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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WILDERNESS Matches Found: 62 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GRIZZLY IN THE ZOO, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A shame to your kin, you good-natured bear Last Line: Of the mighty paw that was meant to slay. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Wilderness; Zoos A NUBIAN LION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Monarch dethroned, with eyes where smouldering fires Last Line: With kings we yet may walk among the stars. Subject(s): Animals; Cages; Lions; Nile (river); Wilderness A WOUNDED PTARMIGAN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Haunter of the herbless peak Last Line: Painted but—in air. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Hunting; Wilderness; Wings; Hunters ABOVE PATE VALLEY, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We finished clearing the last / section of rail by noon Subject(s): Wilderness ABOVE PATE VALLEY, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We finished clearing the last %section of rail by noon Last Line: Of dynamite. %ten thousand years Subject(s): Wilderness AFTER THE WILDERNESS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When clifford wasn’t back to camp by nine Last Line: He’d wet his pants. We called it yankee tea Subject(s): Wilderness Campaign (1864) AN UNINSCRIBED MONUMENT - BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence and solitude may hint Last Line: Silent as I, and lonesome as the land. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864) AT CHANCELLORSVILLE: THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was an indiana corporal Subject(s): Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Wilderness Campaign (1864) AT CHANCELLORSVILLE: THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was an indiana corporal Last Line: We could have passed for new york infantry Subject(s): Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Wilderness Campaign (1864) BUSHED, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He invented a rainbow but lightning struck it Subject(s): Wilderness BUSHED, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He invented a rainbow but lightning struck it Last Line: Bar himself in and wait %for the great flint to come singing into his heart Subject(s): Wilderness CAN'T, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How history repeats itself Last Line: The steadfast man whose name was grant. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864) DO YOU FEAR THE WIND?, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you fear the force of the wind Last Line: But you'll walk like a man! Subject(s): Wilderness; Wind EARTH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is where it was dry Last Line: Was a nice place %once Subject(s): Earth; Wilderness ECCE IN DESERTO, by HENRY AUGUSTIN BEERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wilderness a secret keeps Last Line: Will keep the promise too. Subject(s): Wilderness ELEGIES FROM THE NORTH 1, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Earth. Red earth. And tall grass as far as you can see. You're pressed to the Last Line: You'll end your way. I, of course, always return. You don't. Which makes all %the difference Subject(s): Hunting; Indian Summer; Wilderness EN ROUTE, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The train has stopped for no apparent reason Last Line: With the lost flush of last year's autumn leaves Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Wilderness FIELDWORK, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are two kinds of people and five hundred Last Line: The jealous eyes of god have seen? Subject(s): Amazons; Beetles; Insects; Jungles; Wilderness; Bugs FIELDWORK, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are two kinds of people and five hundred Last Line: A fraction and flutter of life not even %the jealous eyes of god have seen? Subject(s): Amazons; Beetles; Insects; Jungles; Wilderness FOX FARM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pasture a shire Last Line: Woman's neck. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Foxes; Horses; Wilderness; Agriculture; Farmers HOMO SAPIENS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a morning moon the color of cream Last Line: A residue still too ancient to name Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Creation; Evolution; Skulls; Wilderness IN THE OLD STONE AGE: A DEARLY BOUGHT VICTORY, by JACK MELONE Poem Text First Line: Mid raucous cheers the hunters bore Last Line: The forbears of our aryan race! Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Wilderness; Hunters IN THE OLD STONE AGE: SPREADING THE ALARM, by JACK MELONE Poem Text First Line: Distracted, he would flee to spread Last Line: Among the tribes of vale and hill! Subject(s): Death; Murder; Wilderness; Dead, The IN THIS LOWBROW WILDERNESS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I give up my opinions Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Self; Wilderness INVERSNAID, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This darksome burn, horseback brown Last Line: Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Subject(s): Brooks; Environment; Nature; Scotland; Wilderness; Streams; Creeks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation LEE TO THE REAR [MAY 12, 1864], by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn of a pleasant morning in may Last Line: The gray-bearded man in the black slouched hat. Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864); Declaration Day LONELY LAND, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Cedar and jagged fir Last Line: Broken by strength %and still strong Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M. Subject(s): Wilderness MAGIC, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love a still conservatory Last Line: And the echoing heart deceives. Subject(s): Forests; Travel; Wilderness; Woods; Journeys; Trips MY ENEMY, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All mornin' in the mesa's glare Last Line: My enemy! My enemy!! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Coyotes; Enemies; Wilderness NEPENTHE: THE UNICORN, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! In the mute, mid wilderness Last Line: Far athwart his lair I run. Subject(s): Pride; Unicorns; Wilderness; Self-esteem; Self-respect NOCTURNE, by CROSBIE GARSTIN Poem Text First Line: The red flame flowers bloom and die Last Line: In the star-chamber of the wild. Variant Title(s): On The Back Veld Subject(s): Night; Wilderness; Bedtime NORTH, by BARRY MCKINNON Poem Source First Line: Somebodies walked the woods Last Line: A kind of ownership %not to care Subject(s): Wilderness OBLIQUE SENSORIAL SAVAGERY, by WILL ALEXANDER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are green Subject(s): Animals; Wilderness OBLIQUE SENSORIAL SAVAGERY, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are green Last Line: Always cooking in your nostrils %a wayward blend of hot photinos & selvas Subject(s): Animals; Wilderness OBSEQUIES OF STUART, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We could not pause, while yet the noontide air Last Line: In victory careering! Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Stuart, James Ewell (jeb) (1833-1864); U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864) ON SAFARI, by JENNIFER FRANKLIN Poem Source First Line: What you have come for you will not Last Line: For a moment you are witness to this life and then %leave it forever have you hurt yourself enough Subject(s): Knowledge; Nature; Wilderness PEACE OF WILD THINGS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When despair for the world grows in me Last Line: I rest in the grace of the world, and am free Subject(s): Animals; Anxiety; Despair; Nature; Peace; Wilderness POLLYWOGS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Down in maine at camp wohelo Last Line: "they'll make monkeys out of man." Subject(s): Animals; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Nature; Science; Wilderness; Scientists PORTRAITES OF THE INDITCHENOUS BEESTES OF NEW OLLAND, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ye greate blacke deville Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Wilderness; Zoos RAVINE PATH, by MAUD LUDINGTON CAIN Poem Text First Line: This is not a path for heedless going Last Line: Healing and peace toward the unwished-for tomorrow. Subject(s): Hiking; Wilderness REQUIEM FOR SONORA, by RICHARD SHELTON Poem Source First Line: A small child of a wind %stumbles toward me down the arroyo Last Line: Or whatever they choose to withhold %but oh my desert %yoursis the only death I cannot bear Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wilderness ROCKY ACRES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a wild land, country of my choice Subject(s): Wilderness RUGGEDNESS, by HOLLEY PERRY Poem Text First Line: I like the rugged things of life Last Line: Who toils with dirt all day. Subject(s): Wilderness STAYING ALIVE, by DAVID WAGONER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staying alive in the woods is a matter of calming down Subject(s): Forests; Survival; Wilderness; Woods STAYING ALIVE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staying alive in the woods is a matter of calming down Last Line: Then, chances are, you should be prepared to burrow %deep for a deep winter Subject(s): Forests; Survival; Wilderness THE ARMIES OF THE WILDERNESS (1863-4), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like snows the camps on southern hills Last Line: Of the funeral light. Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864) THE CALL OF THE WILD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Have you gazed on naked grandeur Last Line: And the wild is calling, calling. . .Let us go. Subject(s): Wilderness THE JOYS OF THE WILDERNESS, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a wish, and it is this, that in some uncouth glen Last Line: Will show to thee, why men like me, love the lone wilderness! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Wilderness THE JUNGLE WALLAH, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jungle wallah, he lives alone Last Line: When the jungle shall call him back. Subject(s): Animals; Jungles; Travel; Wilderness; Journeys; Trips THE MALAMUTE DOG OF ALASKA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Thou, ruler and slave of the frozen plain! Last Line: The snow-halls on valhalla's height. Subject(s): Alaska; Animals; Hunting; Wilderness; Wolves; Hunters THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When despair for the world grows in me Subject(s): Animals; Anxiety; Despair; Nature; Peace; Wilderness THE SUNDAY QUESTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! Shut the gardens! Lock the latticed gate! Last Line: But what is your opinion, mrs. Grundy? Variant Title(s): The Open Question Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Wilderness; Zoos THE TIMBER WOLVES, by IVAN SWIFT Poem Text First Line: We are the slaves of the timber land Last Line: The boss of care is the king of the world! Subject(s): Frost; Slavery; Snow; Wilderness; Wolves; Serfs THE WOLF CALL, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The cry of the wolf in the forest brings me comfort Last Line: And cry out my own loneliness. Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Hunger; Solitude; Wilderness; Wolves; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness THREE EPISTLES TO G. LLOYD ON A PASSAGE FROM HOMER'S ILIAD: 1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus homer, describing the pestilent lot Last Line: In the next I shall prove it, as clear as a whistle. Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Cruelty; Wilderness; Mules THREE EPISTLES TO G. LLOYD ON A PASSAGE FROM HOMER'S ILIAD: 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your consent I made bold to suppose, in my last Last Line: If it will not make sense in their own mother tongue. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Apollo; Dogs; Mythology - Classical; Wilderness; Animal Abuse; Vivisection TO A FLOCK OF GEESE, by CLARK MCADAMS Poem Text First Line: Ye wild, free troopers of the skies Last Line: With your wild-ringing cries. Subject(s): Feathers; Geese; Sky; Wilderness; Wings TUJUNGA, by ISABEL LEWIS Poem Text First Line: O'er sleepy valley's cherished shrine Last Line: Disturbing not the soul of thee. Subject(s): Wilderness WILD SEEDS, by STEFAN HERTMANS Poem Source First Line: You can, cringing against Last Line: And I think of wild seeds Subject(s): Seeds; Wilderness WILDERNESS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remoteness is its own secret. Not holiness Last Line: Unawares, as at the beaks of ravens Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Abandonment; Wilderness WILDERNESS MAN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whiskers a wren could nest in Subject(s): Mankind; Wilderness; Human Race YOU, FAILED PRONOUN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Direct address to the swans: you, whose feet Last Line: On a dark ground. Eft. Splash. Gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Birds; Spring; Swans; Wilderness; Wings |
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