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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SWIMMERS Matches Found: 68 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 400-METER FREESTYLE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gun full swing the swimmer catapults and Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Sports; Swimming & Swimmers A BRIEF MANUAL FOR SWIMMERS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: History has written its ritual runes and we Subject(s): History; Writing & Writers; Swimming & Swimmers; Historians; Swimmers A MEMORY OF HER LODGED IN WET AIR AND SKIN, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the slightly wet air in the skin is the hillside Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers; Time A SWIMMER'S DREAM, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn is dim on the dark soft water Last Line: And here to south of them swells the sea. Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; Dreams; Seasons; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Fall; Sunrise; Nightmares; Swimmers BARTON SPRINGS, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh life, how I loved your cold spring mornings of putting my stuff in Last Line: There just might be time to catch up on praise Subject(s): Springs (water); Swimming And Swimmers; Cancer (disease) BOYS BATHING, by F. H. KENDON Poem Text First Line: They laugh! They leap! The clear Last Line: Of naked bathing boys! Subject(s): Boys; Swimming & Swimmers BUOYANCY, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A swimmer swims out through voids of drypoint, inkwash, Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers DAWN SWIM, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was to have been the summer Last Line: At the foot of the bed Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers DON'T TELL ANYONE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had been married for six or seven years Last Line: That will never be read by anyone Subject(s): Swimming And Swimmers FRUSTRATION (2), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have given up bathing Last Line: Threatens to cancel my policy. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers HOW TO SWIM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas many days with sam and jim Last Line: I learn at last that I can swim. Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers IN BAHIA HONDA, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light a blunder, a gaffe Subject(s): Florida Keys; Swimming & Swimmers IN SWIMMING-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds above, as white as wool Last Line: Dropping, drifting through it all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Children; Clouds; Swimming & Swimmers; Streams; Creeks; Childhood; Swimmers LAMENT FOR THE NON-SWIMMERS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They never feel they can be well in the water Last Line: They splash ashore, pretending to feel buoyant Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers LEARNING TO SWIM, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At forty-eight, to be given water, Last Line: Most of all, their dissolve Subject(s): Middle Age; Swimming & Swimmers MAUDLIN'S SONG: 2, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The maids went down to dip in the pool Last Line: Though the night was cool. Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers NIGHT SWIM, by SYLVIA HEEN Poem Text First Line: A wild plunge into black ice Last Line: And took it home. Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers NOT BAD, DAD, NOT BAD', by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think you are most yourself when you are swimming Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Swimming And Swimmers NOW THE CHILDREN ARE OLD ENOUGH, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the children are old enough to see what there is to see Subject(s): Children; London, England; City Traffic; Swimming & Swimmers OCEANUS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While still the dusk impends above the gimmering waste Last Line: Above thou art living death, oblivion under! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers ON THE BENEFIT RECEIVED BY MIS MAJESTY FROM SEA-BATHING, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sovereign of an isle renowned Last Line: Which strength restored to thee. Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers PASTORAL, by NEVILLE PEACE Poem Text First Line: Remember the naked boys you saw from the train window? Last Line: You probably saw us from the train window. Subject(s): Boys; Swimming & Swimmers QUARTER-MILE, by PHILLIP GRAY Poem Text First Line: The morning shouted gay young promises Last Line: I swam another quarter-mile . . . You stayed . . . Subject(s): Love; Swimming & Swimmers REAL SWIMMING, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him in the distance, as the train went speeding by Last Line: When my teeth were wont to chatter and my lips were blue with cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers S IS FOR SWIMMER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When I had crossed the hill at last Last Line: Above me, clutching at the sun!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers SEPARATE, IN THE SWIM, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oiled and drowsy, idling in a sling Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers SEPTEMBER TWILIGHT, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A large pool, and tall trees, and lo! Undressed Last Line: But inwardly content it onward speeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers SHALLOWS, by FRANCES DICKENSON PINDER Poem Text First Line: I must swim out Last Line: And fade, as a sail. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Frances Dickenson; Pinder, F. D. Subject(s): Sea; Swimming & Swimmers; Ocean; Swimmers SIRI THE SWIMMER - MISS BREMER, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When evening with its breezy air Last Line: A plunge through starlit deeps! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers STARING AT THE PACIFIC, AND SWIMMING IN IT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind, she thinks Last Line: Haze, how the ocean holds Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Swimming & Swimmers STILL ON WATER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Solitude closes down around us Subject(s): Calm; Love; Nature; Nudity; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nakedness; Swimmers SUNBURNT BOYS, by JOHN CHARLES MCNEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down on the lumbee river Last Line: Sunburnt boys! Subject(s): Boys; Swimming & Swimmers SUNDAY, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, / the sea has its own religion Last Line: Love starts over and over again. Subject(s): Slavery; Swimming & Swimmers; Serfs; Swimmers SWIMMER, by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His chin cut water Last Line: Was acheron. Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Hades; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Dead, The; Swimmers SWIMMERS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took the crazy short-cut to the bay Last Line: And death, a long and vivid holiday. