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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LIGHTHOUSES Matches Found: 28 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LIGHTHOUSE IN MAINE, by DEREK MAHON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It might be anywhere Subject(s): Lighthouses; Hopper, Edward (1882-1967) CALAIS BEACON, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For long before we came upon the coast and the line of the surge Last Line: And know not of your light! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Calais, France; Lighthouses FLANNAN ISLE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though three men dwell on flannan isle Last Line: Who thought on three men dead. Subject(s): Lighthouses I'D LIKE TO BE A LIGHTHOUSE, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With the ships all watching me Subject(s): Imagination; Lighthouses; Sea JUBILATE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "beyond the lighthouse, standing sentinel" Last Line: And I shall have my sweetheart's kiss again Subject(s): Lighthouses LIGHTHOUSE, by MARJORIE WILSON Poem Source First Line: Burning upon some hidden shore Subject(s): Lighthouses LIGHTHOUSE KEEPING, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seas pleat / winds keen Subject(s): Lighthouses MY LIGHTHOUSES, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At westward window of a palace gray Last Line: And find this flow forestalling my desires. %my darlings, do you hear me? Trim the fires! Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Lighthouses NEW ENGLAND LIGHTHOUSE, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source First Line: It's a tower %of stone Last Line: As they pass %through the night Subject(s): Lighthouses; New England ON THE BAY, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This watery vague how vast! This misty globe Last Line: Shows through the gray, itself in grayness lost! Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Harbors; Lighthouses; New York Harbor ON THE LIGHTHOUSE AT ANTIBES, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stormy light of sunset glows and glares Last Line: How man keeps watch o'er man through deadliest night. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Antibes, France; Lighthouses OUT OF THE NIGHT TALKED DRY, by BRIGITTE OLESCHINSKI Poem Source First Line: A couple laths float past, wrung-out milk cartons and Last Line: And the lighthouse beam %turned %around and around Subject(s): Lighthouses; Night ROUND AND ROUND, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lighthouse keeper's world is round Last Line: When, in a calm, the rocks are safe Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Lighthouses SAINT LIGHTHOUSE, by LIONEL BASNEY Poem Source First Line: He lived by the water Last Line: By the outspoken, %an inlet Subject(s): Lighthouses THE HARBOR: 3. ARGUMENT, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lighthouse there, then not Last Line: Higher and higher up the scale Subject(s): Lighthouses THE LIGHT, by MARJORIE A. SCHRIER Poem Text First Line: Firm on a rock the lighthouse stands Last Line: Wherever you choose to roam. Subject(s): Lighthouses; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Ocean THE LIGHT KEEPER, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A night without ships. Foghorns called into walled cloud, and you Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Lighthouses; Death; Life; Dead, The THE LIGHT-KEEPER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brilliant kernel of the night Last Line: Martyr to a salary. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Lighthouses THE LIGHTHOUSE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rocky ledge runs far into the sea Last Line: "be yours to bring man nearer unto man!" Subject(s): Lighthouses THE LIGHTHOUSE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the bosom of the deep Last Line: And scorns to strike his timorous sail. Variant Title(s): Pharos' Loquitur Subject(s): Lighthouses THE LIGHTHOUSE, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under his photographer's shroud Last Line: Uncontradictable truth. Subject(s): Lighthouses THE LIGHTHOUSES; BAKER'S ISLAND, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two pale sisters, all alone Last Line: Should a human heart grow strong. Subject(s): Beverly, Massachusetts; Lighthouses THE NEEDLES' LIGHTHOUSE FROM KEYHAVEN, HAMPSHIRE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The downs and tender-tinted cliffs are lost Last Line: Near these great beacons are instructed well. Subject(s): Lighthouses TO THE LIGHTHOUSE ON MALTA, by ANGEL SAAVEDRA Poem Source First Line: Black night enswathes the mighty world Last Line: Of cordoba's sweet tower! Subject(s): Cordoba, Spain; Lighthouses TO-MORROW, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lighthouse shines across the sea Last Line: The evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Lighthouses; Dead, The UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 34. SKERRYVORE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For love of lovely words, and for the sake Last Line: The name of a strong tower. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Lighthouses; Sea; Ocean WEIRD STUFF THIS, by ELIZABETH BLETSOE Poem Source Last Line: A man could drown in her deceits, her slipperiness Subject(s): Lighthouses; Riddles WILL WE EVER GO TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We see it every day from Last Line: Certain it is really there Subject(s): Lighthouses |
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