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Subject: TITANIC (SHIP)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A REQUIEM, by HARRIET MONROE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep softly in your ocean bed
Last Line: Who teach us how to die.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


AFTER THE TITANIC, by DEREK MAHON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They said I got away in a boat
Subject(s): Titanic (ship)


DARK PROPHECY: I SING OF SHINE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: And, yeah, brothers / while white/america sings about the unsink-
Subject(s): African Americans; Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Negroes; American Blacks


DARK PROPHECY: I SING OF SHINE, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And, yeah, brothers %while white/america sings about the unsink-
Last Line: And when the news hit shore that the titanic had sunk %shinewas up in harlem damn near drunk
Subject(s): African Americans; Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


DOWN WITH THE OLD CANOE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was twenty-five years ago
Last Line: That you are just as foolish as can be
Subject(s): Disasters;jesus Christ;pride;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship); Self-esteem;self-respect


ENOUGH SAID, by CLARK MCADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Votes for women
Last Line: Tells the tale.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Women's Rights; Feminism


FAIR PLAY, by M. L. CLAWSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A monument for millionaires
Last Line: To the men who died with their jobs.
Subject(s): Disasters; Labor & Laborers; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Work; Workers


FATE'S COMEDY, by THOMAS DOOLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A thousand years since, fate had planned
Last Line: Began to plot another play
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


FINAL MOMENTS, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fo'c'sle had gone under the creep
Last Line: The grey shape with the palaeolithic face %was still the master of the longitudes
Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


GOD MOVES ON THE WATER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
Last Line: "well, he could not pay his fare"
Subject(s): Disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship)


HARDY, THOMAS, by H. REA WOODMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The convergence of the twain
Last Line: In a solitude of the sea
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


IN MEMORIAM: THE TITANIC DISASTER, SELECTION, by H. REA WOODMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Impregnable foe from the arctic
Last Line: By that singing before the gate.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


JUST WHISPER THE MESSAGE, by THOMAS H. MULVEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lights were softly beaming o'er the brilliant ballroom floor
Last Line: The sweet-heart maid in calmness blankly prayed.
Subject(s): Disasters; Prayer; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


LEAK SOMEWHERE, by MARY JO SALTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No toy in a bathtub, the titanic
Last Line: In random order, and we start to rock %in one another's arms
Subject(s): Disasters; Motion Pictures; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


O SEA!, by LUCIAN B. WATKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O sea! O sea! O sea!
Last Line: With earth's humanity!
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


OUR SEA HEROES, by E. J. THIBAUT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Carried away down in the atlantic
Last Line: For the woman and also, for the child.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


RAGTIME!, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ragtime! Ragtime! Keep it going still!
Last Line: Gently the music fades away—and so, god rest us all!
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Music & Musicians; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Dead, The


REDEEMED!, by UNKNOWN+155    Poem Source                    
First Line: They stand redeemed! They are not what we said
Last Line: That wraps the earth in brotherhood today
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


REMEMBER, by FANNY HOWE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the great titanic
Last Line: Than the block of ice
Subject(s): Titanic (ship)


THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN; LINES ON LOSS OF THE TITANIC, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a solitude of the sea
Last Line: And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.
Subject(s): Disasters; Icebergs; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Ocean


THE GREAT TITANIC, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was on one monday morning just about one o'clock
Last Line: Sixteen hundred had to drown
Subject(s): Disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship)


THE HARVEST OF THE SEA, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The jealous sea moaned in the april night
Last Line: But through the world to-day, and up to heaven!
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The titanic left southampton
Last Line: All the women he tried to save
Subject(s): "astor, John Jacob (1864-1912);disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship);


THE TITANIC, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was on one monday morning just about one o'clock
Last Line: It was sad when that great ship went down
Subject(s): Disasters;ships & Shipping;shipwrecks;titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As she sped from dawn to gloaming, a palace upon the sea
Last Line: Immortal life, who greeted home-comers from the sea.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell me, do ye never hear it when the wind is / from the sea?
Last Line: Was that loyal note of courage which goes singing through the world!
Subject(s): Courage; Disasters; Fights; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Valor; Bravery


THE TITANIC, by GEORGE A. HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Steaming so swift and boldly
Last Line: How quickly its is brought to naught.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC, by HUDDIE LEDBETTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was midnight on the sea
Last Line: Fare thee, titanic, fare thee well.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leadbelly
Subject(s): Disasters; Johnson, Jack (1878-1946); Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beloved, you must go -- ask not to stay
Last Line: Of life's great secret on each other's heart!
Subject(s): Devotion; Disasters; Jews; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Straus, Isidor (1845-1912); Straus, Rosalie Ida (blun) (1849-1912); Titanic (ship); Judaism


THE TITANIC, by BRAND WHITLOCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: And this, the dark ironic spirit mocked
Last Line: And in the hour of failure, how to die.
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC DISASTER POEM, SELECTION, by J. H. MCKENZIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And strauss, who did the children feed
Last Line: As went down in the blue.
Subject(s): Devotion; Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Straus, Isidor (1845-1912); Straus, Rosalie Ida (blun) (1849-1912); Titanic (ship)


THE TITANIC PYGMY, by ROBERT HUGH MORRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lord, we have boasted we are wise
Last Line: And trav'lers to the unseen shore.
Subject(s): Disasters; Humility; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Vanity; Worship


THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC, OR THE WATERY GRAVE, SELECTION, by SOLOMON SMULEWITZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: There stand, in woe
Last Line: The name of ida straus!
Alternate Author Name(s): Small, Solomon
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Straus, Rosalie Ida (blun) (1849-1912); Titanic (ship)


TITANIC, by M. C. LEHR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Within the dungeon of the deep
Last Line: In music of your euloogy
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


TITANIC BLUES, by HI HENRY BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Early one morning : just about four o'clock
Last Line: And the band all playing : nearer my god to thee
Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


TITANIC TOAST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was sad indeed, it was sad in mind
Last Line: He said, I left the big motherfucker sinkin' about thirty minutes ago
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


TITANIC'S KNELL: A SATIRE ON SPEED, SELS., by HENRY BRENNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: O cruel frenzy
Last Line: Of such an empty name
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Speed; Titanic (ship)


WRECK OF THE TITANIC, by REGINALD M. TEWKSBURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only an iceberg
Last Line: Under moonlit sky!
Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)