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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VOLCANOES Matches Found: 33 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GEOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lurid volcanoes were guarding the pole Last Line: Where they wait them the dragon and ichthyosaur! Subject(s): Death; Dinosaurs; Fossils; Geology; Nature; Volcanoes; Dead, The AETNA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: For when the rushing winds begin to blow Last Line: And th' unctuous soil recruits them in the way Subject(s): Etna (volcano); Volcanoes ANTIQUE COIN, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still etna bears the red wine and the gold Last Line: The immortal beauty of sicilian girls. Subject(s): Etna (volcano); Numismatics; Sicily; Volcanoes; Aetna (volcano); Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical CATANIA, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Catania! On thy famed and classic shore Last Line: And from the mountain's womb comes forth a sullen roar. Subject(s): Catania, Sicily; Volcanoes CINQUAIN: LAVA, by KENNETH CHING Poem Text First Line: Geysers Last Line: Of pele! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Volcanoes HALEAKALA, MAUI, by PAUL NELSON Poem Source First Line: Downslope into the crater Subject(s): Maui Island, Hawaii; Volcanoes HAWAII AND OAHU, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hawaii, with thy sea-washed shore Last Line: Until we meet again. Subject(s): Farewell; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Mountains; Volcanoes; Parting; Oceania; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HIS FIRST LINES (PRESERVED BY HIS MOTHER), by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In awful ruins aetna thunders nigh Last Line: While aetna thundering from the bottom boils. Subject(s): Etna (volcano); Volcanoes; Aetna (volcano) HONGO STORE 29 MILES VOLCANO, HILO, HAWAII, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My parents felt those rumblings Subject(s): Volcanoes HOTEL VESUVIUS, by RAOUL SCHROTT Poem Source First Line: Swaths of smoke from burnt oil spew out the vent Last Line: Off somewhere singing like a siren Subject(s): Volcanoes I HAVE NEVER SEEN VOLCANOES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To the hills return! Variant Title(s): Poem: 165; Poem: 17 Subject(s): Volcanoes INSIDE THE GHOST VOLCANO, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the body of a morbid hanging doll Last Line: As pleas for hushed exhibits Subject(s): Volcanoes KAPIOLANI, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Where the great green combers break in thunder on the barrier reefs Last Line: "from this day, thou, lord jehovah, be our one and only god!" Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Hawaii; Religion; Volcanoes; Theology KAPIOLANI, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from the terrors of nature a people have fashion'd and worship a spirit Last Line: Demon from hawa-I-ee. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hawaii; Kapiolani (hawaiian Chietainess); Volcanoes LAVA, by DANIELA CRASNARU Poem Source First Line: All that I loved, I've killed Last Line: Drowned deeper and deeper by the lava %of my words Subject(s): Death; Life; Volcanoes LOO-WIT, by WENDY ROSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way they do / this old woman Last Line: Loo-wit sings and sings and sings. Subject(s): Mount Saint Helens, Washington; Volcanoes MOUNT SHASTA, by JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE Poem Text First Line: Behold the dread mt. Shasta, where it stands Last Line: The snow immaculate upon that mountain's brow! Alternate Author Name(s): Yellow Bird Subject(s): Volcanoes MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only on the rarest occasions, when the blue air Last Line: That way, as is said of certain hill creatures Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Fanatics And Fanaticism; Mountain Climbing; Mountains; Volcanoes NEGOTIATIONS WITH A VOLCANO, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We will call you agua like the rivers and cool jugs Subject(s): Volcanoes ODDA, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The smoke rises from the earth Last Line: At night as fiery pillars %over israel Subject(s): Fire; Israel; Smoke; Volcanoes ON THE LIPS OF THE LAST OF THE INCAS, by JOSE EUSEBIA CARO Poem Source First Line: Today arriving on pichincha's slope Last Line: Unknown and free Subject(s): Graves; Heaven; Incas; Volcanoes POMPEII: A.D. 79, by EMILY FRAGOS Poem Source First Line: The day before, as there is always that Last Line: Sliding under our feet at a little past noon Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy; Volcanoes SLOPES OF ETNA, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace is written on the doorstep Last Line: Grey-black rock. %call it peace? Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): Peac Subject(s): Peace; Volcanoes THE DIFFERENT DAY, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if the hawk knew Last Line: And darkness golden! Subject(s): Volcanoes THE RETICENT VOLCANO KEEPS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is immortality Subject(s): Volcanoes; Immortality THE VOLCANO HOUSE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Near mauna loa's mountain top Last Line: That wonder land doth seem. Subject(s): Hawaii; Mountains; Volcanoes; Hills; Downs (great Britain) TO MOUNT AETNA, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Aetna - I've been up vesuvius / vesuvius has shrunk, it seems Last Line: A little more . . . Or less . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Etna (volcano); Volcanoes; Aetna (volcano) TO PELE (GODDESS OF KILAUEA VOLCANO), by ANNE MOTT-SMITH Poem Text First Line: Break this spell of brittle hardness Last Line: Oh, pele -- live again! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Volcanoes VOLCANO IS DARK, by MALCOLM LOWRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The volcano is dark, and suddenly thunder Last Line: Or the groans of love -- Subject(s): Erotic Love; Volcanoes VOLCANOES, by BELLA AKHMADULINA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Extinct volcanoes are silent Last Line: At your dead feet? Did he, didn't he, %bellow: 'forgive me!'? Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy; Volcanoes VOLCANOES, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Each volcano lifts its profile Last Line: Like tumbled baskets, spilling flowers Subject(s): Fire; Stones; Travel; Volcanoes VOLCANOES BE IN SICILY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Vesuvius at home Subject(s): Volcanoes VOLCANOS, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Every volcano rears its outlined height Last Line: Baskets o' erturned, that pour abroad their flowers Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Hearts; Passion; Volcanoes |
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