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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: STEAMBOATS Matches Found: 12 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GRACE DARLING; OR THE WRECK OF THE 'FORFARSHIRE', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the night was beginning to close in one rough september day Last Line: And for her equal in true heroism we cannot find another. Subject(s): Disasters; Heroism; Pain; Sea; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Storms; Survival; Wind; Heroes; Heroines; Suffering; Misery; Ocean MID-OCEAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaning on the rail, looking at the lead Last Line: Atom in the void, on the western sea! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Steamboats; Travel; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips NO MONEY, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last empress of china Last Line: That's why there is no money Subject(s): Steamboats REFLECTIONS, ON CROSSING LAKE CHAMPLAIN IN A STEAMBOAT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Islet on the lake's calm bosom Last Line: Thou shalt yield thy noble dead! Subject(s): Crab Island, Lake Champlain; Lake Champlain; Steamboats SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD: 2. THE OCEAN STEAMER, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With streaming pennons, scorning sail and oar Last Line: Which hailed her coming as a thing sublime. Subject(s): Steamboats THE BURNING OF THE STEAMER 'CITY OF MONTREAL.', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal Last Line: Therefore be prepared for that happy land where all troubles are o'er. Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Fire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Smoke; Steamboats; Valor; Bravery THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 4: LORD STANHOPE'S STEAMER, by T. BAKER Poem Text First Line: Lord stanhope hit upon a novel plan Last Line: Alas! The duck was doom'd not to succeed! Subject(s): Stanhope, Charles. Lord Mahon (1753-1816; Steamboats THE STEAMBOAT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how yon flaming herald treads Last Line: Shall never wake in day! Subject(s): Steamboats THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER 'LONDON'; WHILE ON HER WAY TO AUSTRALIA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1866, and on a very beautiful day Last Line: And they thanked god and captain cavassa, who did their lives save. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Drowning; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Storms; Dead, The THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER 'STELLA', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month of march and in the year of 1899 Last Line: But I hope their souls are now in heaven in safe keep. Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Fog; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Haze TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. ON AN ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mid-ocean, night Last Line: Light sways slowly. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Steamboats; Tourists; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Ocean; Journeys; Trips WRECK OF THE STEAMER MOHEGAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good people of high and low degree Last Line: And pray to god to protect him at night before ye sleep. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Sea; Steamboats; Survival; Dead, The; Ocean |
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