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| Searching... Subject: LAKES Matches Found: 340 11-JUN, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Twilight clouds %mushrooming to the west Last Line: And no man ventures speech Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing A DAY AT CASTROGIOVANNI: 2. PROSERPINE BY LAKE PERGUSA, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lifted on hollow lands and grassy miles Last Line: Dark lover, death, -- was he not beautiful? Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Lakes; Persephone; Dead, The; Pools; Ponds; Proserpine; Proserpina A FOREST LAKE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lake of sylvan shore! When gentle spring Last Line: Or dusking in the wake of tardy oars Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds A LAKE MEMORY, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lake comes throbbing in with voice of pain Last Line: This rain of spray that blows about my face. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds A LAKE SUNRISE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Sheathed by the everlasting sky Last Line: Whereon an angel lingering may kneel and pray. Subject(s): Angels; Dawn; Lakes; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds A LITTLE POOL, by MYNA A. RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Water lies curled Last Line: On a stone footstool. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds A MAN GETS OFF WORK EARLY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And decides to snorkel in a cool mountain lake. Subject(s): Snorkeling; Death; Lakes; Pollution; Dead, The; Pools; Ponds A RHPASODY; WRITTEN AT THE LAKES IN WESTMORLAND, by JOHN BROWN (1715-1766) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now sunk the sun, now twilight sunk, and night Last Line: Of quiet whispering to the ear of night. Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Silence; Westmorland, England; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime A RIVER POOL, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet streamlet bason! At thy side Last Line: That home, of peace, if not of love. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds AFTER SUNSET - LAKE WEELOKENEBAKOK, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At twilight azescohos standeth Last Line: Shall be for us color and music? Subject(s): Evening; Lakes; Sunset; Twilight; Pools; Ponds AFTERWARDS, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Gifts and ghosts in the %fog horn's call Last Line: Warmth coming to things %and acceptance Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing ALONE, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: This silent moon %of no excuses Last Line: Able to count the counties for miles, %joyously alone Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing AMONG THE LAKES, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Perhaps the roman, when he ruled this land Last Line: Ullswater, derwentwater, windermere. Subject(s): England; Lakes; Nature; English; Pools; Ponds AN OLD FISH POND, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green growths of mosses drop and bead Last Line: The wood-birds dip and drink. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds APPLAUSE, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Once again, running in Last Line: The lost boat coming home Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing APRIL LAKE, by EVELYN NORCROSS SHERRILL Poem Text First Line: The lake has many different gowns Last Line: When april leads the sun to rest. Subject(s): April; Lakes; Pools; Ponds ARABESQUE, by FLORENCE BROOKS Poem Text First Line: Out on the glassy surface of the lake Last Line: In my eyes' mirror, is but my own soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Malone, John, Mrs. Subject(s): Lakes; Love; Soul; Pools; Ponds ASSEMBLING THE TROOPS, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Stoneport coming up and the deckhands Last Line: The kind of day we've been looking for Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing AT GULL LAKE: AUGUST, 1810, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gull lake set in the rolling prairie Last Line: Knew where she lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Lakes; Native Americans; Nature; Pools; Ponds; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AT LAKE MAHOLE; DEDICATED TO LOUIS J. PAPINEAU OF MONTEBELLO, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Stretched on a hillside's wooded height Last Line: Awaking, onward we will roam. Subject(s): Lakes; Solitude; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness AT THE BANK OF A LAKE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Black sedans the mayor ordered %from the city Last Line: Of a naked moonlit woman %asleep beside a lake Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Nudity; Old Age AT THE LAKEHOUSE, by BRIGHDE MULLINS Poem Source First Line: The man on the porch is only the man Last Line: Of the lake. But more seldom. %and too late Subject(s): Lakes AT THE SHORE OF THE GREAT LAKE MICHIGAN I COME UPON THE FEET OF ..., by STEVEN SHERRILL Poem Source First Line: On the bluff above, a caveat - beach closed. No entry after dark Last Line: This is my church, my church, and I believe %in the feet of egon schiele %in the moonlight Subject(s): Great Lakes; Seashore AUTUMN STIRRINGS: 7, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The waters of kun-ming pool Last Line: Lakes and rivers fill the earth, %and one old man, fishing Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Autumn; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Lakes; Seasons BEAR LAKE, by SARAH HUCKVALE Poem Source First Line: Bear lake forever! Last Line: The chorus of our song Subject(s): Lakes BEAUTIFUL MONIKIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful monikie! With your trees and shrubberies green Last Line: Which supplies the people with water belonging dundee. Subject(s): Lakes; Tourists; Travel; Pools; Ponds; Journeys; Trips BLESSING OF THE FARM POND, by ROBERT P. COOKE Poem Source First Line: I love the modest farm ponds Last Line: To the ants and spiders I watch fumbling through the field grass Subject(s): Lakes BLEST IS THE TARN, by SARA COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blest is the tarn which towering cliffs o'ershade Last Line: She yields that dream of bliss to ever welcome sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Lakes; Mountains; Tarns; Nightmares; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BLIND-FISH CAVE, by SUSAN TERRIS Poem Source First Line: Somewhere high on the transparent mountain Last Line: Within echoes of a reality too edgy to control Subject(s): Caves; Fishing And Fishermen; Lakes BLUE HOLE, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The deepest pool in green river Last Line: Between local pool, high ocean Subject(s): Lakes; Water BODHISATTVA AWAKES, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: I'm still waiting for that wind Last Line: Morning and the pulse %of light coming Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing BREATHER, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Pastel greys awash %in lavender Last Line: We are %entering lake superior Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing BRIDGE, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: The sea is fog glisten Last Line: We are lost in the day Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing BY AN INLAND LAKE, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Last Line: Thro' golden, august noons. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds BY RYAN'S POND, by ROBERT+(2) LEE Poem Source First Line: All day wishing the skin off Last Line: As my sandwich, its mayonnaise, %drums up the flies Subject(s): Food And Eating; Lakes CHINESE POOL OF THE MOON (NEAR FORGOTTEN ARHAN), by KATHERINE SHUMARD SANDERS Poem Text First Line: The moon on the pool is silver Last Line: In a low and eerie croon. