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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between arid mountains
Subject(s): Disasters; Lakes; Shipwrecks; Water; Pools; Ponds


LAKE, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis            
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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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