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| Searching... Subject: WHALES Matches Found: 55 A BESTIARY: THE WHALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the whale is a fish, I wis" Last Line: Must him follow to hell's depths dim Subject(s): Whales A MOTHER'S SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little ships of whitest pearl Last Line: Whales. Subject(s): Girls; Mothers; Pearls; Sailing & Sailors; Whales; Seamen; Sails ABORTED WHALE WATCH, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The tent-sized umbrella I have foolishly brought Last Line: Spouts mingling with the mist, then in the hush %create sound waves, create language, create music Subject(s): Marine Animals; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sea Voyages; Seasickness; Tourists; Travel; Whales AND GOD CREATED THE GREAT WHALES, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sea; Whales BEN BLUFF, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ben bluff was a whaler, and many a day Last Line: "take a whale for a wife, -- not a wife for a whale!" Subject(s): Greenland; Sailing & Sailors; Whales; Seamen; Sails BESTIARY U.S.A.: WHALE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whale on the beach, you dinosaur Subject(s): God; Religion; Whales; Theology BESTIARY U.S.A.: WHALE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whale on the beach, you dinosaur Last Line: Putting on our socks and working in the little boxes we call the office Subject(s): God; Religion; Whales BLOWING WHALE, by TAKAMURA KOTARO Poem Source First Line: As may came to the kuroshio off mount kinka Last Line: On the ojika peninsula, at ayukawa port, the siren is on, %but this massive optimist is utterly unaw Subject(s): Whales BLUEST WHALE, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Happy, she sings a day-long song Last Line: When no one is watching, %she blues the ocean. %for fun she blows her top Subject(s): Whales CETACEAN, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: Out of fisherman's wharf, san francisco, sunday, early Last Line: Slipping into the deep again, at a shallow angle Subject(s): Whales ECOLOGY LESSON, by JOYCE LA MERS Poem Source First Line: The great blue whale, once near extinct Last Line: Swilling down endangered krill Subject(s): Environment; Whales ETUDES DE PLUSIERS PAYSAGES DE L' AME: 1, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The storm came monday night. On wednesday we Last Line: Just to be sure Subject(s): Whales FOR A COMING EXTINCTION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray whale / now that we are sending you to the end Last Line: That it is we who are important Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Environment; Extinct Animals; Whales; Dead, The; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation FOR THE DEATH OF 100 WHALES, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE Poem Source First Line: Hung midsea %like a boat mid-air Last Line: From the beasts' wet shore Subject(s): Animal Rights; Whales INTO THE STORM, by THEODORE H. GENOWAYS Poem Source First Line: Cherry-flame sunrise, and already Last Line: As an albino eye. Sailor, take warning Subject(s): Whales JONAH AND THE WHALE, by VIOLA MEYNELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sported round the watery world Subject(s): Jonah (bible); Whales JONAH'S SONG, FR. MOBY DICK, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ribs and terrors in the whale Last Line: His all the mercy and the power. Variant Title(s): Father Mapple's Hymn Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Whales; Theology LEVIATHAN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poet's Biography First Line: This is the black sea-brute bulling through wave-wrack Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Whales LEVIATHAN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the black sea-brute bulling through wave-wrack Last Line: Of the creator. And he waits for the world to begin Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Whales LIFE FORMS, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When a whale rolls ashore Last Line: Forced into the human world %after leaping upriver Subject(s): Whales LOVE POEM, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the flesh is stripped and cut for meat Subject(s): Whales MAMMALS, by LINDA MCCARRISTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whales are mourning Last Line: In his pen of air - from whom %the wind whips such noises Subject(s): Environment; Mourning; Sea Monsters; Whales MOBY DICK, by DAVID APPELBAUM Poem Source First Line: Maybe he is white Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Whales NANTUCKET WHALERS, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: This is the breed that followed the tails Subject(s): Ships And Shipping; Whales NATURAL WORLD: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is almost round. The seas Last Line: For a man to sleep in. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Extinct Animals; Whales; Dead, The QUAKER GRAVEYARD IN NANTUCKET, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A brackish reach of shoal off madaket Last Line: The lord survives the rainbow of his will Subject(s): Sea; Whales RAINBOW-COLORED WHALE, by FERENC JUHASZ Poem Source First Line: Now your grave is sinking Last Line: Flower then, flower into %the death wish of the lily Subject(s): Whales SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow of lighthouse along the beach Subject(s): Admiration; Marine Animals; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Whales; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow of lighthouse along the beach Last Line: Blue smoke snaking up the pink sky Subject(s): Admiration; Marine Animals; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Whales SEA KNELL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered to the surfy marge Last Line: I hearkened with an ear much less %byronic than before Subject(s): Whales SEMPITERNAL, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out at sea the sun / was shining Last Line: North each time . Subject(s): Sea; Silver; Sun; Water; Whales; Ocean SHELTERED, by JOAN PAYNE KINCAID Poem Source First Line: What do we think about whales Last Line: Along wit the paradise that once was? Subject(s): Whales THE CACHALOT, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand years now had his breed Last Line: He fell asleep upon the swell. Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Whales THE FAMOUS TAY WHALE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month of december, and in the year 1883 Last Line: That is to say, if the people all are willing. Subject(s): Boats; Dundee, Scotland; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Whales; Ocean THE POOR FISH, by HENRY W. GOODRICH Poem Text First Line: I feel we cannot fail,' Last Line: Be sure he's not a floating contact mine. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Whales; Anglers THE QUAKER GRAVEYARD IN NANTUCKET, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A brackish reach of shoal off madaket Subject(s): Sea; Whales; Ocean THE WELLFLEET WHALE, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You have your language too Subject(s): Environment; Whales; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE WHALE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The whale that wanders round the pole Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Whales THE WHALE IN THE BLUE WASHING MACHINE, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are depths even in a household Subject(s): Whales THE WHALER'S ODYSSEY, by C. H. WINTER Poem Text First Line: I met him on the lachlan side Last Line: When he pursued that gundaroo! Alternate Author Name(s): Riverina Subject(s): Language; Story-telling; Travel; Whales; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips THE WHALES, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: In the days when still one went to look for whales, cruising so far Last Line: No more whales. Subject(s): Religion; Whales; Theology TRIUMPH OF THE WHALE, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Io! Paean! Io! Sing %to the finny people's king Last Line: This should be the prince of whales Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Sea; Whales WATCHING THE WHALE, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A hard gray wave, her fin, walks out on the water Subject(s): Whales WELLFLEET WHALE, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You have your language too Last Line: You have become like us, %disgraced and mortal Subject(s): Environment; Whales WHALE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Gone astray, as in the dreams of love Last Line: Her alluring and robust anatomy Subject(s): Desire; Love; Marine Animals; Whales WHALE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain, with a silver flail Last Line: "and there was whale!" Subject(s): Creation; God; Judgment Day; Whales; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man WHALE, by GEOFFREY DEARMER Poem Source First Line: Wouldn't you like to be a whale Subject(s): Whales WHALE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now I will fashion the tale of a fish Last Line: And have his bliss and blessedness for ever! Subject(s): Fables; Whales WHALE, by YOSA BUSON Poem Source First Line: A whale! Last Line: Up goes its tail! Alternate Author Name(s): Buson; Taniguchi Buson Subject(s): Whales WHALE AND THE ESSEX, by ALOYSIUS MICHAEL SULLIVAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When storms go growling off to lonely places Alternate Author Name(s): Sullivan, A. M. Subject(s): Sea; Whales WHALE BIRTH, VANCOUVER AQUARIUM, by MIRANDA PEARSON Poem Source First Line: The school children are told how lucky they are. What they are about to see Last Line: Till the water grows private with the dark Subject(s): Stillbirth; Whales WHALE SONG, by MARY GOOSE Poem Source First Line: I always knew we would be in trouble Last Line: From the act of dying have burned my paper-cut finger Subject(s): Whales WHALE SPOUTING, by TAKAMURA KOTARO Poem Source First Line: When may entered the black current off kinkazan island Last Line: The lookout siren is hooting at ayukawa port on the oshika peninsula, but this colossal optimist is Subject(s): Whales WHALE, WHALE, STAY ALONE!, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: A cow, does it suffer if you stab the calf Last Line: All whales are stupid. I have proof Subject(s): Whales WHALES WEEP NOT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains Last Line: And dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Sea; Whales |
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