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds CLEARING PORT, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: In the pewter silver sky deep water mirror Last Line: Oh wilderness campfires. You, in the middle, you Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing COLOR CODING, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Down detroit river Last Line: Reading course to wheelsman Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing COMPOSED BY THE SIDE OF GRASMERE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds, lingering yet, extend in solid bars Last Line: "ravage the world, tranquillity is here!" Subject(s): Grasmere, England; Lakes; Pools; Ponds COW POND, by BETH CAGLE BURT Poem Source First Line: Surges with bullfrogs Last Line: Above the rub %of crickets Subject(s): Lakes DAY AND NIGHT, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Over the empty lake Last Line: The soul of a sailor %lonely Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing DECK IS SECURED, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: After knock-off, back to room - my home Last Line: Heartbeat bum bum bum %good companions... %sleep awhile Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing DEEP IN THE FOREST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Deep in the forest there is a pond Last Line: "our brothers, even the birds and deer, / who always float down to us / with alarmed and startled ey Variant Title(s): After The Anonymous Swedish; Seventeenth Century Subject(s): Death;forests;lakes;water; "dead, The;woods;pools;ponds; DING-A-LING -- NO SALE, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Got some god-damned hernia in my left Last Line: Out there in the heat, floating Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing DUDDINGSTONE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With caws and chirrupings, the woods Last Line: We had been drowned in love. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Duddingston, Scotland; Lakes; Love; Pools; Ponds DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Going aft, joe's face pops through hatch Last Line: Then cracks him in it Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing EDGE, by CHARLOTTE FARRINGTON BABCOCK Poem Text First Line: The pond is cold, steel-blue, like the bright blade Last Line: We pierce the shadowy waters far below. Subject(s): Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds EDWIN MORRIS; OR, THE LAKE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O me, my pleasant rambles by the lake Last Line: The light cloud smoulders on the summer crag. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Lakes; Love - Loss Of; Pools; Ponds ELEPHANTS, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Last night %he moon-splashed sea Last Line: Pictures of elephants mating Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing EMERALD LAKE (EAST DORSET, VERMONT), by JAMES ROSE Poem Text First Line: When the winter's snow has gently covered Last Line: And makes a bit of heaven of the place. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds ENCOUNTER, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lake that was caked ice is ice no more Last Line: Bands closing them) lie, like matching rings Subject(s): Hunting; Lakes; Hunters; Pools; Ponds ENCOUNTER, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lake that was caked ice is ice no more Last Line: Closing top and bottom - lie like matching rings Subject(s): Hunting; Lakes ENGLE FERRY, by EUGENE MANLOVE RHODES Poem Text First Line: Engle ferry is narrow and deep Last Line: On engle ferry and engle ford. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds ESCAPE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep pools there are, pools quiet and still Last Line: And yet cannot escape from you? Subject(s): Escapes; Lakes; Memory; Moon; Stars; Fugitives; Pools; Ponds ESSAY: DUCKS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Break what is the / nectarine - word Last Line: Of the thought: dusks reflect you Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Ducks; Lakes; Mallards; Drakes; Pools; Ponds EVENING ON LAKE COMO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside my garden's ivied wall Last Line: The dreams of youth come back to me. Subject(s): Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Lakes; Life; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Pools; Ponds EVENING ON LAKE SUPERIOR, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like to a molten globe which workers turn Last Line: Our shadowy tow-boat followed in our wake. Subject(s): Great Lakes; Night; Bedtime EXCURSION ON LAKE DONG-TING: 4, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: West I gaze from lake dont-ting Last Line: And there in bright colors painted %is the mountain of the lady Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Lakes EXPELLING, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Whole sky the color of snow Last Line: Seem to get [or, go] out %smoothly Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing FEAST: POND, by MICHEAL O'SIADHAIL Poem Source First Line: We'd been netting minnows in the pond all morning Last Line: A fiesta of hoops keeps swelling beyond and beyond Subject(s): Lakes FOR MONTHS ON END THE TIRELESS LAKE...', by CHRISTIAN VIREDAZ Poem Source Last Line: Cupped in your little hand Subject(s): Lakes FOREST POOL, by CHARLES J. QUIRK Poem Text First Line: It's a looking-glass for wild and lovely things Last Line: To bathe its slender silver as it shone. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds FROM AN ALBUM OF GHOSTS, LAKE WASHINGTON, 1941, by HALLIE MOORE Poem Source First Line: Look at the camera Last Line: In which she must walk away %out of the water, alone Subject(s): Lakes; Photography And Photographers; Vacation FRONT PORCH, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS Poem Source First Line: People who live in cities never know Last Line: Who can remember many things with pride, %who built front porches neighbourly and wide Subject(s): Country Life; Great Lakes FUSION, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: This day's beauty already written on Last Line: Don't move. You don't decide nuthin'.' Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing GOING ASHORE, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: This morning %the beach glows like a baby's skin Last Line: So much %old immigrants' song Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing GOING INTO WINTER, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Who is he who does not Last Line: The beautiful death %of the drowned Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing GOING TO THE OPERA, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: It is a day burning like fire and rushing Last Line: A triumph we do not understand Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing GREAT LAKES OF CANADA, by GORDON PERRY Poem Source First Line: What about each great canadian lake Subject(s): Great Lakes; Mnemonics GREEN POND, by SMITH ELY Poem Text First Line: Above the plain upon the mountain crest Last Line: By the great artist's hand in nature's coronet. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds GREENWOOD LAKE, by ISAAC MCLELLAN JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gaze forth where herbert loved to gaze Last Line: Reflecting the o'erhanging wood. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds GUILDER POND, by CHRISTINE BOYKA KLUGE Poem Source First Line: Sitting here on the rocks Last Line: Sinking like silver rings %into stillness Subject(s): Grief; Lakes; Meditation HANGOVER, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Quiet, new day - live through each other Last Line: There must be a better way %to make a living Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing HE SAID TURN HERE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And then tony showed us the lake Subject(s): Lakes; Summer; Grief; Pools; Ponds; Sorrow; Sadness HEMATITE LAKE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is another kind of sleep Last Line: Not even nightfall, whose gold we are, can find us Subject(s): Birds; Lakes; Nature; Swans; Pools; Ponds HOCKNEY: BLUE POOL, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Los angeles, / california: / a summer afternoon Subject(s): Cities; Hockney, David (b. 1937); Gays & Lesbians; Lakes; Los Angeles; Urban Life; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Pools; Ponds HOCKNEY: BLUE POOL, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Los angeles, %california: %a summer afternoon Last Line: Snaps a photograph %of the splash Subject(s): Cities; Hockney, David (b. 1937); Homosexuality; Lakes; Los Angeles HOMEWARD BOUND, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the starry night is gone Last Line: Of our childhood . . . Long ago! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Gardens & Gardening; Home; Lakes; Childhood; Pools; Ponds HOW LUCKY IN ONE LIFE TO SEE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The sun lift a cloud from a pool! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Clouds; Lakes; Nature; Sun HOW ONE WINTER CAME IN THE LAKE REGION, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For weeks and weeks the autumn world stood still Last Line: Fast fell the driving snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds HURON, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Morning storm, %combs of light Last Line: Liquid, %alive...Alive Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing I HEARD THE LAKE CHEEPING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To break through the shell Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ice; Lakes; Nature I OFFER YOU FOUR THINGS, by ROSELLE ANGWIN Poem Source Last Line: To grow your lotus Subject(s): Lakes; Riddles ICE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one this far south chances ice Last Line: And the lottery began. Subject(s): Drowning; Fear; Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds 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 ILLUMINATIONS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard of one man of atonement Last Line: Of a word no longer spoken by men: vouchsafe Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature IN MY PERGOLA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the blue-robed, sleeping lake Last Line: With every sun-kissed flower a smile! Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Lakes; Life; Paradise; Pools; Ponds IN THE PAST, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lies a somnolent lake Last Line: That boatman am I. Subject(s): Lakes; Past; Solitude; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness INSIDE THE SAPPHIRE, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Ship plowing through the blue-fire dawn Last Line: Keep up the good work.' Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing JAMAICA POND AT NIGHT, by MARY A. FLYNN Poem Source First Line: Oak leaves %whisper thy message Subject(s): Lakes JANUARY IN THE TREMEZZINA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day by day / as if in may Last Line: In a sweet retreat on the larian lake? Subject(s): Alps; January; Lakes; Mountains; Peace; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain) JAZZ PIECE: STILL LIFE AND DREAM TICKING, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Sea's quaking tinfoil, humm and whistle Last Line: Where the first mate suggested Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing JULIE [OR, LETTER TO JULIE], by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Sooty from work last night Last Line: So lost or so in love %before Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing KATE KEARNEY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o, should you e'er meet with kate kearney" Last Line: For fatal's the breath of kate kearney! Subject(s): "killarney (lakes), Ireland; KATE KEARNY, by SADY MORGAN Poem Text First Line: Oh! Did you ne'er hear of kate kearney? Last Line: Must die by the breath of kate kearney. Subject(s): Killarney (lakes), Ireland KEEP MOVING, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: It's like a morgue in the soo locks at 3 am Last Line: My footsteps inside, countering %the river's flow Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing KENOZA LAKE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As adam did in paradise Last Line: Who walked on galilee! Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds KITTY OF KILLARNEY, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the lakes of killarney Last Line: "achushla, why are you so mean?" Subject(s): Killarney (lakes), Ireland LAKE, by LOUIS O. COXE Poem Source First Line: The light that labored to an early fall Last Line: Around them, perfect still until the last Subject(s): Lakes LAKE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Better disguised than the leaf insect Last Line: Battering it to death with sticks and stones! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Lakes LAKE, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We won't return. Like seeds, awkward as auks Last Line: Twelve heretics condemned in secret trials, %a noblewoman singing to herself. Subject(s): Canoes And Canoeing; Lakes; Poetry And Poets; Sailors And Sailing; Tourists; Travel; Water LAKE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between arid mountains Subject(s): Disasters; Lakes; Shipwrecks; Water; Pools; Ponds LAKE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Between arid mountains Last Line: And an infinite shipwreck Subject(s): Disasters; Lakes; Shipwrecks; Water LAKE COMO IN AUTUMN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From como's curving base of blue Last Line: The sun will bring the spring again. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Lakes; Seasons; Fall; Pools; Ponds LAKE DANOM, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: Night, dimming the flame beyond the hill Last Line: And celebrate your harvest with hope Subject(s): Lakes LAKE EFFECT, by LOUIS MCKEE Poem Source First Line: You want for a moment to piss Last Line: What I need, I know now, is behind me. %in the morning I am going home Subject(s): Lakes; Learning LAKE LOUISE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that when the master jeweler Last Line: As if a finger on their lips were laid! Subject(s): Lakes; Peace; Seashore; Silence; Pools; Ponds; Beach; Coast; Shore LAKE LOUISE, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Only divinity, enrapt, could mould Last Line: The lonely lovliness of lake louise. Subject(s): Lakes; Travel; Pools; Ponds; Journeys; Trips LAKE MISTS (COMPOSED NEAR LAKE WINNIPISEOGEE), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I gazed on the prospect enchanted Last Line: Thus sternly divorced from her soul! Subject(s): Lakes; Mist; Pools; Ponds LAKE MOODS, by NELLIE HURLBURT WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: I think the way I like you best Last Line: And kiss their lips with whispers and moans. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds LAKE NIPIGON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High-shouldered and ruddy and sturdy Last Line: In silence watch sadly the white man. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Pools; Ponds LAKE SUPERIOR, by SAMUEL GRISWOLD GOODRICH Poem Text First Line: Father of lakes!' thy waters bend Last Line: Deems as a bubble all your waves! Alternate Author Name(s): Parley, Peter Subject(s): Great Lakes LAKE SUPERIOR, by LORINE NIEDECKER Poem Source First Line: In every part of every living thing Last Line: We watched a gopher there Subject(s): Great Lakes LAKE WABAN, by LOUISE MANNING HODGKINS Poem Text First Line: Lake of grey at dawning day Last Line: Peaceful, happy dreaming. Subject(s): Contentment; Lakes; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Pools; Ponds LAKE WINNIPISEOGEE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day the river of life flowed o'er Last Line: The cloistered darling of her heart. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds LAKE YI, by P'EI TI Poem Source First Line: Such immense emptiness, the lake's without limit Last Line: To green mountains, white curling clouds Subject(s): Lakes; Zen Buddhism LAKESIDE PAVILION, by P'EI TI Poem Source First Line: From the window a rippling of waves Last Line: Everywhere hibiscus begin to open Subject(s): Camping; Guests; Lakes; Zen Buddhism LANCES, by CHARLES TRUEMAN LANHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have known a little pool of silent water Last Line: Lances in its heart that were not thrown. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanham, C. T. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds LANDING, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Cold wind and cloud tatters Last Line: Treating the whole thing %as a joke Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing LANDSCAPE WITH A LAKE, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Over & over you've returned all summer, Last Line: Tell the truth. Don't leave me. Subject(s): Lakes; Summer LAUGH, CLOWNS, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Silver paint all over us, costumed Last Line: Is where laughing comes very close %to crying Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing LAUGHING AT MYSELF FOR LAZING AROUND AT WEST LAKE, by YUAN MEI Poem Source First Line: It takes a lot of bamboo strips to make a little sail Last Line: I stopped off first down in the country, to grab my good old friends Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-ts'ai Subject(s): Lakes; Sailors And Sailing; Travel; Zen Buddhism LAVENDER POND, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never a swallow wets his wing Last Line: In lavender pond by london city. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds LEARNING SILENCE, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Steam hisses up and down the loading docks Last Line: Bite your tongue. It's the only thing to do.' Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing LEARNING TO SPEAK CHINESE WITH AN IRISH ACCENT, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: You're sitting with shirley on a forward Last Line: Who deals in dirty pictures Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing LEBLANC ESTATES, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Goodbye lines of pinkish phosphor Last Line: Of his father's farm Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing LESSON OF THE DIVING BOARD, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: While looking for the way %to fail Last Line: While reaching for the joy %of flight %we find it Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing LIFE AT THE LAKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The green below and the blue Last Line: The blue above and the green below. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Summer; Pools; Ponds LIFEBOAT, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: All the waves %were up and walking Last Line: We must be good to each other Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing LIFEJACKETS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Tied into their chilly embrace Last Line: Those jackets %that never dried through Subject(s): Drowning; Lakes; Lifeguards; Water LITTLE LAC GRENIER (GREN-YAY), by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: Little [leetle] lac grenier, she's all alone Last Line: For visit you now -- leetle lac grenier! Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds LITTLE LOUGH, by JOHN HEWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There in a bare place, in among the rocks Last Line: My pointing finger showing it not lost %but sheltered only from the ruffling wind Subject(s): Lakes LIVING AS A RECLUSE ON THE LAKE, by LIN HO-CHING Poem Source First Line: Lakewater %comes into the yard Last Line: In a distant, %blue dream? Subject(s): Lakes; Zen Buddhism LOCH FIODIAG, by ANGELA GORDON Poem Text First Line: Ageless shadowy hills enfold it Last Line: Time forgets to awake from sleep. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Sleep; Pools; Ponds LOCH TORRIDON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dawn of night more fair than morning rose Last Line: But came on us hard out of heaven, and alive with the soul of the sea. Subject(s): Dawn; Lakes; Night; Stars; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime LOCH-LONG, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blue was the loch, the clouds were gone Last Line: And her -- the lady of the glen! Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds LOOKOUT, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Sparks of light at night along the channel Last Line: We have no better way to go Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing LOST, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Take calendar and check of one Last Line: And things are handed back and forth Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing LOST, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Desolate and lone Last Line: And the harbor's eyes. Subject(s): Boats; Great Lakes LOVERS AT THE LAKE SIDE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And you brought him home? I did, ay ronald, it rested with me Last Line: Laura! But give me my troth kiss again.' 'and give me my ring.' Subject(s): Hope; Kisses; Lakes; Life; Love; Optimism; Pools; Ponds MANDALA, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: I have an island Last Line: With new eyes is known Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing MARCH DAYS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world to-day is a nun in gray Last Line: And april airs be here! Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Lakes; March (month); Spring; Nightmares; World; Pools; Ponds MARYLAND MUD, by CAROLINE M. LORD Poem Text First Line: In rapture and despair Last Line: To feel the color of a muddy pool. Subject(s): Lakes; Maryland; Pools; Ponds MAURINE: PART 3, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One golden twelfth part of a checkered year Last Line: That only he who watched with sorrow knows. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Lakes; Love; Rowing; Women; Nightmares; Pools; Ponds MAXINE, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Sleeping on deck all night, moon Last Line: Dreamt of you last night, empress, %your face, your kindness Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing MAY: THE POND'S FULL, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: May and the pond's full of water Last Line: It's just us pond critters here! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Lakes; Zen Buddhism METAPHYSICS AT LAKE OSWEGO, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn like never before Last Line: You neither let go nor withhold. Subject(s): Dawn; Lakes; Oregon; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds MICHIGAN SUMMER, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO Poem Text First Line: By sweat and hunger, stealth and guile Last Line: Will find it easy now to die. Subject(s): Lakes; Michigan; Nature; Parks; Summer; Pools; Ponds MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN AT A POND, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first of june, grasses already tall Last Line: Is a response. I swim across the ring of it Subject(s): Lakes; Women; Pools; Ponds MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN AT A POND, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The first of june, grasses already tall Last Line: Is a response. I swim across the ring of it Subject(s): Lakes; Women MIRROR LAKE, by FLORENCE MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: What do the tourists say? I asked our guide Last Line: I held my breath, lest I might break the spell. Subject(s): Lakes; Tourists; Pools; Ponds MONAD, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: My binoculars stab out Last Line: In the soft, in the hard things of the world Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing MOORED ON FALL RIVER, by KUAN HSIU Poem Source First Line: Banks like late tung-t'ing, but Last Line: The fisherman's %nightmare Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Lakes; Rivers; Zen Buddhism MOORING ON AN AUTUMN NIGHT AT DAN LAKE, by DUAN SHUQING Poem Source First Line: Autumn waters vast and vague, belted by white duckgrass Last Line: I hear the sound of song, but see no one Subject(s): Lakes; Solitude MOTOWN, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Nosing toward detroit the factories Last Line: Grey and heavy %motown Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing MOUNTAIN POOL, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poured by a hundred rills Last Line: In this water, clear and cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Drowning; Lakes; Water; Pools; Ponds MOUNTAIN STREAM, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: All beats of action Last Line: The movies on television Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing MUCK LAKE, by HARLAN J. LEACH Poem Text First Line: It's called galatia though few acres now Last Line: And leave the lake to muskrat, coot, and plover. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds MUSIC, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Sea below %dull slate blue Last Line: The infinite %made visible Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing MUSINGS ON A COOL RETREAT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a little hidden pool Last Line: The woolworth building, in the basement! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Lakes; Mountains; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain) MY GRANDSON AT GREEN LAKE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Shane gabriel diamond, just two Last Line: And demeter, bringing bread and light Subject(s): Boys; Grandchildren; Lakes MY LADY BY THE LAKE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is the lake within the lake that drowns Last Line: Whatever we cast in, it will accept, %and in such lakes within the lake we drown Subject(s): Lakes NEED WOMAN, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Return from chicago %shaded by the pull Last Line: Not much longer %at this Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing NEW LOVE'S CHANNELS, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: We are three in the pilot house Last Line: Into new love's channels? Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing NIGHT HYMNS ON LAKE NEPIGON, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the midnight, where the dark mainland and island Last Line: Ringing like cymbals. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Soul; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime NIGHT WATCH, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Big wind from the north Last Line: Fall is coming, cold and beautiful Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing NOCTURNE IN A DESERTED BRICKYARD, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stuff of the moon Last Line: Make a wide dreaming pansy of an old pond in the night. