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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SUMMER CAMPS Matches Found: 48 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CAMP IN THREE LIGHTS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against the darkness sharply lined Last Line: The faded fire, the aurora's loss. Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Camps; Summer Camps A TENT BESIDE A RIVER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering lanterned, canvas-sprawled fields Last Line: Nor their words ferried anyone safely anywhere. Subject(s): Bible; Camping; Faith; Parents; Camps; Summer Camps; Belief; Creed; Parenthood ACTING ON A TIP, by JAMES TATE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We went to the bug-eating state Subject(s): Camping; Insects; Camps; Summer Camps; Bugs AN ANSWER TO VARIOUS BARDS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in Last Line: And then return to sydney and vermilionize the bars. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Camping; Death; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Camps; Summer Camps; Dead, The AT CAMP, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone says the deep woods are soothing Last Line: Howling for howling, the best kind of howl Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN GREEN, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At summer camp, / I wrapped my arms around Last Line: In my own small commonwealth Subject(s): Camping; Trees; Bronx, New York City; Country Life; City & Town Life; Nature; Camps; Summer Camps BREAKING CAMP, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having spent a hard-earned sleep, you must break camp Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps CAMPING AT THE HEADLANDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We love each landscape Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps CAMPING OUT, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now she cleans her teeth into the lake Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps COUNTRYSIDE CAMP, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gypsy man and gypsy woman drinking tea Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons; Camps; Summer Camps; Agriculture; Farmers EDDY-GRAMS: 1. EDDY BLEW HIMSELF, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When eddy bilt his mountin camp Last Line: He'll blow his hed off yet. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Camping; Camps; Summer Camps EDDY-GRAMS: 2. EDDY BUM PROOF CELLER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When eddy blasted out that hole Last Line: Oh boy—fur me his celler. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Camping; Camps; Summer Camps FOG ON KENNESAW, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We pitch our tent on kennesaw mountain Last Line: Maneuvering on kennesaw. Subject(s): Camping; Confederate States Of America; Fog; Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia; Camps; Summer Camps; Confederacy; Haze 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 INDIAN DRUMS, by ISABEL WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: Indian summer camps in the hills Last Line: Where her bright fires are burning! Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps JOHNSON'S ANTIDOTE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down along the snakebite river where the overlanders camp Last Line: Somehow seems to dodge the subject of the snakebite antidote. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Life; Snakes; Camps; Summer Camps; Serpents; Vipers MORNING IN CAMP, by HERBERT BASHFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bed of ashes and a half-burned brand Last Line: Great, pulsing heart of bold, advancing day! Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps NIGHT IN CAMP, by HERBERT BASHFORD Poem Text First Line: Fierce burns our fire of driftwood; overhead Last Line: The darkness pushing down upon the land. Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps NIGHT IN CAMP, by SARAH SPENCER ROE Poem Text First Line: Sparks ascending from the fire Last Line: Presently to die. Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Fireplaces; Forests; Wood; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods OH LOVELY ROCK, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We stayed the night in the pathless gorge of ventana creek, up the east fork. Last Line: Felt its intense reality with love and wonder, this lonely rock Subject(s): Camping; Nature; Camps; Summer Camps PACK-TRIP SUITE, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night is revery awake Last Line: Quiet admits the dark intense. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Camping; Night; Camps; Summer Camps; Bedtime PINE CAMP, by GORDON BAINE CLARK Poem Text First Line: There were the three of us and we were young Last Line: We hear winds in whisper with far-distant pines. Subject(s): Autumn; Camping; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Camps; Summer Camps POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: MARCH TO CAMP MONTGOMERY, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD Poem Text First Line: Again we have orders, from high sources to march Last Line: We completed this journey of four or five miles. Subject(s): American Civil War; Camping; U.s. - History; Walking; Camps; Summer Camps RAIN IN CAMP, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The camp-fire smoulders and will not burn Last Line: Alas, shall there no man paint or tell. Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Rain; Camps; Summer Camps RATS AT ALLATOONA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the lake the stars scatter their crumbs of light Last Line: The lobe of an ear. Subject(s): Camping; Rats; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Camps; Summer Camps RURAL PROGRESS; OR WE'RE LIVIN' 'MOST IN TOWN, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: So you're sorry for us fellows Last Line: Are a-livin' 'most in town. Subject(s): Camping; Country Life; Fields; Towns; Camps; Summer Camps; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SALTBUSH BILL, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now this is the law of the overland that all in the west obey Last Line: How the best day's work that he ever did was the day that he lost the fight. