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| Searching... Subject: OIL Matches Found: 13 BEFORE WE MOTHERNAKED FALL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Oil Fields; Gold DESERTED DERRICK, by MARY ELIZABETH BRANTLEY Poem Text First Line: Towering high above oil-stained lands Last Line: That cast its rays upon the derrick in an early year. Subject(s): Petroleum; Ruins; Wells; Oil ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY COAL-BIN, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The furnace tolls the knell of falling steam Last Line: To bring my morning coffee to a boil. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Furnaces; Standard Oil Company; Kilns HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY, by HICOK. BOB Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Never before have I so resembled british petroleum Last Line: Or notional, now that oceans are wheezing to a stop? Subject(s): Oil & Gas Companies; Environment; Poetry & Poets; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation OIL FIELDS AT NIGHT, by ANNE SOUTHERNE TARDY Poem Text First Line: The night is dark, but in the east a glow Last Line: Earth yields her buried treasure, sobbing, sobbing. Subject(s): Oil Fields OKLAHOMA, by STELLA B. REDDING Poem Text First Line: Oklahoma, youngest state of the west Last Line: Oklahoma. Subject(s): Greed; Oklahoma; Petroleum; Avarice; Cupidity; Oil PICTURES OF THE SOUTHWEST: OIL, by ELIZABETH KING COWGILL Poem Text First Line: Black smoke hides the sun Last Line: Such a hell as dante saw. Subject(s): Petroleum; West (u.s.); Oil; Southwest; Pacific States PIONEER: THE VIGNETTE OF AN OIL-FIELD, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the wagons have gone by Last Line: With church bells quietly ringing! Subject(s): Oil Fields; Pioneers SUPPRESSING THE EVIDENCE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Alaska oil spill, I edit you out Last Line: I must hold in my mind one small dead otter pup. Subject(s): Alaska; Escapes; Industrial Accidents; Petroleum; Women; Women's Rights; Fugitives; Oil; Feminism THE HANDKERCHIEFS OF KHAIBAR KHAN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poet's Biography First Line: In nishapur did khaibar khan Subject(s): Iran; Petroleum; Persia; Oil THE OIL FIRE, by GEORGE BOND Poem Text First Line: The lightning strikes, a sudden blinding flash Last Line: Is smouldering ruin, shriveled, seared and black. Subject(s): Fire; Oil Fields THE REFINERY, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thirsty and languorous after their long black sleep Subject(s): Oil Fields; Social Commentaries THE TRANSFORMATION OF A TEXAS GIRL, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was a texas maiden, she came of low degree Last Line: Had rested there for ages above a flow of oil? Subject(s): Cowboys; Petroleum; Ranch Life; Texas; West (u.s.); Oil; Southwest; Pacific States |
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