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds NORTHERN MINNESOTA, by MONTA W. KIRKCONNELL Poem Text First Line: Land of lakes, where pines stand tall Last Line: For the northland winter sport! Subject(s): Lakes; Minnesota; Sports; Pools; Ponds NOSTALGIA OF THE LAKEFRONTS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cities burn behind us; the lake glitters Subject(s): Lakes; Nostalgia; Pools; Ponds NOSTALGIA OF THE LAKEFRONTS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cities burn behind us; the lake glitters Last Line: Nostalgia comes with the smell of rain, you know Subject(s): Lakes; Nostalgia O'DONOHUE'S MISTRESS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the fair months that round the sun Last Line: Dear love, I'll die for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Killarney (lakes), Ireland OLD LAKE AGASSIZ, by ROBERT KING Poem Source First Line: We knew this valley was an ice-age lake Last Line: With small whirlpools of milky light Subject(s): Agassiz, Mount, New Hampshire; Lakes; Mountains; Travel; Valleys ON A LAKE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet in the rushes Last Line: The life of the lake. Subject(s): Birds; Lakes; Nightingales; Water; Pools; Ponds ON COMO, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rainless darkness drew o'er the lake Last Line: Where on to the alps the muteness passed. Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Nature; Pools; Ponds ON ESTHEWAITE WATER, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O'er esthewaite's lake, serene and still Last Line: The lovely visions of repose! Subject(s): Lakes ON LAKE PEND OREILLE, by RICHARD SHELTON Poem Source First Line: All day the wind has made love Last Line: The aristocracy of leaves %will begin to let go Subject(s): Lakes ON LAKE SUPERIOR, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: What returns us to these shores, %the promise of fish, something silver Last Line: My throat and try to make a song %from the long ago row of notes Subject(s): Lakes ON THE AFTERDECK (1 A. M.), by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Energy of the universe %in these patterns Last Line: Their brains out %in the name of freedom Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing ON THE LAKE, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: The waters with their phosphorescence blue Last Line: With petals of pure light from burning flowers Subject(s): Flowers; Lakes; Nature; Roses ON THE LAKE RETURNING LATE, by LIN HO-CHING Poem Source First Line: Lying back, %bulwark for a pillow Last Line: Chickens and dogs %distantly squabble Subject(s): Lakes; Zen Buddhism OSWEGO LAKE, by MARGARET BRADSHAW Poem Text First Line: God's mirror of the mountains Last Line: Whose earth with heaven compares. Subject(s): Creation; Lakes; Pools; Ponds OTHERWISE EMPTY PUBLIC POOL (1965), by DEZSO TANDORI Poem Source First Line: As if we were at an empty pool Last Line: Among other things Subject(s): Diving And Divers; Lakes; Sports; Swimming; Water OUT ON THE LAKE RETURNING LATE, by LIN HO-CHING Poem Source First Line: Pillowed on the bulwark Last Line: Chickens and dogs %stir up a racket Subject(s): Lakes; Travel; Zen Buddhism OZARK ODES: LAKE RETURN, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why I come here: need for a bottom, something to refer to Last Line: Where all things visible and invisible commence to swarm Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Lakes P IS FOR POOL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: I know a deep and lonely pool - that's where Last Line: Clasped to the rugged breast of that black nurse. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds PAINTING IN ENCLOSED SPACES', by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: There should be a manual on that Last Line: Some loose piece of metal, and I'm seeing birds %fly up everywhere Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing PASSING TIME ON STEAMBOATS: LESSON #2, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: What do you do with all that time, they ask Last Line: Got to keep busy, don't they? Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing PASSING UNDER - PASSING OVER, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Head out of scuttle hatch Last Line: And the high organ music %of their humming Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing PAVANE, by ELEANOR ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Beside the amber pools of sleep Last Line: The water ripples gold. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Lakes; Pools; Ponds PECKING ORDER, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Wires running with sharks' tooth crystal Last Line: Harvey will only pick on him Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing PHILOSOPHER'S OVERTURE, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: We have been working yuri geller since Last Line: Somebody's going to get fired Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing PIXIES AT THE POOL, by RICHARD POMFRET Poem Text First Line: Look below into the pool's Last Line: And flee at dawn's first light. Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Stars; Water; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime POEMS WRITTEN IN NORWAY IN 1899: 3. THE LAKE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nevermore sail or oar Last Line: To some darker shore to-morrow. Subject(s): Lakes; Norway; Pools; Ponds POND, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a round pond, and a pretty pond too Subject(s): Lakes POND, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bright clouds of may Last Line: Still the may falls Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Lakes POND, by ANTHONY THWAITE Poem Source First Line: With nets and kitchen sieves they raid the pond Last Line: Absorbed - as if creation's prodigal act %shrank to this empty jam jar in the end Subject(s): Lakes POND IN THE LAKE, by HANS FAVEREY Poem Source First Line: The pond lies in the middle of the lake Last Line: Repeated the message, at which he %understood, dying just like that Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Lakes PONDS, IN LOVE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One was always going when the other was coming back Last Line: Of events one sustains incomprehensible feelings Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Lakes; Love PONDSIDE, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've finished a pavillon Last Line: To make waves on the pond Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Lakes; Zen Buddhism POOL, by ALICE (HENDERSON) CORBIN Poem Source First Line: Do you remember the dark pool at nimes Subject(s): Lakes POOL, by MARTIN EDWARDS Poem Source First Line: Nights when the moon was sunk without trace Last Line: Lapping at a nest's edge Subject(s): Lakes POOL, by THOMAS WHITBREAD Poem Source First Line: This is a pool which bears deep looking into Last Line: I am midway somewhere. Where, I do not know Subject(s): Lakes POPEYE RECOILS, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: To each man his own cure, have it how you will Last Line: Chief, it's in the dreams. Your body is your dreams.' Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing PRESENTIMENT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like a citadel flag on far off heights Last Line: -absolutely alone %in the great storm Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing PRIVATE GROUND, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First frost, and I walk among the rose-fruit, the marble toes Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds PROBLEMS OF MERGING, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Sea cracking off the iron hull like Last Line: He signs them, 'nick of the clarke.' Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing PROJECT, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Stringing christmas tree lights Last Line: Guess who gets the job? Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing QUATRAIN ON THE POOL BEHIND THE DISTRICT OFFICE IN QI-AN, by DU MU Poem Source First Line: Water chestnuts pierce floating algae Last Line: Bathing their clothes of red Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Lakes QUESTIONS [OR, QUESTION], by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Awake with sun in eyes Last Line: What his laugh means Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing QUICKLY, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Unloading grain in buffalo at pillsbury elevator Last Line: Of beautiful things that are no more Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing QUIET MAN, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: When symbols are calm Last Line: Only as the bosun who knows Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing REACHING, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Boats go by exchanging signals Last Line: To the sea's toss and froth %its gentle tongues Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing RED SWAN, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Purple necks and green, fat drakes whiter than easter Last Line: To burn for a moment in the shape of a swan. Subject(s): Birds; Curiosities & Wonders; Lakes; Rumors; Enigmas; Oddities; Pools; Ponds RETURNING TO MORGAN'S WOOD, by STEVEN BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: The road to morgan's pond hovers Last Line: I waited for the fracturing to stop Subject(s): Forests; Lakes RIVER AND SEA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We stood by the river that swept Last Line: "to those who have looked on the sea." