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Subject: MARSHES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHESAPEAKE MARSH, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Willows and willows in two gust-worn rows
Last Line: And leagues of water empty of a ship.
Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


A MARSH MESSAGE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The melancholy marshes brood
Last Line: The young fresh soul that was so fair?
Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Soul; Swamps; Voices; Dead, The; Ocean; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


A SONG, by ALLAN DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The water-thrushes play
Last Line: Shining like a rose.)
Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Singing & Singers; Swamps; Songs; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


A SWAMP TRAGEDY, by I. V.    Poem Text                    
First Line: In andrus swamp, out hastings way
Last Line: Laugh if you will -- not I!
Subject(s): Hastings, England; Swamps; Tragedy; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


BOGLAND; FOR T.P. FLANAGAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have no prairies
Subject(s): Ireland; Swamps; Irish; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


DOWN THE BAYOU, by MARY ASHLEY TOWNSEND    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cypress swamp around me wraps its spell
Last Line: And through the gloom the wild deer shyly gaze.
Alternate Author Name(s): Xariffa
Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


FROG AUTUMN, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer grows old, cold-blooded mother
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


HOW THE FIRE QUEEN CROSSED THE SWAMP, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flood was down in the wilga swamps, three feet over the mud
Last Line: "him through!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry
Subject(s): Animals; Devil; Floods; Horses; Swamps; Trucks & Trucking; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: MARSH SONG - AT SUNSET, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the monstrous shambling sea, / over the caliban sea
Last Line: Baltimore, 1879 - 80.
Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: SUNRISE, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain
Last Line: The day being done.
Subject(s): Holidays; Plants; Sun; Swamps; Trees; Planting; Planters; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: THE MARSHES OF GLYNN, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven
Last Line: On the length and the breadth of the marvellous marshes of glynn.
Variant Title(s): The Marshes Of Glynn
Subject(s): Religion; Swamps; Theology; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


IN A JON BOAT DURING A FLORIDA DAWN, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunlight displaces stars
Last Line: Or the red tick anchored in the pit of your knee.
Subject(s): Boats; Florida; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


IN THE MARSHES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We do not know in the marsh
Last Line: And the waters grey with fear.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Swamps; Wales; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bogs; Fens; Marshes; Welshmen; Welshwomen


MARENGO, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the sump rise the marigolds.
Subject(s): Death; Swamps; Dead, The; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


MARSH MATERNAL, by MARGARET MCGARVEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: What hunted things a marsh can hide
Last Line: When the marsh is clothed in mist.
Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


MARSH MUSIC, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: A thread of sea is sewn in the green land
Last Line: Of the sea's sound -- attenuated clang.
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Sea; Swamps; Ocean; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


MARSHLANDS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thin wet sky, that yellows at the rim
Last Line: Thick, grey and humid, while the marshes sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


RAIN, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All afternoon it rained, then
Subject(s): Rain; Barbed Wire; Swamps; Fathers; Gardens & Gardening; Forests; Life; Bogs; Fens; Marshes; Woods


SECOND SHAMAN SONG, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Squat in swamp shadows.
Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


SOUNDING HARVEY CREEK, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the narrow, splintering, slatted floor of the dock
Last Line: Their bones showing like veins in a tiny leaf?
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Fish & Fishing; Solitude; Swamps; Anglers; Loneliness; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


SUGGESTIONS, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Scent of the wide, wet marshes
Last Line: Like a startled memory.
Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


THE FROG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who am I but the frog -- the frog
Last Line: And grace to his royal whim!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Animals; Courts & Courtiers; Frogs; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


THE HANDSOME SWAMP, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Knows it's a handsome swamp: the alligators
Last Line: Sniffing the air
Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


THE JERSEY MARSHES, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When april rains and the great spring-tide
Last Line: Twice in the day, continuously.
Subject(s): New Jersey; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


THE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP; WRITTEN AT NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They made her a grave, too cold and damp
Last Line: And paddle their white canoe!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): A Ballad
Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


THE MARSH AND THE SEA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The marsh is full of ocean. Proud, serene
Last Line: Down in the blessed deeps of life that you and god are one.
Subject(s): God; Sea; Swamps; Ocean; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


THE MARSH-HOUSE, by JAMES E. RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far out upon the great green sedge it stands
Last Line: Instance of things full merciful as these.
Subject(s): Houses; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


THE MARSHES, by MABEL WARD RUDD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where, through rank thatch, the grasping sea has put
Last Line: To see the last trace of the marshes pass?
Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Native Americans; Swamps; Urban Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


THE MARSHLANDS, by EDWARD NELSON TEALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, the marshlands of new jersey
Last Line: Blowing wind and flowing tide.
Subject(s): New Jersey; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


VAGG HOLLOW, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What do you see in vagg hollow
Last Line: "but I'm not afraid at all!"
Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


WADING IN A MARSH, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing here in this rain-fed marsh
Subject(s): Swamps; Walking; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


WHITE FRINGED-ORCHIS, by CAROLINE HAZARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Low swampy ground, with spagnum moss
Last Line: The candles of the lord.
Subject(s): Earth; Love; Swamps; World; Bogs; Fens; Marshes