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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WATERFALLS Matches Found: 80 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMERICAN FALLS, by GREG KEELER Poem Source First Line: At 4:00 a.M., I drove to american falls Last Line: A smooth new dam is there instead - %no forebay, just water in a hard, thin line Subject(s): Waterfalls ANCHORED TO THE INFINITE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The builder who first bridged niagara's gorge Last Line: Andwe are anchored to the infinite! Subject(s): God; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls AT NIAGARA, by RAFAEL POMBO Poem Source First Line: Again I see thee! - once again I know Last Line: Rendering back to thee - forgetfulness Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls AT NIAGARA FALLS, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: In days of old, before man's advent here Last Line: That through this tract of years my course has planned. Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls AT THE CASCADE, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters rippled, gleamed and fell Last Line: The rocks with silver spray were wet. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): Waterfalls AT THE FALLS, by MARTHA CARLSON-BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: Above the current Last Line: The water so loud we have to shout Subject(s): Nature; Waterfalls AT THE LEAP OF THE WATERS, by EDWARD FRANCIS GARESCHE Poem Source First Line: How the swift river runs bright to its doom Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls BEAUTIFUL BABY, by SCOTT C. WITHIAM Poem Source First Line: The cascade Last Line: Cameras flashing, he slipped it back on Subject(s): Babies; Waterfalls BLACK ROCK OF KILTEARN, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They named it aultgraat - ugly burn Last Line: For tombstone, grave %and trumpet of your resurrection Subject(s): Waterfalls BROOKLYN WATERFALL, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Water where you least expect it Last Line: Where it waits for us, %not needing forgiveness Subject(s): Rain; Water; Waterfalls BUFFALO CLOUDS OVER THE MAESTRO HOON, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a useless thing to do with the morning Last Line: Still strange to one another while on their honeymoons. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Courage; Ignorance; Lions; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls; Valor; Bravery; Dullness; Stupdity BY FRAZIER CREEK FALLS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing up on lifted, folded rock Subject(s): Environment; Waterfalls; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation BY FRAZIER CREEK FALLS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Standing up on lifted, folded rock Last Line: We could live on this earth %without clothes or tools! Subject(s): Environment; Waterfalls CATTERSKILL FALLS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midst greens and shades the catterskill leaps Last Line: Till the stagnant blood ran free and warm. Subject(s): Waterfalls CHANGES, by BOB ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Under the waterfall Last Line: Point into your eyes %first winter light Subject(s): Waterfalls COLUMBIA RIVER SUITE: ACROSS FROM CELILO FALLS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Above goldendale we sat on a power relay tower Last Line: We danced and sang the dance of the white deer Subject(s): Rivers; Salmon; Tourists; Waterfalls CORA LINN, OR THE FALLS OF CLYDE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time I saw thee, cora, last Last Line: Romantic cora linn. Subject(s): Clyde River, Scotland; Waterfalls DEFINITION OF A WATERFALL, by JOHN ORMOND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not stitched to air or water but to both Last Line: Among her trailing braids. The inconstancy %is reconciled to fall and falls free Subject(s): Rivers; Waterfalls DOMESTIC LIFE: 4. THE WATERFALL, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Failing to hold on to things Last Line: All his furniture. Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Men; Waterfalls ELK RIVER FALLS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is where the elk river falls Subject(s): Waterfalls FALLS, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: A poplar cut loose from the bluff upstream floats Last Line: Look! The onlooker is moved, the way the tree is, %seeing that the tree is still alive and falling Subject(s): Waterfalls FALLS AT GREEN VALLEY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Boulders like gray whales breach the canyon floor Last Line: Hearts flaming like red bark on manzanita Subject(s): Rivers; Travel; Waterfalls FALLS OF GLOMACH, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain drifts forever in this place Last Line: Here through the summer make a chill wet weather Subject(s): Waterfalls IT WAS A HARD THING, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a hard thing to undo this knot Last Line: It was a hard thing to undo this knot. Subject(s): Wales; Waterfalls; Welshmen; Welshwomen MISCELLANEOUS POEMS ON LAKE BIWA: 003, by LIU YA-TZU Poem Source First Line: Cataracts flying down a thousand fathoms roll up a raging billow Last Line: Where my soul dissolves at the sight of white-wave bridge Subject(s): Waterfalls MOGG MEGONE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who stands on that cliff, like a figure of stone Last Line: Ruth boniton is dead! Subject(s): Death; Missions & Missionaries; Native