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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MISSISSIPPI Matches Found: 54 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTERIMAGES, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: However the image enters Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Jackson, Mississippi; Till, Emmett (1941-1955); Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry ANOTHER LANDSCAPE, by ELLEN DORE WATSON Poem Source First Line: Following the mississippi up the border of wisconsin we see Last Line: A distant plow scrapes at beauty so tomorrow the world can work Variant Title(s): Life Goes O Subject(s): Life; Mississippi BY THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king of rivers has a dolorous shore Last Line: Was startled some long-since battle day. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, de ole plantation landin' Last Line: To de lonesomeness -- dat's all. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): African Americans; Mississippi River; Plantation Life; Rivers; Negroes; American Blacks DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI AT NIGHT, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sowing the waves with a fiery rain Last Line: Jehovah's dread, unutterable name. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 1. EMBARKATION, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dull masses of dense green Last Line: Above the pink explosion of the calyx of the dawn. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 2. HEAT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As if the sun had trodden down the sky Last Line: Whereon the sun hangs motionless, a brassy disc of flame. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 3. FULL MOON, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flinging its arc of silver bubbles, quickly shifts the moon Last Line: Over white lakes of cotton, like moonfields on every side. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 4. THE MOON'S ORCHESTRA, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the moon lights up Last Line: Which show, through gaps and tatters, red stains half hidden away. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 5. THE STEVEDORES, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Frieze of warm bronze that glides with catlike movements Last Line: Far southward where a single chimney stands out aloof in the sky. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 6. NIGHT LANDING, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the whistle's roar has bellowed and shuddered Last Line: A blue-black negro with gleaming teeth waits for his chance to leap. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 7. THE SILENCE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a silence I carry about with me always Last Line: I will curl up in it at last and sleep an endless sleep. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers ELEGY FOR THE NATIVE GUARD, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We leave gulfport at noon; gulls overhead Subject(s): African Americans - Soldiers; American Civil War; Ship Island (mississippi) GOD'S OWN, by MRS. L. J. HOWARD JR. Poem Text First Line: There's wondrous living beauty in all things loved by god Last Line: And his 'biding place, I'm certain, is my mississippi farm. Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Mississippi; Agriculture; Farmers HISTORY OF MISSISSIPPI, by BRYAN MARTIN JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: 1561. Quests end in failure - stitched to the reverse of hemispheres Last Line: 1693. - 1694. - 1695. - 1696 Subject(s): Mississippi HOLDING SHED, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: Somewhere, along the mississippi, outside natchez Last Line: On the river; I walk away, then stop and turn, %the tumult settles, and the field breaks like the se Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Mississippi INCIDENT, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We tell the story every year -- Subject(s): Racism; Gulfport, Mississippi; Klu Klux Khan; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: City of tense and stricken faces Last Line: The graves of the dead, %and the birthing stools of grannies long since fled Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Jackson, Mississippi LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees paint their reflections Last Line: In a little yellow book Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Family Life; Mississippi River; African Americans; Relatives LINES TO THE MISSISSIPPI, by GERTRUDE FRENCH Poem Text First Line: O waters great! What mysteries thy hidden depths conceal! Last Line: For thy sweet sleep that thou alone canst give for ever-more. Subject(s): Mississippi MAP FOR LEAVING, by JILL OSIER Poem Source First Line: I was over you yesterday Last Line: I couldn't tell you Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Geography; Maps; Mississippi River; Mount Rainier; Nature; Rivers; Travel MEN IN WINTER, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Stand out on the ice %over their holes, augers Last Line: The women. Who drive me out %onto the ice Subject(s): Mississippi; Winter MISSISSIPPI, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death surrounds itself with the living Subject(s): Names; African Americans; Racism; Mississippi; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry MISSISSIPPI, by TOM ROBERT SHIELDS Poem Source First Line: Two thousand %three hundred Last Line: Somewhere - deep, deep within Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers MISSISSIPPI ANATOMY, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This land is red, its body is colored of blood Subject(s): Mississippi MISSISSIPPI ANATOMY, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This land is red, its body is colored of blood Last Line: The inscrutable heart Subject(s): Mississippi MISSISSIPPI FEDERATION, by MRS. SHEP LEDBETTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! What music now comes ringing Last Line: For its causes, you stand true. Subject(s): Mississippi MISSISSIPPI MUSKRAT, by RICHARD BRODERICK Poem Source First Line: I like the way he chooses the calm waters Last Line: Shaped head aimed straight at an eddying heart Subject(s): Mississippi; Water MISSISSIPPI RIVER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn morning %these are the ghosts of