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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MARSHES Matches Found: 32 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 |
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