Americans - Wars; New England; Norridgewock, Maine; Penobscot Bay, Maine; Rale, Sebastien (1654-1724); Saco (river), New Hampshire And Maine; U.s. - Colonial Period; Waterfalls; Dead, The NIAGARA, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: When lakes of western waters, prison bound Last Line: And thundered to the sea with joyful flow. Subject(s): Nature; Niagara Falls; Niagara River; Travel; Water; Waterfalls; Journeys; Trips NIAGARA, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thoughts are strange that crowd upon my brain Last Line: That breaks, and whispers of its maker's might. Variant Title(s): The Fall Of Niagara Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls NIAGARA, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How frail %above the bulk Last Line: Autumnal, evanescent, wan, %the moon Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls NIAGARA, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roar, raging torrent! And thou, mighty river Last Line: In triumph and glory, for god and his home! Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls NIAGARA, by EDWARD FRANCIS GARESCHE Poem Source First Line: God, in his ages past the dawn of days Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls NIAGARA, by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh that I had never heard of niagara till I beheld it Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls NIAGARA, by JOSE MARIA DE+(1) HEREDIA Poem Source First Line: Tremendous torreent! For an instant hush Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls NIAGARA, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the town of buffalo Last Line: The cataract niagara. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls; World War I; First World War NIAGARA, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy mother, erie, loves each furious form Last Line: To prove I have not passed this way in vain. Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Niagara River; Waterfalls NIAGARA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arriving early, before the lovers Last Line: The days that carry us could be these. Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Tourists; Travel; Waterfalls; Journeys; Trips NIAGARA, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tumblers of the rapids go white, go green Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls NIAGARA, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tumblers of the rapids go white, go green Last Line: The hoo hoi down, %this is niagara Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls NIAGARA, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flow on forever, in thy glorious robe Last Line: And lose itself in him. Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls NIAGARA, by ALBERT DURRANT WATSON Poem Source First Line: A thousand streams all gather into one Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls NIAGARA (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where echo ne'er hath found Last Line: Of unextinguished love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls NIAGARA (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On regan and on goneril Last Line: Cordelia -- the rainbow -- stands. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls NIAGARA FALLS, by JAN CONN Poem Source First Line: What I recall is the sound, like explosions of white noise and a constant Last Line: He went over the falls and never came back Subject(s): Death; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls NIAGARA FALLS GARDEN BREAKDOWN, by NICK BARRETT Poem Source First Line: My grandmother planted a garden to remind herself Last Line: Raw turns into the spicy-sweet smell of his skin Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls ODE TO NIAGARA, by JOSE MARIA DE+(1) HEREDIA Poem Source First Line: My lyre! Give me my lyre! My bosom Last Line: To listen to the echoes of my fame Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Niagara Falls; Water; Waterfalls ON APPROACHING THE STAUB-BACH, LAUTERBRUNNEN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uttered by whom, or how inspired - designed Last Line: This bold, this bright, this sky-born waterfall! Subject(s): Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland; Waterfalls ONLY WATER, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every great civilization %we know by heart dries up Last Line: Draining away from the tips %of skyscrapers and bridges Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Nature; Romance; Waterfalls OVER-SONG OF NIAGARA, by JOHN DANIEL LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Why stand ye, nurslings of earth, before my gates Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Waterfalls PASSAIC FALLS, by GEORGE LYNDE CATLIN Poem Text First Line: Oh fair passaic! Softly winding Last Line: To brighter, purer, scenes of bliss. Subject(s): Rivers; Waterfalls POEM WITH A STAIRWAY OF WATER FLOWING THROUGH IT, by GERRY LAFEMINA Poem Source First Line: Another story as I recall Last Line: Our drawn-in breaths; our wondrous bodies mute Subject(s): Death; Love; Waterfalls ROCK OF THE PASSAIC FALLS, by OLIVER CRANE Poem Text First Line: Rock where the many come Last Line: Echoes no more. Subject(s): Rivers; Waterfalls SACO FALLS, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rush on, bold stream! Thou sendest up Last Line: In welcome music, far away! Subject(s): Saco (river), New Hampshire & Maine; Waterfalls SILVER CREEK FALLS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: With a voice of many thunders Last Line: Silver creek, sing on for me! Subject(s): Brooks; Waterfalls; Streams; Creeks SPRINGLET, by JOSE ZORILLA Poem Source First Line: Hasting on, the springlet flows Last Line: Engulfed forevermore? Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Waterfalls TALLULAH, by JAMES MATHEWES LEGARE Poem Source First Line: Recollect thou, in thunder Last Line: Evil heads are bowed Subject(s): Waterfalls THE BLACK ROCK OF KILTEARN, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They named it aultgraat - ugly burn Subject(s): Waterfalls THE CATARACT OF LODORE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: How does the water / come down at lodore? Last Line: And this way the water comes down at lodore. Subject(s): Lodore, England; Waterfalls THE CATARACT OF LUH SHAN, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Westward I ascend the peak of incense burner Last Line: And leave the world of man forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Waterfalls THE COURSE OF LEAST RESISTANCE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The course of least resistance is Last Line: Upon the rocks below. Subject(s): Death; Water; Waterfalls; Dead, The THE FALL, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who does not know that dreadful gulf, where niagara falls Last Line: "he's been a walking in his sleep, and pitched all down the stairs!" Subject(s): Niagara Falls; Sleepwalking; Waterfalls THE FALLS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a steep wood of rocks Last Line: And the falls came down there. Subject(s): Waterfalls THE FALLS OF THE PASSAIC, by WASHINGTON IRVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a wild, tranquil vale, fringed with forests of green Last Line: Where the torrent leaps headlong, embosomed in foam. Alternate Author Name(s): Oldstyle, Jonathan Subject(s): Rivers; Waterfalls THE HUMBLE PETITION OF BRUAR WATER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lord, I know your noble ear Last Line: And athole's bonnie lasses! Subject(s): Athole, Scotland; Bruar Falls, Scotland; Waterfalls THE LAKE OF THE FALLEN MOON, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the thundering of water fills Last Line: Driving beneath the peaks from grass to grass. Subject(s): Lakes; Moon; Waterfalls; Pools; Ponds THE SECRET OF THE WATERFALL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silver waters smoothly slip / in an overarching flood Last Line: And few there are who understand. Subject(s): Floods; Marriage; Sound; Water; Waterfalls; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SEEKING OF THE WATERFALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They left their home of summer ease Last Line: "the old delight of seeking good!" Subject(s): Waterfalls THE TORRENT, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh torrent, roaring in thy giant fall Last Line: I will heroic deeds, prophetic words, proclaim. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Waterfalls; Admiration THE WATERFALL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A patch of meadow & upland Last Line: At the tread of the jubilant soul. Subject(s): Waterfalls THE WATERFALL, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For all they said Subject(s): Waterfalls THE WATERFALL, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what deep murmurs through times silent stealth Last Line: Not this with cataracts and creeks. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Christianity; Waterfalls TO THE LADY CHARLOTTE R-WD-N; FROM THE BANKS OF THE ST. LAWRENCE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not many months have now been dream'd away Last Line: Stream, banks, and bowers, have faded on my eyes! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Niagara Falls; St. Lawrence River; Waterfalls UNDER THE WATERFALL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I plunge my arm, like this Last Line: In turns therefrom sipped lovers' wine.' Subject(s): Rivers; Waterfalls VIEWING NIAGARA I WAS ASKED TO WRITE ABOUT COLOR, by JAY S. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I needed scissors to show how trees Last Line: And we both hold still in the sun Subject(s): Colors; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls VIEWING THE WATERFALL AT MOUNT LU, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight streaming on incense stone kindles violet smoke Last Line: Till I think the milky way has tumbled from the ninth height of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Waterfalls WATERFALL, by KIM SUYONG Poem Source First Line: It falls over the upright cliff Last Line: As if capsizing stupor and stability Subject(s): Waterfalls WATERFALL, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you were to read my poems, all of them, I mean Last Line: Like the fireflies at the waterfall, a wall of stars Subject(s): Waterfalls WATERFALL, by GARETH OWEN Poem Source First Line: The river of a sudden Last Line: Stood up and was pleased Subject(s): Waterfalls WATERFALL, by KABITA SINHA Poem Source First Line: Who are you? Who? You're still a stranger Last Line: At least I've kept one %waterfall, dammed up and covered with stones Subject(s): Waterfalls WATERFALL, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It plunges into itself, stone-white, mottled with emerald Subject(s): Waterfalls WRITTEN WITH A PENCIL AT THE FALL OF FYERS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the heathy hills and ragged woods Last Line: And still, below, the horrid cauldron boils -- Subject(s): Waterfalls |
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