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Swimming & Swimmers; Dead, The; Swimmers SWIMMIN'-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was so hot in school I sat an' sweat Last Line: They're tyin' all our stockin's into knots! Subject(s): Children; Swimming & Swimmers; Childhood; Swimmers SWIMMING BY NIGHT, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light going out in the forehead Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers SWIMMING IN THE PACIFIC, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At sunset my foot outreached the mounting pacific's Last Line: Like a dream all years moved to Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers; Pacific Ocean SWIMMING POOL, by RALPH BURNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We dropped rubber bricks to the bottom Last Line: To his scalp but finned at top Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers; Fathers & Sons THE BATHER, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the path to the lake twists out of sigh Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers THE CASE OF EDGAR ABBOTT AND PHILIP RIDD, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was edgar alvin abbott, who had Last Line: "leaping bravely to her rescue, cried: ""I'ii save you!"" and he did." Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Lifeguards; Seashore; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore; Swimmers THE DEEPER DESIRE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From noon and afternoon rich blue has bled Last Line: Ocean and solitude had lured them there. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Solitude; Swimming & Swimmers; Loneliness; Swimmers THE EXCHANGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am watching a woman swim below the surface Subject(s): Dreams; Relationships; Swimming & Swimmers; Women; Nightmares; Swimmers THE LOVING STRIP, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not for men alone do we remove our clothes Last Line: Like young seals around our rock. Subject(s): Aunts; Burlesque; Chicanos; Motion Pictures; Swimming & Swimmers; Theater & Theaters; Striptease; Mexican Americans; Movies; Cinema; Swimmers; Stage Life THE MIDNIGHT SWIM, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alchemy snared me with a spell Last Line: Not horizontal, on a sea. Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers THE OLD SWIMMER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I often wander on the beach Last Line: Other swimmers will. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers THE OLD SWIMMIN'-HOLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The old swimmin'-hole! Whare the crick so still and deep Last Line: And dive off in my grave like the old swimmin'-hole. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers; Youth THE RIVER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a mighty river that I knew Last Line: In that dim land that lies beyond our dreams. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Rivers; Swimming & Swimmers; Dead, The; Nightmares; Swimmers THE RIVER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt both pleasure and a shiver Last Line: We'd found by plunging into the wild river. Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Pleasure; Rivers; Swimming & Swimmers; Male-female Relations; Swimmers THE ROUND FISH, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With neither bones nor skin Last Line: From the one that you are making as you go. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Roads; Sea; Swimming & Swimmers; Paths; Trails; Ocean; Swimmers THE SUMMER I WAS SIXTEEN, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The turquoise pool rose up to meet us, Subject(s): Teenagers; Children; Growth; Summer; Swimming & Swimmers; Childhood; Swimmers THE SWIMMER, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: Saved! And he fondles the pebbly sand Last Line: And he looks back toward the furious sea... Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers THE SWIMMER, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In dog-days plowmen quit their toil Last Line: Come to the top, o wicked swimmer! Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers THE SWIMMER (1), by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who would linger idle Last Line: And shadow-haunted ocean gleams. Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers THE SWIMMER (2), by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yonder, lo! The tide is flowing Last Line: And shadow-haunted ocean gleams! Subject(s): Sea; Swimming & Swimmers; Ocean; Swimmers THE SWIMMER OF NEMI (THE LAKE OF NEMI: SEPTEMBER), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White through the azure Last Line: Curv'd like a flower o'er the waters of nemi. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Laughter; Nemi (lake), Italy; Rome, Italy; Swimming & Swimmers THE SWIMMER'S MOMENT, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: For everyone / the swimmer's moment at the whirlpool comes Subject(s): Swimming And Swimmers THE SWIMMER'S RACE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the clover and the trembling sea Last Line: As life is lost in immortality. Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers THE SWIMMING STAR, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Into the ocean's depths he plunged, Last Line: "a shark was on my trail!" Subject(s): Sharks; Swimming & Swimmers THE TALK, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark square wooden room at noon Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Swimming & Swimmers THINKING ABOUT SHELLEY, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arm over arm I swam out into the rain Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) THOREAU WADING IN A RIVER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On summer days at the swampy edge of the river Last Line: Going zap1 and zap! Zap! Zap! All the way home Subject(s): Rivers; Summer; Swimming & Swimmers; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) TO THE SWIMMER, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I watch you, strong of arm and endurance, battling and struggling Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers TWO CITIES, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a stretch of water, a city on each side Subject(s): Swimming & Swimmers WASTWATER TO SCAWFELL, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love to kiss thy feet Last Line: The children of the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Swimming And Swimmers WINGFOOT LAKE, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On her 36th birthday, thomas had shown her Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Swimming & Swimmers; United States - Race Relations WITH EMMA AT THE LADIES-ONLY SWIMMING POND ON HAMPSTEAD HEATH, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In payment for those mornings at the mirror while, Subject(s): Children; Swimming And Swimmers; Childhood WITH KIT, AGE 7, AT THE BEACH, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We would climb the highest dune Subject(s): Fathers; Labor & Laborers; Men; Prayer; Swimming & Swimmers; Work; Workers; Swimmers |
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