ice; Night; Storms; Bedtime


SNOW, by TZU LAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dense, swirling, falling through azure emptiness
Last Line: Vagrant flakes drift in and stain his inkstone black
Subject(s): Ice; Snow; White (color); Winter; Zen Buddhism


SO OLD, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ice remembers what men forget
Last Line: He's not born yet.
Subject(s): God; History; Ice


STANDING IN A WINTER FIELD GAZING AT A PHOTOGRAPH OF ICE, by J. C. TODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Icefalls, mountains, frozen lake, all of it
Last Line: I take in the whitening, the cold
Subject(s): Cold; Ice; Photography And Photographers; Winter


TABLEAU AT TWILIGHT, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit in the dusk, I am all alone
Last Line: Muttering spells like an angry druid, %alone, in the dusk, with the cleaning fluid
Subject(s): Ice Cream


THAW: SUN MELTING ICE AT 12 DEGREES F, by JAMES S. PROFFITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In fields there are stalks, husks, cobs
Last Line: All the glory of ice, murmuring, strangely undoing
Subject(s): Ice; Sun


THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Call the roller of big cigars
Last Line: The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
Subject(s): Ice Cream


THE ICE HOUSE, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The house was really a cellar deep beneath the tower of the old
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Ice Houses


THE ICEHOUSE, POINTE AU BARIL, ONTARIO, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each vast block in its batter
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Ice Houses


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 100, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For an image of life and death
Last Line: Both life and death are fine
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Ice; Life; Reincarnation; Water; Dead, The; Transmigration; Pretas


THE SKI-RUNNER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Above you burns a molten - copper sun
Last Line: Then out! Into a wilderness of light!
Subject(s): Games;ice;skiing; Recreation;pastimes;amusements


THERE IS A LAKE OF ICE ON THE MOON, by PAMELA SUTTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inna cherniahivsky must be dead by now, I promised
Last Line: There is a lake of ice on the moon
Subject(s): Death; Ice; Moon


THIN ICE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now this paste of ash and water
Last Line: This cold's life, death's steamy mark and target.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Absence; Atlantic Ocean; Death; Ice; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The


TO GUNTON (THE LONDON CONFECTIONER WHO INVENTED ICE-CREAM), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wreath for you, and ardent praise
Last Line: Columbus gunton!
Subject(s): Ice Cream


TO PROTECT ITSELF THIS POND, by SIMON PERCHIK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And the now invisible silence
Subject(s): Ice; Lakes; Winter


TRAIN WINDOW, by ROBERT FINCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dark green truck on the cement platform
Last Line: Box-cars beyond, while our train waits here.
Subject(s): Ice; Railroads; Railways; Trains


TURNING, by JAMES MCCORKLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Icicles, as long-stemmed as ornaments or trumpets
Last Line: The ground ahead littered with leaves and molted %skins
Subject(s): Ice; Water


VERY HOT DAY, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know what's going to happen
Subject(s): Ice; Heat


WAR SUITE: 2, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing sixty-seven wars, the war now
Last Line: He wishes suddenly to be stronger than a car.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Fairy Tales; Ice; Dead, The


WATER JEWELS, by MARY FRANCES MARSHALL BUTTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A million little diamonds
Last Line: And stole them all away.
Subject(s): Ice


WATER LACE AND WHITE EYES, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the mist rising
Last Line: In the northern dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Bones; Frost; Ice; North, The; Snow


WHITEOUT, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You expect to see swirling chunks of ice
Last Line: "no shooting from here."" but ""here"" is ""there."
Subject(s): Ice


WINDOW IN WINTER, by NANCY WILLARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who seeded this garden
Last Line: Is already eating it
Subject(s): Ice


WINTER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pointed icicles hung on my porch in the moonlight / glittering bright
Last Line: In my unfaith!
Subject(s): Cold; Ice; Seasons; Silence; Snow; Winter


WINTER, by JUDY JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First light shook with ax blows to the frozen pond
Subject(s): Ice; Winter


WINTER, by JUDY JORDAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First light shook with ax blows to the frozen pond
Last Line: And like sorrow, waits and will not fade
Subject(s): Ice; Winter


WINTER FIELD, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The winter field is not
Subject(s): Winter; Skating & Skaters; Ice


WINTER PIECE, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Delicate ermine tracks
Last Line: And watches their eyes through chinks in the ice
Subject(s): Ice; Snow; Winter


WINTER WRAPS, by CAROL E. REED-JONES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Single %leaf
Subject(s): Ice


WINTER'S FINGERS, by CAROL JANE BANGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old man holds out
Last Line: Something terrible beckons to me
Subject(s): Ice


WORLDLY SUCCESS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A winter world. Ways icy. Most men fall
Subject(s): Winter; Ice


WRECKING YARD, by MARTIN WALLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Midwinter.An oilstone sky.The river's diesel-slow frieght of ice
Last Line: Worlds geared inside worlds
Subject(s): Ice; Indiana; Winter


YELLOW RIVER AT BIAN-ZHOU BLOCKED BY ICE, by DU MU    Poem Source                    
First Line: When a thousand miles of long river
Last Line: Flowing on eastward by night and day %and no one can tell
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Ice; Yellow River, China