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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MISSISSIPPI RIVER Matches Found: 25 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 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 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-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 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 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 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 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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