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Camping; Peace; Camps; Summer Camps SALTBUSH BILL'S GAMECOCK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas saltbush bill, with his travelling sheep, was making his way / to town Last Line: Remarked, 'discharged with a clean discharge -- the assault was justified!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Camping; Cooking & Cooks; Fate; Sin; Camps; Summer Camps; Destiny SALTBUSH BILL, J. P., by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the land where leichhardt went Last Line: Their saltbush bill, j.P. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Horses; Camps; Summer Camps SPEARFISH CANYON, by CORIE DAVIS HENTON Poem Text First Line: My camp fire smoke wreathes in and out the trees Last Line: And rest, by nature soothed, carefree, content. Subject(s): Camping; Canyons; Explorers; Camps; Summer Camps; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers STORY OF MONGREL GREY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the story the stockman told Last Line: The purchase money of mongrel grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Dogs; Forests; Moon; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods TELLING THEM OF TAMPA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "weary months I've spent in tampa, where the luscious hardtack grows" Last Line: Down at -- o! Confound old tampa. Sister! Won't you pass / the cake! Subject(s): Camping;war Bonds;weariness; Camps;summer Camps;fatigue THE CAMPER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night 'neath the northern skies, lone, black, and grim Last Line: Watch o'er his hemlock bed—his sinless sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Camping; Nature; Night; Solitude; Camps; Summer Camps; Bedtime; Loneliness THE CAMPFIRE, by MARGARET ADELAIDE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Until that eve I never knew you Last Line: Just you and I: outside the night! Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Camps; Summer Camps THE FIRST SURVEYOR, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The opening of the railway line! - the governor and all! Last Line: I'm sorry, but I can't come down -- I'm dining out tonight!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Cattle; Horses; Hunting; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: THE GREAT NEBULA OF ANDROMEDA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We get into camp after Last Line: To murder you while you sleep Subject(s): Andromeda (constellation); Camping; Love; Camps; Summer Camps THE OLD CAMP COFFEE-POT (WRITTEN FOR EBEN W. MARTIN), by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old camp-mate, black and rough to see Last Line: From your black throat, old coffee-pot. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Camping; Cowboys; Camps; Summer Camps THE OLD CAMP; WRITTEN IN A ROMAN FORTIFICATION IN BAVARIA, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a cloud before the sun Last Line: If sadness fits the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bavaria; Camping; Life; Roman Empire; Camps; Summer Camps THE PLAYGROUND AT PAOWNYC, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There's a playground hid in the forest's depths Last Line: With tender care and love. Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Leisure; Parks; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE SIMPLE LIFE - IN TENTS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Ten thousand khaki tents or more Last Line: For living proves a coarse burlesque. Subject(s): Camping; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps THE SUMMER CAMP, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here slacken rein; here let the dusty mules Last Line: And gird our loins for action. Let us go! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Camping; Forests; Life; Past; Travel; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods; Journeys; Trips THE SUMMER-CANP BUS PULLS AWAY FROM THE CURB, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever he needs, he has or doesn't Subject(s): Camping; Summer; Farewell; Camps; Summer Camps; Parting THE TENT ASTRONOMER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a barrier against mosquitoes Last Line: Let lens and mirror lift me up toward light. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Camping; Solitude; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps; Loneliness TO A WOMAN GLANCING UP FROM THE RIVER, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On either bank Subject(s): Camping; Rivers; Camps; Summer Camps VACATION HINTS FOR YOUNG VERMONTERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! All you young vermonters Last Line: The state you're living in. Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Country Life; Deer; Hunting; Mountain Life - Vermont; Vacation; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters WANDERERS, by JAMES HEBBLETHWAITE Poem Text First Line: As I rose in the early dawn Last Line: Pull up the stakes and go! Subject(s): Camping; Wandering & Wanderers; Camps; Summer Camps; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WOHELO, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Down in maine at camp wohelo Last Line: In our hearts their fame will live. Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Girls; Maine (state); Sports; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements YANKEE DOODLE UP TO DATE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Old spain took cuba by the hair Last Line: "those islands will come handy." Subject(s): Boys; Camping; Children; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood |
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