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Lakes; Rivers; Sea; Pools; Ponds; Ocean ROBERT LOWELL ON DAMARISCOTTA LAKE, by GARY LEISING Poem Source First Line: Hold the stone-filled sack open, he counted to three Last Line: Dreading her and sunday's long-winded sermon Subject(s): Death; Lakes; Lowell, Robert (1917-1977); Mankind SALTON SEA, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD Poem Text First Line: O glittering, heartless, fearful sea Last Line: Have forced a gate to paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Ben Subject(s): Lakes; Salton Sea, California; Pools; Ponds SAN DIEGO, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY Poem Source First Line: In the pool a girl of thirteen Last Line: Sleek and silver, trailing a snarl through the blue, %plunges down Subject(s): Children; Lakes SEARCH FOR PERFECTION, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Wake up call %new man in the room Last Line: Quiet out here, pure Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing SEDGE SONGS: 3, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angry sunset sky Last Line: Thy long tresses fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Grief; Lakes; Longing; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Pools; Ponds SEPTEMBER, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Today on chazy lake, a steely gray effluvium spreads Last Line: I slap the two flies between my note pages to show a %fisherman I know Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Rivers; Travel SHADOWS AND STARS, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Pulling out of conneaut tonight Last Line: The money scattered up and down the bar Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing SHEARING FORCE, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Pitching horribly and driven Last Line: Will the plates hold? Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing SHOVELIN' HARD, FEELIN' GOOD, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Are we going to wash down in the rivers?' Last Line: He's showing us his land Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing SINKING, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: The sunset was the big slow billowing kin Last Line: Last thing I hear before sleep takes me down Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing SKY DIVER, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Up and to jump - %count! Last Line: Ask %the sky %for its gifts Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing SNAPPING TURTLE, by JEFF OAKS Poem Source First Line: A shape was crawling through the pipe Last Line: That none of us was ever safe, %no matter what she did Subject(s): Child Molesting; Lakes; Turtles SONG: 1, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Text First Line: Dip your hands in the mountain water Last Line: Like blue in the pool that makes it fair! Subject(s): Hands; Lakes; Mountains; Singing & Singers; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Songs SONGS BY THE LAKE: 1, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the sky the sun is falling Last Line: Gleams the mirrored evening star. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Grief; Lakes; Sorrow; Sadness; Pools; Ponds SONGS BY THE LAKE: 4, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset dull and drear Last Line: Flutters in the storm. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds SONGS BY THE LAKE: 5, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the lake as it reposes Last Line: Like an ecstasy of prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds SONGS FOR TWO SEASONS: 2. RED POND, by CAROL FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How cool it lies. It only speaks Last Line: And traces of red mud Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds SONGS FOR TWO SEASONS: 2. RED POND, by CAROL FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How cool it lies. It only speaks Last Line: Stars because of the beautiful surface %and traces of red mud Subject(s): Lakes SONNET: THE LAKE AND STAR, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain lake, o'ershadow'd by the hills Subject(s): Lakes; Love; Pools; Ponds SOUNDING, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Hypnosis of the whitecaps' eyes Last Line: Up when they go click Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing SOUTH HILLOCK, by P'EI TI Poem Source First Line: A lone boat moors leeward Last Line: So distant, so far, he can hardly remember Subject(s): Lakes; Zen Buddhism SPEEDBOAT ON LEWIS AND CLARK LAKE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: We cannot hear each other speak Last Line: The missouri intent on freeing herself back to river Subject(s): Boats; Lakes SPELL OF THE POOL, by JR. LOUIS BURTON CRANE Poem Source First Line: There's a cyrstal-arrowed riffle at the turning of the Subject(s): Lakes; Nature SPRING POOLS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These pools that, though in forests, still reflect Last Line: From snow that melted only yesterday Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Lakes; Spring; Pools; Ponds SPRING POOLS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These pools that, though in forests, still reflect Last Line: These flowery waters and these watery flowers %from snow that melted only yesterday Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Lakes; Spring STARS, by NAN ROADS Poem Text First Line: A sheet of blue white Last Line: In the arms of the night. Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Stars; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime STILL WATERS, by MARY RAY KING Poem Text First Line: My eyes have never seen / enough of emerald Last Line: Of a mind that will not sleep. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds STOPPING FOR GAS NEAR CHEAT LAKE, by CATE MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trees bent unnatural by wind Subject(s): Gasoline; Lakes; Pools; Ponds STOPPING FOR GAS NEAR CHEAT LAKE, by CATE MARVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Trees bent unnatural by wind Last Line: Tell me where I can find the bastard who named this lake Subject(s): Gasoline; Lakes STORM ON LAKE ASQUAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud, like that the old-time hebrew saw Last Line: Spent broken clouds the rainbow's angel spanned. Subject(s): Asquam, Lake; Lakes; Storms; Pools; Ponds STORY I JUST READ, by ROBIN REAGLER Poem Source First Line: The lake laps at the ferry. Hear the tattoo: footsteps pacing Last Line: It weren't for these bodies, we would have been better friends Subject(s): Lakes; Story-telling STRING OF PEARLS, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: The night - wet and gloomy, musical Last Line: Midnight on deck. First snow arrives Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing SUMMER, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At ox bow beach, the august sun a rake Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds SUNSET ACROSS THE LAKE, by AUGUSTA M. BARNEY Poem Text First Line: I sit and watch the sun go down Last Line: And I catch a glimpse of it. Subject(s): Evening; Heaven; Lakes; Sunset; Twilight; Paradise; Pools; Ponds SUNSET ON REELFOOT LAKE, by DAN KROLL Poem Text First Line: On reelfoot lake, at close of day Last Line: When the lonely waters have gone to rest. Subject(s): Evening; Lakes; Sunset; Twilight; Pools; Ponds SURFACING, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Whose name is on your lips when you swim Last Line: Face says it doesn't matter Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing SUSPENDED, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Cable in hand %walking the boat in the morning Last Line: The boat's unreality suspended Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing SWIMMER, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I jumped from the bow of the ocean liner I had three things in Last Line: His own life, the man who is an obvious liar Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Swimming; Water SWIMMING, by SARAH ARVIO Poem Source First Line: Our relation to you is the same as Last Line: And you, my dear... Here his words drifted off Subject(s): Lakes; Life; Swimming TAKE 'ER DOWN ONE!', by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Bitter cold on the loading dock Last Line: As we shift them Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing THE CASCADE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the mountain gray Last Line: Has lasted a thousand years. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lakes; Life; Pools; Ponds THE CRY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you not hear her crying Last Line: To find her before I die! Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; God; Grass; Lakes; Lilies; Woods; Pools; Ponds THE DAIMYO'S POND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The swallows come on swift and daring wings Last Line: Who knows that incantation, and will tell? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Lakes; Japanese; Pools; Ponds THE DRIED MILLPOND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old broadbridge pond, once on a time so deep Last Line: Nor any pleasure of the past abides. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Lakes; Landscape; English; Pools; Ponds THE ELFIN VALLEY, by MARY WEBB Poem Text First Line: By this low rock pool, dark and sweet Last Line: Has laid a spell of gold. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Summer; Pools; Ponds THE ENCHANTED LAKE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found a dark enchanted lake Last Line: Save that she looked with laura's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Lakes; Nymphs; Pools; Ponds THE ESCAPE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dreadful city's roar Last Line: Far from these clattering stones. Subject(s): Bones; Cities; Escapes; Lakes; Trees; Urban Life; Fugitives; Pools; Ponds THE FOREST POOL, by GRACE BLAINE Poem Text First Line: In a remote, green recess of the forest Last Line: Of nature's cup, the forest pool. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE FOREST POOL, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lost amid gloom and solitude Last Line: Floats corpse-like in a pool of tears Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE FOUR LAKES OF MADISON, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four limpid lakes, four naiades Last Line: Bathed in a golden atmosphere! Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE FRIARY AT BLOSSOM, PROLOGUE & INSTRUCTIONS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pond lilies are like little executions Last Line: — 1967 Subject(s): Animals; Politics & Government; Horses; Lakes; Prisons & Prisoners; Survival; Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542); Pools; Ponds; Convicts THE GLASS OF TIME, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a lake high up among the hills Last Line: From peace to vaster peace. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE GRAVE AT GLIMMERGLASS, by CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O haunted lake, from out whose silver fountains Last Line: And raises thee to long-enduring fame. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE HAUNTED LAKE: THE IRISH MINSTREL'S LEGEND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose up the young moon; back she flung Last Line: Mid these northern halls, to the meed of fame. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Lakes; Legends, Irish; Pools; Ponds THE HORIZON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale trees on the horizon grow Last Line: So it goes. So it always will! Subject(s): Lakes; Silence; Trees; Wharves; Pools; Ponds; Piers THE KILLARNEY SNAKE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is the time come? Is it to-morrow yet? Last Line: Is it not come? Is it to-morrow yet? Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Animals; Killarney (lakes), Ireland; Legends, Irish; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE LAKE, by HELEN BIRCH-BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: Moonlight on the lake Last Line: That was her hair? Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus ever drawn toward far shores uncharted Last Line: "hereby they once did love!" Subject(s): Lakes; Time; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Must we for ever to some distant clime Last Line: "here, two fond lovers strayed." Subject(s): Lakes; Time; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a lonely woodland lake Last Line: And keep them one -- is mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE (VERSION 1), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In youth's spring it was my lot Last Line: An eden of that dim lake. Subject(s): Lakes; Youth; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE (VERSION 2), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In spring of youth it was my lot Last Line: An eden of that dim lake. Subject(s): Lakes; Youth; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE BOATS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In an old print Last Line: They are longing for the spring! Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE IN CENTRAL PARK, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It should have a woman's name Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE IN VERMONT, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lake once lay, where the thunder clouds sail Last Line: And where the flower smiles is the serpent of death. Subject(s): Lakes; Vermont; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness THE LAKE OF THE FALLEN MOON, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the thundering of water fills Last Line: Driving beneath the peaks from grass to grass. Subject(s): Lakes; Moon; Waterfalls; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE ON THE MOUNTAIN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eastern sky of azure hue Last Line: From out the mountain lake. Subject(s): Lakes; Mountains; Trees; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE LAKESIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows round the inland sea Last Line: Behind thy smiling face! Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE LAST MAN; A LAKE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lake Last Line: Is a river curled and asleep like a snake. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE LILY-POOL AND THE COW, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What sees our mailie in the lily-pool Last Line: "from off this most sufficient, absolute lily-pool!" Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Cows; Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE MIRROR OF DIANA, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She floats into the quiet skies Last Line: Elusive in the flux of things. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Italy; Lakes; Italians; Pools; Ponds THE MOUNTAIN AND THE LAKE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a mountain thrilling to the stars Last Line: Alas! Poor little lake! Alas! Poor me! Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE NYMPH, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: The pool in the forest drinks her in, mirrors her, laughs with her Last Line: Pool. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Lakes; Nymphs; Water; Showers & Showering; Pools; Ponds THE OLD MILL-POND, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is evening, quiet evening Last Line: Far from me you're all to-night. Subject(s): Lakes; Memory; Youth; Pools; Ponds THE PASTURE POND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the pasture pond alone Last Line: Their solitary pasture-pond. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Lakes; Landscape; English; Pools; Ponds THE POND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time a certain man was found Last Line: You change the name but realize the fate. Subject(s): Lakes; Waves; Pools; Ponds THE POND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: So innocent, so quiet - yet Last Line: Is that dead woman's upturned face. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Drowning; Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE POND, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snapping turtles in the pond eat bass, sunfish Last Line: And the steel hook wrenched straight as a pin. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Turtles; Pools; Ponds; Tortoises THE POND, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is, upon my homeward walk, a place Last Line: Like some tall, graceful plant, up-springing there. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE POOL, by EDWARD DOWDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wood obscure in this man's haunt of love Last Line: The brink, nor sheds a tear now, is his wraith. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE POOL, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the pool that I see in my dreams, dea love Last Line: In the pool that I see in my dreams. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE POOL, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come with me, follow me, swift as a moth Last Line: Safe as a blind shell under the sea. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE POOL, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What has fallen into my heart Last Line: Through night's bars.' Subject(s): Hearts; Lakes; Night; Stars; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime THE SHADED POOL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A laughing knot of village maids Last Line: And laura's are the lips I sing. