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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WHARVES Matches Found: 13 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT THE WEST STREET PIERS, by STEPHEN MCLEOD Poem Source First Line: Something about what matters Last Line: And the sure, descending night Subject(s): Wharves BIGHT, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At low tide like this how sheer the water is Last Line: All the untidy activity continues, %awful but cheerful Subject(s): Nature; Wharves BRIGHTON PIER, by CLEMENT WILLIAM SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Which is the merriest place to love Last Line: Kicking my heels upon brighton pier! Subject(s): Brighton, England; Love; Wharves; Piers CHROMO, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This old river town saw the Subject(s): Wharves; Rivers; Piers FOR THE CENTENNIAL DINNER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friends, we are strangers; we never before Last Line: And thy dividends flow like the waves of the sea! Subject(s): Boston; Wharves; Piers JAKE'S WHARF, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days like this, off jake's, the august fog Last Line: The wharf leans seaward in the ebb-tide chop Subject(s): Wharves JOHN JONES: 5. OFF THE PIER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One last glance at these sands and stones! Last Line: You would hardly salute me by choice, john jones? Subject(s): Time; Wharves; Youth; Piers STREETS OF PEARL AND GOLD, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within, walls white as canvas stretched to stain Last Line: As I try to keep us, here upon this page. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Netherlands; Poetry & Poets; San Francisco; Villages; Wharves; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Piers; Feminism THE BIGHT, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At low tide like this how sheer the water is Subject(s): Nature; Wharves; Piers THE HORIZON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale trees on the horizon grow Last Line: So it goes. So it always will! Subject(s): Lakes; Silence; Trees; Wharves; Pools; Ponds; Piers THE OLD PIER-POST, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the sea-ward-looking one Last Line: Christ must be coming soon! Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Jesus Christ; Moon; Sea; Soul; Wharves; Dead, The; Ocean; Piers THE WHARF ON THAMES-SIDE: WINTER DAWN, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day begins: cold and misty on soiled snow Subject(s): Morning; Winter; London; Wharves; City & Town Life; Piers WHARF, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: There's that smell of the boats Last Line: And how, with nets, the fishermen bob %their boats %to sea. To sea. To catch the fish Subject(s): Sea; Wharves |
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