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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LIGHTNING Matches Found: 46 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AUTOPSY AFTER DEATH OF 'LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR', by CATHRYN HANKLA Poem Source First Line: The ranger walked in the open to create Last Line: Example. Christ, another Subject(s): Lightning BARRIERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thunder woke me to the early dark, I lay awake listening Last Line: Even the barrier of a blessing. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Fear; Lightning; Love - Marital; Lightning Rods; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love BELLS IN THE ENDTIME OF GYURMEY TSULTRIM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bowl made from a tobacco-yellow skull Last Line: Something has begun... Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Chaplin, Charlie (1889-1977); Future Life; Lightning; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Lightning Rods BOLT FROM THE BLUE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1. Bolt from the blue Last Line: And debris—is aftermath. Subject(s): Death; Lightning; Pain; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Suffering; Misery DRY GHAZAL, by JENNIFER ATKINSON Poem Source First Line: Dry lightning struck the parched bay tree Last Line: The dry wind turned. It rained. It rains. It's raining Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Weather EDDY-GRAMS: 4. STORM AND TRAVAIL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Trees may crash beneath a cyclone Last Line: When he shall unlock the door. Subject(s): Cyclones; Lightning; Storms; Tragedy; Wind; Lightning Rods EPITAPH, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies john hughes and sarah drew Last Line: For pope has wrote upon their tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Lightning; Man-woman Relationships; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Male-female Relations; Feminism FIRE, by DUANE ACKERSON Poem Source First Line: Once, fire was used to put out water. When a house was drowning Last Line: Lightning bolt that breaks for enough fire to water our gardens Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Fire; Heat; Lightning FLOWERS UNDER THE LIGHTNING, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: The flowers take hold of hands %they fly as the birds are flying Last Line: But cry as the birds are crying Subject(s): Crying; Fear; Grief; Lightning FRANCISCA GLORIOSA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A crown on her head and triumphant, francisca shall / mount to her seat Last Line: "then the world shall unite with her children to hail her, ""francisca the blest!" Subject(s): Disasters; Lightning; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Lightning Rods GULF LIGHTNING, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on a tower in the midst of the stars Last Line: Ah! To be nothing irretrievably! Subject(s): Life; Lightning; Noises; Universe; Lightning Rods HEAT-LIGHTNING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a curious quiet for a space Last Line: "I say -- by my own doing, as I read." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Lightning; Lightning Rods LIFE ON THE LAKES: STORM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: A chill creeps over the waters wide Last Line: The hurt call sounds four! Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Storms; Weather; Lightning Rods LIGHTNING, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere we be stricken blind to certain dreams Last Line: Through following thunder and the driving rain! Subject(s): Lightning; Lightning Rods LIGHTNING, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt the lurch and halt of her heart Last Line: Home, come home, the lightning has made it too plain! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Lightning; Love; Lightning Rods LIGHTNING, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Mad thunder is a seamstress Last Line: But her knot of gold, the sun. Subject(s): Lightning; Sea; Sky; Sun; Thunder; Lightning Rods; Ocean LIGHTNING IS A YELLOW FORK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The appartus of the dark %to ignorance revealed Variant Title(s): Poem: 1173; Poem: 114 Subject(s): Lightning LIGHTNING SPREADS OUT ACROSS THE WATER, by PATRICIA FARGNOLI Poem Source First Line: It was already too late %when the swimmers began Last Line: The vacant imponderable sky Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Lightning; Nature; Sea; Swimming LIGHTNING WHELK, by MICHAEL SOWDER Poem Source First Line: We wnet down to hear what the water said Last Line: This cup, that only a cry of the sea has filled? Subject(s): Lightning; Water PARADISE LIGHT: ZIP ZAP, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lightning stroke Last Line: And debris is aftermath Subject(s): Heaven; Lightning POETIC EPIGRAMS: 9. THE LIGHTNING, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lightning seems a tongue Last Line: That summer has outflung. Subject(s): Lightning; Summer; Lightning Rods POSTSCRIPT; TO MAXIME KUMIN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear max. I call you that because Last Line: "here, it hurts." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Disasters; Kumin, Maxine; Lightning; Pain; Trees; Lightning Rods; Suffering; Misery SHEET LIGHTNING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When on the green the rag-tag game had stopt Last Line: With fear. Joe beat its brain out on the wheel. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Lightning; English; Lightning Rods STORM CLOUDS, by PAULINE PARKER Poem Text First Line: Shadders of de evenin' / air a-tumblin' down Last Line: Mak' de black clouds shoo! Subject(s): Babies; Lightning; Infants; Lightning Rods SWITCHING YARD, by THEODORE KIESSELBACH Poem Source First Line: He applies for a job as a lightning rod and until he sees the length of Last Line: From belt marks that the laces come to drink Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Lightning THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#13): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THUNDER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man counts the seconds between lightning and thunder to Last Line: Smell of solder at the junction of earth and sky. Subject(s): Death; God; Lightning; Religion; Speech; Spirituality; Thunder; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Theology; Oratory; Orators THE BRIDGE (PITTSBURGH), by BENNETT WEAVER Poem Text First Line: Dull thunders troubled the great hills / and moaning lay upon the land Last Line: Gathered and sank within my blood. Subject(s): Lightning; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Rivers; Thunder; Lightning Rods THE GARDEN UNDER LIGHTNING, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the storm that muffles shining night Last Line: And vanishes! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Lightning; Storms; Lightning Rods THE IMPROVISATORE: ALBERT AND EMILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the evening of a summer day Last Line: A downy perfume whispers in the air. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Insanity; Lightning; Love; Nature; Rain; Sleep; Storms; Summer; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Lightning Rods THE JOB, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But, god, it won't come right! It won't come right! Last Line: —from sky lines and wood smoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Creation; Lightning; Rain; Storms; Thought; Thunder; Lightning Rods; Thinking THE OMINOUS TIMES, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Ominous are the times. They seem to be Last Line: And pious lips to pray unto their lord. Subject(s): Lightning; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Lightning Rods; Ocean THE POEMS OF BIG STICK: 2, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sinking like a rock in the sea Last Line: Life and death are dust in space Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Lightning; Buddha; Buddhists; Lightning Rods THE RAIN COMES, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind and rain and lightest snow Last Line: Still she sits unheeding there. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Storms; Water; Lightning Rods THE SCYTHE STRUCK BY LIGHTING, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thick hot haze had choked the valley grounds Last Line: That ripens into blue, nor knows the storm is by. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Lightning; English; Lightning Rods THE STAMPEDE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lightning tossed its tangled boughs Last Line: Lest they should rise again. Subject(s): Cattle; Lightning; Storms; Lightning Rods THE STORM, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The sun sank in a sheer abyss of cloud Last Line: Upon the fallen tree, shout as they play. Subject(s): Lightning; Sea Voyages; Storms; Weather; Wind; Lightning Rods THE SUN OF DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With morning's sun ascending Last Line: As day yields to the night. Subject(s): Day; Light; Lightning; Sun; Weather; Lightning Rods THE THUNDER STORM, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sabbath morn came sweetly on Last Line: In that sad evening hour. Subject(s): Death; Lightning; Sabbath; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Sunday THE THUNDER STORM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Above the heavens are flaming Last Line: I would know that thou art near. Subject(s): Earth; Lightning; Storms; Weather; World; Lightning Rods THE YOUNG MYSTIC, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat together close and warm Last Line: "I saw him strike a match!" Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Lightning; Storms; Youth; Lightning Rods TO LOUIS KOSSUTH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light of our fathers' eyes, and in our own Last Line: Men's heads abased before the muscovite. Subject(s): Kossuth, Louis (1802-1894); Lightning; Praise; Lightning Rods TROPICAL MYTH, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain cast its net over the forest Last Line: That is how fireflies were born Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Weather TWANG: PSALM 81, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: I answered thee in the secret place of thunder Last Line: Dark again. Then, thunder Subject(s): Lightning; Thunder WEST, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: New shoots out of the logging road Last Line: There's time for smoke to rise from the cooking fire %it is ambrosia to look and to see Subject(s): Lightning; Rain; Thunder WHEN HE COMES, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A vision fair - of clouds and sky Last Line: To do him honor there. Subject(s): Earth; Holy Ghost; Lightning; Religion; Soul; World; Holy Spirit; Lightning Rods; Theology WHEN SHE LEFT ME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It missed, first left, then right Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Lightning; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Storms |
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