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Country Life; Lakes; Women; Showers & Showering; Pools; Ponds THE SUMMER POOL, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a singing in the summer air Last Line: Fall melting on the pool in rings of light! Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE SWEETWATER CAVERNS, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Curious to see caverns Subject(s): Lakes; Caves; Youth; Aging; Disappointment; Pools; Ponds; Caverns THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 6, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The minute fingers of the imperceptible air Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE THOUSAND ISLANDS, FR. THE ST. LAWRENCE AND THE SAGUENAY, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bark leaps love-fraught from the land; the sea Last Line: Ploughing, like a huge serpent from its ambuscade. Subject(s): Great Lakes; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; St. Lawrence River; Thousand Islands THE UNNAMED LAKE, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It sleeps among the thousand hills Last Line: We left without a name. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE WINTER LAKES, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in a world of death, far to the northward lying Last Line: Death and hate on the rocks, as sandward and landward it roars. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds THE WRECK ON LOCH MCGARRY, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you should search all scotland round Last Line: May just help you to begin it. Subject(s): Accidents; Disasters; Epiphany; Ignorance; Lakes; Scotland; Shipwrecks; Soul; Virtue; Twelfth Night; Dullness; Stupdity; Pools; Ponds THERE WAS A FROG SWUM IN THE LAKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: If any do it is not I Subject(s): Animals;frogs;lakes; Pools;ponds THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 6, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The minute fingers of the imperceptible air Last Line: And hand in vibrating hand walk back the way we came Subject(s): Lakes THREE VARIATIONS ON ELEGIAC THEMES: I: 1821, by DON BOGEN Poem Source First Line: By the lakeside where %water batters the flat Last Line: Move yet hold what %pushed them in their shapes Subject(s): Lakes; Water TIME VOYAGE, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Just a few things - those quiet sailors Last Line: Boats things like 'mary ellen.' Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing TO A MOUNTAIN LAKE, by MABEL HALL WALTER Poem Text First Line: What mighty force tore these great cliffs Last Line: From deadening walls that, soundless, close me in! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Sarah Mabel Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds TO A NYMPH, by GERALD W. THOMSON Poem Text First Line: Just off our rented steps there is a pool Last Line: Of lawn -- a towel green he thought was grown for him. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds TO MASTER ANDREW LANG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, that are much a fisher in the pool Last Line: Shall any pious hand re-edit us? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Lakes; Dead, The; Pools; Ponds TO PROTECT ITSELF THIS POND, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source Last Line: And the now invisible silence Subject(s): Ice; Lakes; Winter TO THE LAKES, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With purple glow at even Last Line: The haunted hours go by. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds TOM'S BOYS, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: The wind had arrived without any warning Last Line: Come flooding in again Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing TORQUEMADA SLUMBERS, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Tiny wind sock like Last Line: With lectures %on christianity Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing TOURING HOUGHTON, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: I had nodded off in mid-superior Last Line: Look at trees. %who knows?' Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing TRACKS OF THE GULL, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: The wide-eyed slow-voice finn has dragged Last Line: This is a clean boat. They didn't want him here Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing TRANSFORMATIONS, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Snake disobedience! Last Line: When things got hard down south? Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing TRIUMPH OF THE BLUE, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: The glowing red of dawn paints the lake to pale blood Last Line: Distance, the sail of a boat places its sweet note of virginal white Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Paintings And Painters; Water TROPICAL POOL, by MUNA LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I would run swiftly past the blossomy copse Alternate Author Name(s): Munoz Matin, Luis, Mrs.; Munoz Matin, Muna Lee Subject(s): Lakes TRUING IN, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: It's sunrise on the 4-8:00 watch Last Line: True north, true south %inside you again Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing TURNING THE CORNER, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: The four to eight watch allows you to turn Last Line: Heavy throb and just as necessary Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing TWO NUNS BATHING, by MEREDITH COLE Poem Source First Line: Below a shedding birch Last Line: Out in the lake, %weightless, weightless Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Lakes; Nuns TWO POETS BY THE LAKE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lakeshore modulated to a cove Last Line: The balked need urgent in your words, and mine. Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Writing & Writers; Pools; Ponds; Feminism TWO VIEWS OF IAMONIA LAKE, by ROBERT N. PERRY JR. Poem Text First Line: By day, - / a ruffled expanse of transparent coolness Last Line: Consumed by an irresistible passion. Subject(s): Day; Lakes; Night; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime UNDER THE PLANE TREE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under my wall / and plane-tree tall Last Line: The home in which they find repose. Subject(s): Lakes; Plane Trees; Rivers; Sea; Pools; Ponds; Sycamores; Ocean VELOCITY, LOCATION, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: There was such a star sparkle on the river Last Line: Everyone on this boat's named joe.' Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing VIGIL, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: Restless with sore kidneys Last Line: Bite so hard, when it hits %you, it bruises Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing WATER FOWL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mark how the feathered tenants of the flood Last Line: As if they scorned both resting-place and rest! Subject(s): Lakes; Waterfowl; Pools; Ponds WATER LOG, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Lake water waits. %that's %what it does best. And I Last Line: Will understand the loon %laughing back Subject(s): Lakes; Swimming; Water WATERS STILL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Neath my casement window Last Line: To my window sill. Subject(s): Lakes; Water; Pools; Ponds WHAT NARCISSUS GAVE THE LAKE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lake loves what it sees, and what it sees Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Lakes; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Pools; Ponds WHAT NARCISSUS GAVE THE LAKE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lake loves what it sees, and what it sees Last Line: That beautiful and beauty-blinded face Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Lakes; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology) WHAT TO DO WITH A MOUNTAIN LAKE, by DAVID YEZZI Poem Source First Line: We pushed off from the crumbled dam Last Line: Reflected in that seamless span %supporting you and mean Subject(s): Lakes; Mountains WHEN WE WERE YOUNG WE TALKED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The same lakes were bottomless in china Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Lakes; Nature WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, by ALAN MACDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: The snow's coming down pretty thick and Last Line: They got off, or are they still sailing with us?' Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing WINTER POND: LAKE PARAN, by BEN BELITT Poem Source First Line: Lest the ripple deceive us Last Line: And the swimmer arose in his nakedness and called from the opposite shore Variant Title(s): Winter Pond (lake Paran Subject(s): Lakes |
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