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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: OREGON Matches Found: 40 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN OREGON DAWN, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: On the tide of the morning, the light Last Line: Marched into the day and marched on. Subject(s): Oregon; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States APPRECIATING OREGON, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: To appreciate what oregon has, and is Last Line: Looming like cities in the water Subject(s): Oregon; Poetry And Poets; Travel; United States AUTUMN ON THE UMPQUA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: The sun is peeking o'er the edge Last Line: When autumn comes in oregon! Subject(s): Islands; Oregon; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States BATTLE SONG OF THE OREGON, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The billowy headlands swiftly fly Last Line: The race that rules the wave! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Oregon (ship); Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) BILL'S BEANS; FOR WILLIAM STAFFORD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the leaves, they're long and curling Last Line: And the brevity of bean. Subject(s): Beans; Food & Eating; Oregon; Plantation Life; Trees COUNTING THE WINTER DEAD, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off the oregon coast, thirty-three in storm and sudden Last Line: Voracious and benign, spare us o lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Funerals - At Sea; Oregon; Dead, The; Anglers; Burials At Sea COUPLE OF GEESE OVER PHOENIX, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source Last Line: It's unmistakable: fall is in the air Subject(s): Immigrants; Japanese Americans - Internment; Oregon; Prisons And Prisoners DAWN ON THE WILLAMETTE, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Between the pale blue of the morning sky Last Line: Shakes all the air with passion and desire Subject(s): Dawn; Willamette River, Oregon DRIVING INTO LARAMIE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out here sheer force of sky bearing down Last Line: That god is impressed above all by defiance Subject(s): Death; Driving & Drivers; Oregon; Religion; Dead, The; Theology EDGE LIGHT, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Rock cliffs of florence, storm light of beach and sky Last Line: An arc of edge light, sheaf of memory, %cloud line disappearing Subject(s): Absence; Aviation And Aviators; Oregon; Postage Stamps; Travel EXODUS FOR OREGON, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tale half told and hardly understood Last Line: His dog to love, crept down among the ferns and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Oregon FIRESTARTER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Since this morning he's gone through Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Oregon; Smoke; Women FIRESTARTER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since this morning he's gone through Last Line: And I can't take my eyes from the light Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Oregon; Smoke; Women FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: SIWASHING IT OUT .. IN SISULAW FOREST, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slept under rhododendron Subject(s): Camping; Oregon; Love; Youth; Memory; Camps; Summer Camps FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: SIWASHING IT OUT .. IN SISULAW FOREST, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slept under rhododendron Last Line: I think back when I had you Subject(s): Camping; Oregon HARVEST IN UMATILLA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Heigh-ho! For the oregon highlands Last Line: Umatilla is reaping her wheat! Subject(s): Harvest; Oregon JACK DEMPSEY'S GRAVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Far out in the wilds of oregon Last Line: "unmarked, leave dempsey's grave" Subject(s): "boxing & Boxers;cowboys;dempsey, Jack (1895-1983);graves;oregon;ranch Life;west (u.s.);" Tombs;tombstones;southwest;pacific States JUXTAPOSITIONS, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: The shadow of my head Last Line: To view the full and rising moon Subject(s): Nature; Oregon; Solitude KLAMATH SUMMER, by VIRGINIA WHITE BROWN Poem Text First Line: Sun and clouds Last Line: Waiting for rain. Subject(s): Klamath, Oregon; Summer LINES WRITTEN IN OREGON, by VLADIMIR NABOKOV Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Esmeralda! Now we rest Last Line: Where the phantom orchids glimmer - %esmeralda, immer, immer Subject(s): Oregon MEN AGAINST THE SKY, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Source First Line: They will be walking, they will be talking together Subject(s): Oregon METAPHYSICS AT LAKE OSWEGO, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn like never before Last Line: You neither let go nor withhold. Subject(s): Dawn; Lakes; Oregon; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds MOUNT HOOD, by RENA BARNEY CULBERTSON Poem Text First Line: Now, at last, I've made of you Last Line: Now ... You are mine! Subject(s): Mount Hood, Oregon ODE TO MOUNT HOOD, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Author of music, majesty, and might Last Line: And is to be thine only potentate. Subject(s): Mount Hood, Oregon ON THE OREGON TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We're the prairie pilgrim crew Last Line: Flag that leads the white man 'round the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Buffaloes; Cowboys; Oregon; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Prairies; Plains OREGON CRISIS HOTLINE, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source First Line: I get a call in the middle of the night Subject(s): Crisis Centers; Oregon OREGON HOLLY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: As holly tells of feudal days Last Line: Has both their charms together. Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Oregon; Patriotism; West (u.s.) - Exploration OREGON STATE SONG, by J. A. BUCHANAN Poem Source First Line: Land of the empire builders Subject(s): Oregon OREGON WINTER, by JEANNE MCGAHEY Poem Source First Line: The rain begins. This is no summer rain Last Line: And drying leather, and catalogues, and apple cores. %the farmers clean their boots, and whittle, an Subject(s): Oregon OREGON, 1859, by KRISTIN FOGDALL Poem Source First Line: I write so meagerly to you Last Line: The first orchard in the territory Subject(s): Oregon; Writing And Writers THAT GENTLE MAN FROM BOSTON; AN IDYL OF OREGON, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two noble brothers loved a fair Last Line: "the guirl, this morning married me." Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Variant Title(s): That Gentle Man From Boston Town Subject(s): Oregon THE EAGLE RIDE; OR, SEE FIRST THY NATIVE LAND, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: The bell tolled 'ten'; then sang 'eleven' in glee Last Line: "see first of all thy native land." Subject(s): Mount Hood, Oregon; Native Americans - Reservations; Tourists; Travel; West (u.s.); Yellowstone National Park; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States THE FATED RACE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: I stood on the banks of the klickitat Last Line: Must sink beneath the flood. Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Oregon; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal THE FOURTH IN OREGON, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, independence of old ways! Last Line: Above the battle star of mars Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Oregon THE GRAND RONDE VALLEY, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, me! I know how like a golden flower Last Line: O hear! -- the lullabies that low winds croon. Subject(s): Oregon THE LEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: As o'er a sea untried and dark Last Line: Throw open wide the door! Subject(s): Exhibitions; Oregon; Roads; World's Fairs; Expositions; Paths; Trails THE RACE OF THE OREGON, by JOHN JAMES MEEHAN Poem Text First Line: Lights out! And a prow turned toward the Last Line: The matchless race of the oregon. Subject(s): Oregon (ship); Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898) THE RUSH OF THE OREGON, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They held her south to magellan's mouth Last Line: For the chance of a bitter fight! Subject(s): Oregon (ship); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898) TO A SOUTHERN STATESMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this thy voice whose treble notes of fear Last Line: And heave the engineer of evil with his mine. Subject(s): Calhoun, John C. (1782-1850); Oregon; Slavery; Texas; Serfs WINGWALKING IN OREGON, by ROBERT PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Last sunday petrified %on bridal veil, a beginner's climb Subject(s): Oregon |
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