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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Sea; Whales


BEN BLUFF, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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