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Subject: STEAMBOATS
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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