tears Last Line: And strangle the harpers %of the waterfall Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMPTIES INTO THE GULF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the gulf enters the sea and so forth Last Line: Only here. Only now Subject(s): Mississippi River; Past; Rivers; Seashore; Time MISSISSIPPI SLEIGH RIDE, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: When santa's loading up his sleigh at christmas Last Line: Cause santa loves suburban children most of all Subject(s): Christmas; Mississippi; Santa Claus MISSISSIPPI-MISSOURI, by CHARLES H. TIFFANY Poem Text First Line: In clear cold blue itasca lake, in scores of mountain Last Line: Like swaying drunken harlots in the gulf of mexico. Subject(s): Mississippi; Mississippi River; Missouri; New Orleans; Rivers NEGROES LYNCHED IN MISSISSIPPI, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So always, justice drowsy and hate rising Last Line: Proffering his blood to pleasure antichrist. Subject(s): African Americans; Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Lynching; Mississippi; Murder; Negroes; American Blacks; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ON A HIGHWAY EAST OF SELMA, ALABAMA; JULY 1965, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the sheriff remarked: I had no business being there. He was Last Line: And still he refuses to swallow. Subject(s): African Americans; Mississippi; Prisons & Prisoners; Racism; Selma, Alabama; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry ON THE MISSISSIPPI, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through wild and tangled forests Last Line: A heron flaps away %like silence taking flight Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers PILGRIMAGE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, the mississippi carved Subject(s): Vicksburg, Mississippi; American Civil War RESTLESS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is but my restless self: the sun Last Line: And reaches up his arms to have the moon! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Asia; Autumn; Earth; Ethiopia; Ganges River, India; Mississippi; Seasons; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Fall; World SMALL DEFEATS: THE HEAD START MOTHERS OF HARRISON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: We are here, all of us, despite public, unreal Last Line: Brings us here - we, ourselves, all our learning, our school Subject(s): Mississippi; Mothers SOUTH, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I returned to a stand of pines, / bone-thin phalanx Subject(s): African Americans; Mississippi; Slavery; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs; South (u.s.) SOUTH, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I returned to a stand of pines, %bone-thin phalanx Last Line: In my native land, this place they'll bury me Subject(s): African Americans; Mississippi; Slavery; Southern States SUMMER WORK ON THE SOUTHERN PIPELINE, by ROBERT A. FINK Poem Source First Line: What called them to brookhaven, mississippi, 1966 Last Line: Unable to look away from the slit of sky Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Mississippi; Summer THE DAVENPORT LUNAR ECLIPSE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Overlooking the mississippi Last Line: In between, a life has passed. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Eclipses; Mississippi THE EAGLE OF CORINTH, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did you hear of the fight at corinth Last Line: On the nation's loftiest dome. Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Corinth, Mississippi, Battle Of (1862); Courage; Eagles; United States - History; Valor; Bravery THE LULLABY OF MISSISSIPPI, by K. DEVRISH Poem Text First Line: Since your emigrant tent rested Last Line: "is calling with tears in her eyes?" Subject(s): Mississippi THE MISSISSIPPI, by SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monarch of rivers in the wide domain Last Line: The hymn of universal brotherhood! Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Sara; Hale, Sarah Josepha Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers THE MISSISSIPPI, by FREDERICK OAKES SYLVESTER Poem Text First Line: And do you love my river Last Line: The king of the rivers of earth. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER (DEDICATED TO MISS ELLA F. KENNEDY), by SARA S. BASHEFKIN Poem Text First Line: In the minnesota north woods Last Line: To promote the source of living. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMPTIES INTO THE GULF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the gulf enters the sea and so forth Subject(s): Mississippi River; Past; Rivers; Seashore; Time; Beach; Coast; Shore THE MISSISSIPPI; JULY, 1863, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the silent mississippi, with his saintly soul aflame Last Line: Far to eastward, far to westward, touch the shining ocean sands. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Mississippi; Mississippi River; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; U.s. - History THE RIVER, by FLORIAA WATTS SMYTH Poem Text First Line: Old towns set high above the mississippi Last Line: Is our heritage. We are folded in low hills. Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers THEORIES OF TIME AND SPACE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You can get there from here, though Subject(s): Homecoming; Gulfport, Mississippi TO THE HONOURABLE W. R. SPENCER; FROM BUFFALO, UPON LAKE ERIE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou oft hast told me of the fairy hours Last Line: Have many a mile to journey, ere we meet! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Delaware (river); Homesickness; Lake Erie; Mississippi River; Missouri River; Rivers; Schuylkill River TO THE MISSISSIPPI, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They came from fierce, burnt spain to seek for gold Last Line: Of hot, long listlessness and moody course. Subject(s): Death; Explorers; Gold; Mississippi; Dead, The; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers WHEN THE MISSISSIPPI FLOWED IN INDIANA, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath time's roaring canyon Last Line: The cave by the mississippi %where tom and becky strayed Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers; Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
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