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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COAST Matches Found: 219 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LONELY COAST, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A lonely coast, where sea-gulls scream for wrecks Last Line: Till, waking, found 'twas only what I dreamed. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore A POEM OF EXILE; FOR NELL ALTIZER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boat is always going by, set afloat Last Line: Alone along the looming foreign shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Boats; Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; Seashore; Travel; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips A SEA-SIDE IDYL, by ELIZABETH DREW (BARSTOW) STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered to the shore, nor knew I then Last Line: "farewell! Dull sands, and rocks, and sedge, farewell." Alternate Author Name(s): Stoddard, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Mattapoisett, Massachusetts; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore A SONG BY THE SHORE, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lose and love,' is love's first art Last Line: The strong surf sobbing! Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore A SOUTH COAST IDYLL, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath these sun-warm'd pines among the heather Last Line: And feel the wind of tresses unbeholden. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Nature; Nymphs; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore A STORY OF THE SEA-SHORE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought the long clear twilights of my home Last Line: For, though he slay me, I will trust in god. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Christianity; Death; Decay; God; Homecoming; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Seashore; Story-telling; Waiting; Childhood; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore AFTERNOON OF SAND, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like retarded water Subject(s): Seashore; Wind; Beach; Coast; Shore AMORETTI: 75, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: One day I wrote her name upon the strand Last Line: Our love shall live, and later life renew. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "her Name;our Love Shall Live;to Immortalise His Love;one Day I Wrote Her Name;eternizing Her;""one Day I Wrote Her Name Upon The Strand,""; Subject(s): Art & Artists; Immortality; Love; Names; Seashore; Thought; Beach; Coast; Shore; Thinking AN EVENING WALK BY THE SEA-SIDE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis pleasant to wander along on the sand Last Line: Alike of the universe speak him the lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Birds; Seashore; Seaweed; Beach; Coast; Shore ANNAPOLIS AT EVENING, by IVY LINDSLEY Poem Text First Line: Across the restless waters of the bay Last Line: Leave her in vanished glory, proud, devout. Subject(s): Cities; Life; Night; Seashore; Urban Life; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore AS PEBBLES IN THE SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Who shall judge man from his manner Last Line: But as pebbles in the sea Subject(s): Sea;seashore;stones; Ocean;beach;coast;shore;granite;rocks AT DIEPPE: 2. ON THE BEACH, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, a grey sky, a ghostly sea Last Line: Blots out the very hope of day. Subject(s): Dieppe, France; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore AT SAINTE-MARGUERITE, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gray [or, grey] tide flows and flounders in the rocks Subject(s): France; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore AT THE BEACH, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are they, those burrowing crustaceans, the ones Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore AT THE SEASIDE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I was down beside the sea Last Line: Till it could come no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Beside The Sea;a Child's Garden Of Verses: 3 Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore AUTUMN BY THE SEA, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll hear the uncompanioned murmur of the swell Last Line: Of life's encompassings. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore BEACH KITES, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a new way of being born? Subject(s): Seashore; Kites; Beach; Coast; Shore BLANK VERSE. WRITTEN ON THE SEA SHORE, by HANNAH COWLEY Poem Text First Line: Delicious morning! How thy gentle beams Last Line: All, all around is bliss -- the bliss of taste! Alternate Author Name(s): Matilda, Anna; Parkhouse, Hannah Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore BOAT PEOPLE, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After midnight they load up Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Seashore; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Beach; Coast; Shore BOATMEN OF THE SKY, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The south-bound geese sail honking past Last Line: Grim boatmen of the sky. Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore BY THE PACIFIC OCEAN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here room and kingly silence keep Last Line: Their ghosts illume my lurid west. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore BY THE SEA-SHORE, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The curved strand / of cool, gray sand Last Line: That one such day has ever been. Subject(s): Marblehead, Massachusetts; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore BY THE SEASHORE (FRAGMENT), by WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the reedy margin of the shore Last Line: Not grieved and not elate. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore BY THE TYRRHENE SEA, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherd folds his white Last Line: I fold my thought of thee. Subject(s): Love; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore CALIFORNIA COAST, by DORIS CALDWELL Poem Text First Line: Not in small painted towns whose color rips Last Line: And lost wings circling near a ghost-white star. Subject(s): California; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore CHILDREN, THE SANDBAR, THAT SUMMER, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight the tall women may never have seen Subject(s): Seashore; Children; Beach; Coast; Shore; Childhood COAST SCENERY, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: These iron-rifted cliffs, that o'er the deep Last Line: Its caverned base, the ocean's melancholy thunder? Subject(s): Ireland; Landscape; Seashore; Irish; Beach; Coast; Shore CONEY ISLAND BY NIGHT, by GUSTAV DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: City of dreams, / I watch you from the ocean's edge tonight Last Line: Forever and forever. ... Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City; Dreams; Seashore; Nightmares; Beach; Coast; Shore CORONADO, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the beach at coronado curves the shore in crescent wise Last Line: Curves to met the benediction of the californian skies. Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Night; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Stars; Nightmares; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore CORSONS INLET, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went for a walk over the dunes again this morning Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): New Jersey; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore DENOUEMENT, by ELIZABETH LOU SELLERS Poem Text First Line: Your shoulders were so neatly square Last Line: But, darling, I loathe knobby knees. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore DICHTER-HERZ, by MOISHE NADIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the sand through which the waters of the spring Last Line: As they drink the water I have made clear for them. Subject(s): Seashore; Spring; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore DOVER BEACH, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm to-night Last Line: Where ignorant armies clash by night. Subject(s): Desire; Doubt; Dover, England; England; Faith; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seashore; Social Protest; Time; War; Skepticism; English; Belief; Creed; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Theology; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore DOWN AT THE DOCKS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down at the docks-when the smoke clouds lie Last Line: With a secret tide to a secret sea. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore DREAM SHIP, by MARY E. HILL Poem Text First Line: My dream ship sails on strange, uncharted sea Last Line: In life, and going on, I grow dismayed. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore DRIFTWOOD, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: God's castoff sculpture on the lesser scale Last Line: Gesture, these crumbling continents, god's juvenilia. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; God; Sculpture & Sculptors; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore EAST ANGLIAN BATHE, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh when the early morning at the seaside Subject(s): East Anglia, England; Resorts; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore EASTERN LONG ISLAND, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beach grass tangled by wind--the sound rushes Last Line: Reclamation by the proximate meek, who shall inherit. Subject(s): Long Island (n.y.); Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore EVENING STORM - NIPIGON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the beach, with low, quick, mournful sob Last Line: And so the day before its time is dead. Subject(s): Seashore; Storms; Beach; Coast; Shore FARTHER SHORES, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Their ships sailed on-sailed on; was left Last Line: Whose ships sailed on and far away. Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore FENCES, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mouths full of laughter Subject(s): Seashore; Labor & Laborers; Social Classes; Beach; Coast; Shore; Work; Workers; Caste FINISTERRE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was the land's end: the last fingers, knuckled and rheumatic, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cliffs; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore FISHERMEN (THE JERSEY COAST), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They stand as still as shapes in bronze Last Line: The crush and roar of modern lifeand christ in galilee! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; New Jersey; Seashore; Anglers; Beach; Coast; Shore FLIGHTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: English herons brought for sport to a new land Last Line: For worlds of outer space? Subject(s): Explorers; Herons; Seashore; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Beach; Coast; Shore FLOOD TIDE, by ALAN CREIGHTON Poem Text First Line: Across a swirl of covered beach Last Line: And sniffs the coming sea. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore FOR A POSTCARD OF MY MOTHER AT THE BEACH, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My oyster weeps the pearls of denouement Subject(s): Seashore; Women - Old Age; Beach; Coast; Shore FOR THE NEW YEAR 1791, by HENRY JAMES PYE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from the bosom of the mine Last Line: Unbought by scenes of woe, and undefil'd with blood. Subject(s): Explorers; French Revolution (1789); Holidays; New Year; Pitt, William, The Younger (1759-1806); Seashore; Trade; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Beach; Coast; Shore FROM THE CABRILLO AT SANTA BARBARA, by EMILY WILSON SANDER Poem Text First Line: One by one the white cohorts advance Last Line: In the sun, with garlands in her hair. Subject(s): Mountains; Seashore; Waves; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Beach; Coast; Shore GENTLY ON THE STREAM OF TIME, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gently on the stream of time Last Line: On life's journey going home. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore GEOGRAPHY AS WARNING, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wildcat drilling started in 1919, the year Last Line: Wrecks containing treasure, the flowering skull. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore GOLD COAST CUSTOMS, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One fantee wave Last Line: For the fires of god go marching on. Subject(s): Customs, Social; Gold Coast, Africa GOSPORT BEACH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On gosport beach I landed Last Line: "sweet lass, I'll marry you" Subject(s): London;seashore; Beach;coast;shore GRAY MOOD, by MARJORIE AKERMAN B. Poem Text First Line: Long, sweep Last Line: And the slow waves sing. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore HAMPTON BEACH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight glitters keen and bright Last Line: Of this brief thoughtful hour of musing by the sea. Subject(s): Hampton, New Hampshire; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore HENDECASYLLABLES, by D. M. LOW Poem Text First Line: Come children, come away, to where the tawny Last Line: Playing, dancing away the careless evening. Subject(s): Children; Oxford University; Seashore; Childhood; Beach; Coast; Shore HIBISCUS ON SLEEPING SHORES, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say now, fernando, that on that day Subject(s): Seashore; Moths; Beach; Coast; Shore HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 3. THE LOOM OF LONDON, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange far lives, manifold, each from the other Last Line: "and again whispers to the walls of the unheeding city ""life." Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): London; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 4. THE QUEEN'S SONS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tide of the sea-listen, its breathing voice is triumphant Last Line: "mine are thy sons!' he calls to thee, 'queen, rejoice in my children.'" Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 5. THE DARK VISION, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But the sea is immortal, he knows nothing, he cannot / divine Last Line: First he found thee and crowned thee in waste dominions a queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Mothers; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Beach; Coast; Shore HIKING TOWARD LAUGHING GULL POINT, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw a gull catch a bait in midair Last Line: A hook, the end of the line. Subject(s): Investments; Sea; Seashore; Stocks; Bonds; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore HIS NAME WAS KEKO, by THEODORE BRIDGMAN Poem Text First Line: Under the kiawe he lies - Last Line: Sleep well -- little keko -- Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Seashore; Speech Disorders; Beach; Coast; Shore; Stuttering; Muteness HYMN OF PROGRESS, by BYRDIE L. MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Dauntless as the pioneers / that pressed Last Line: Moving, ever, with the dawn. Subject(s): Pioneers; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore IF SOMETHING SHOULD HAPPEN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For instance / if the sea should break Subject(s): Erosion; Seashore; Tides; Beach; Coast; Shore IMPRESSIONS, by JEAN MUTTER Poem Text First Line: Cold gray mist, o'er a gray sea swelling Last Line: A ship in the mist, at break of day. Subject(s): Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore IN GUERNSEY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heavenly bay, ringed round with cliffs and moors Last Line: Beloved and blest. Subject(s): Guernsey; Night; Roundels; Sea; Seashore; Bedtime; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore IN THE BAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Last Line: No sunrise and no sunset marks their day. Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Seashore; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore INLAND SEAS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a majesty in fields of wheat Last Line: The beauty of an ocean night anew. Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Seashore; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Beach; Coast; Shore JANUARY NIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In front of me on my desk Last Line: And climb towards the sun Subject(s): January; Night; Seashore; Storms; Winter; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore JEKYL ISLAND; EBB TIDE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fading light on a lonely beach Last Line: And frets the silted sand. Subject(s): Islands; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore JOHN JONES: 3. ON THE SANDS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was nothing at all in the case (con Last Line: Till one night -- 'is god off now? Or on? Subject(s): Love; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore JUST BELOW THE SURFACE, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just below the surface, fish, still Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore KALALOCH, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bleached wood massed in bone piles Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Seashore; Lesbians; Beach; Coast; Shore LAKE LOUISE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that when the master jeweler Last Line: As if a finger on their lips were laid! Subject(s): Lakes; Peace; Seashore; Silence; Pools; Ponds; Beach; Coast; Shore LATE AFTERNOON, ST. JOHN, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little blue heron has landed Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore LEAVING HARBOR, by ISLA PASCHAL RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: A sandy beach, shell - strewn, where jellyfish Last Line: A fearless, stately ship puts out to sea! Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore LIFE ON THE LAKES: ALONGSHORE, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The storm swings over the waters wide Last Line: "off the menrunning highgoing fastgetting thick." Subject(s): Seashore; Storms; Beach; Coast; Shore LIFE ON THE LAKES: DOWN ON THE BEACH (1), by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The storm-light fades from the cloud-banked west Last Line: The far lamp glows. Subject(s): Seashore; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips LIMITLESS SUPPLY, by ALICE TROXWELL MCCOUN Poem Text First Line: How often have I watched an ocean wave Last Line: Then lay our garnered fruitage at his feet. Subject(s): Seashore; Waves; Beach; Coast; Shore LINCOLNSHIRE SHORES (AT MABLETHORPE), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here often, when a child, I lay reclined Last Line: Dim shores, dense rains, and heavy-clouded sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore LITTLE SOPHY BY THE SEASIDE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young sophy leads a life without alloy Last Line: No greed dispute the freedom of the sand. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore MAKE YOURSELF INVISIBLE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drew islands with palm trees Subject(s): Seashore; Family Life; Beach; Coast; Shore; Relatives MEETING AT NIGHT, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gray sea and the long black land Last Line: Than the two hearts, beating each to each. Variant Title(s): Meeting;night And Morning Subject(s): Innocence; Love; Night; Sea; Seashore; Bedtime; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore MERCY, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the harbor breaths of smoke Last Line: A wrinkle on the water. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Grief; Mythology - Classical; Seashore; Sickness; Women's Rights; Sorrow; Sadness; Beach; Coast; Shore; Illness; Feminism MISSION BEACH, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Of old it lay without a name - unplaced Last Line: To dedicate today joy's high event. Subject(s): Seashore; Time; Beach; Coast; Shore MONMOUTH SANDS, by HENRY NEHEMIAH DODGE Poem Text First Line: On monmouth sands the full tides rise and fall Last Line: And weave the lasting fabric of our life. Subject(s): Seashore; Towns; Beach; Coast; Shore MUSINGS, by MICHAEL J. CAMPIONE Poem Text First Line: Have ever you sat by a midnight shore Last Line: Were always, and will always be? Subject(s): Seashore; Water; Waves; Beach; Coast; Shore NEITHER OUT FAR NOR IN DEEP, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The people along the sand Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore NEW YORK BAY AT DUSK, by MILDRED I. MCNEAL Poem Text First Line: Now comes the fragrant night in from the sea Last Line: In the safe care of thought and time and truth. Subject(s): Islands; New York Harbor; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore NEW YORK IN SUNSET, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The island city of dominion stands Last Line: And hers the fame of babylon and tyre. Subject(s): Islands; New York City; Seashore; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Beach; Coast; Shore NOON: AMAGANSETT BEACH, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory -- glory to god in the highest -- and on earth Last Line: Upon the everlasting waters, upon the everlasting ways. Subject(s): Amagansett, New York; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore NORTH AMERICAN SEQUENCE: MEDITATION AT OYSTER RIVER, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the low, barnacled, elephant-colored rocks Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore NOSTALGIA, by LAURA M. GRADICK Poem Text First Line: I am homesick for the ocean Last Line: And my humble, seaside home! Subject(s): Homesickness; Nostalgia; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore NOVEMBER BEACH, by ALAN CREIGHTON Poem Text First Line: With swoop of open chase Last Line: No walls make peace! Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore OCEAN BEACH, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Evading headlong breakers, ocean beach Last Line: With roses trailing down its tilted lanes. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON A SOUTHERN BEACH, by W. A. GODWARD Poem Text First Line: Far endless stretches of bright yellow sand Last Line: We shall have this with which to compensate! Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON RE-VISITING THE SEA-SHORE, AFTER LONG ABSENCE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God be with thee, gladsome ocean Last Line: I cannot die, if life be love. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE BEACH, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We lay together on the beach Last Line: And on my lips are the salt lips of the sea. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE BEACH, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uncountable tiny pebbles Subject(s): Nature; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE BEACH AT EVENING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Out on the beach at evening, under the shining stars Last Line: And the mute stars shine above the brine through the precious, priceless hours. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE BEACH AT FONTANA, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind whines and whines the shingle Last Line: Ache of love Subject(s): Fathers; Love; Men; Prayer; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE BEACH; LINES BY A PRIVATE TUTOR, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the young augustus edward Last Line: Which I bought for one and sixpence on the beach. Subject(s): Seashore; Souvenirs; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE COAST NEAR SAUSALITO, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I won't say much for the sea Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE COAST OF COROMANDEL, by FRANCIS OSBERT SACHEVERELL SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Sitwell, Sir Osbert; Sitwell, Osbert Subject(s): Coromandel Coast, India ON THE DUNES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there there is any life when death is over Subject(s): Seashore; Future Life; Beach; Coast; Shore; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ON THE LAST DAY OF THE WORLD, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As usual, the guard who worked Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE SAND, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: Do ghost lobsters mock this scrap Last Line: Knowing lobsters, traps, and me. Subject(s): Hunting; Irony; Lobsters; Seashore; Hunters; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE SAND DUNES, by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD Poem Text First Line: Oh! The sand dunes are warm Last Line: To weep by the salt sea shore. Subject(s): Dunes; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE SHORE, by MARY CROSS Poem Text First Line: A glow of crimson glory floods the west Last Line: Where deeds like stars may glow. Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore ON THE STRAND, by GREGOIRE LE ROY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lie on the sand and thro' thy fingers drain Last Line: To fall and mingle on the eternal strand. Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Seashore; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Beach; Coast; Shore ONCE BY THE PACIFIC, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shattered water made a misty din Last Line: "before god's last ""put out the light"" was spoken." Subject(s): Judgment Day; Pacific Ocean; Seashore; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Beach; Coast; Shore POWER FAILURE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking the shore, augustine hoped to comprehend Last Line: The mist will rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Beachcombers; Seashore; Weather; Beach; Coast; Shore QUARTET, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A landscape familiar but always strange Subject(s): Landscape; Seashore; Tourists; Beach; Coast; Shore RALEGH'S PRIZES, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And summer turns her head with its dark tangle Subject(s): Summer; Seashore; Amusement Parks; Beach; Coast; Shore RECORD CROWD AT BEACHES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Delicatessen and carnival, the beach Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore RHODE ISLAND, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here at the seashore they use the clouds over & over Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Rhode Island; Seashore; Summer; Beach; Coast; Shore RISING, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the government offices the rules and regulations Last Line: That the house is going out with the tide. Subject(s): Birds; Erosion; Gulls; Seashore; Waves; Seagulls; Beach; Coast; Shore RIVER BATHERS, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was no paradise Last Line: The grass and rusting iron furniture. Subject(s): Rivers; Seashore; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful women in smoky blue culottes Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; San Diego, California; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Women; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 2. OUTSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A ROCKING..., by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full 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 SAND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sterile sister though I be Last Line: Breathing immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Immortality; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 3. THE SANDS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shalllow pools of water Last Line: Oozing upwards slowly in the dark wind-wrinkled sand. Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Wind; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore SAND DUNES, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea waves are green and wet Last Line: For the one more cast off shell. Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Poetry & Poets; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Beach; Coast; Shore SANDY BEACH AT CRANE CREEK, by LEONARD KRESS Poem Text First Line: There are no cranes in these marshes, there never were Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore SANDY HOOK, by GEORGE WASHINGTON WRIGHT HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White sand and cedars; cedars, sand Last Line: Rattling their life-boats down the sand! Subject(s): Seashore; Towns; Beach; Coast; Shore SANTA BARBARA BEACH, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now while the sunset offers Last Line: "shall feed my wells with tears." Subject(s): Santa Barbara, California; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore SEASHORE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over her great museum of lost nations Subject(s): Seashore; Girls; Sunbathing; Beach; Coast; Shore SEASHORE (2), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here chimes no clock, no pedant calendar Last Line: And give my guest eternal afternoon. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore SEASIDE, by JOHN J. KERRIGAN Poem Text First Line: The place is empty Last Line: Over gray stone. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore SEX, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see the bare feet on the warm boardwalk Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore SHEKLA: A VISION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Shekla's magic island lay Last Line: Writes this tale of shekla here. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Heaven; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Paradise; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore SHIPS AT ANCHOR, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I love to watch them rocking to and fro Last Line: To find the rushing high-ways of the sea. Subject(s): Anchors; Harbors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips SHORE LINE, by LENA HALL Poem Text First Line: When the dry land appeared, and seas were called Last Line: That god made not a man -- and then a shore! Subject(s): Creation; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore SHORE PICNIC, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The whole vast shelving shore serves for our / platter Last Line: Green-furred and root enfolding. Subject(s): Picnics; Seashore; Barbecues; Beach; Coast; Shore SHORE-SPELL, by RICHARD CALLAN Poem Text First Line: A spell is woven Last Line: Only the rugged pine trees know. Subject(s): Seashore; Wind; Beach; Coast; Shore SIMILE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This heart I found at low tide this morning Subject(s): Seashore; Detritus; Beach; Coast; Shore SITTING ON THE SHORE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tide has ebbed away Last Line: Till then, thou, father -- wilt our spirits keep. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore SKETCH, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Crooked gnarled cedars fringe grey sea Last Line: More, more, more! Subject(s): Seashore; Waves; Beach; Coast; Shore SKIN CANCER, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Balmy overcast nights of late september Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore SNOW COME, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her tongue mimicked the color of her bikini Last Line: The sun-bleached, primeval hoops of teeth. Variant Title(s): Snow Cone Subject(s): Desire; Seashore; Story-telling; Beach; Coast; Shore SONG OF THE SHIPS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great ships go a-shouldering Last Line: And sail no more, no more! Subject(s): Decay; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Rot; Decadence; Beach; Coast; Shore SONNET, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not so! You stand as long ago a king Last Line: With that soft woman's hand? Nay, love, not so. Subject(s): Love; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore STANZAS ADDRESSED TO SOME FRIEND GOING TO THE SEA-SIDE, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since summer invites you to visit once more Last Line: Those joys which on you in reality wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Seashore; Vacation; Beach; Coast; Shore STONES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small yellow stones Last Line: Of an unfoaming far unvisioned sea. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Seashore; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore STRANGE HARBORS, by EDITH CHANDLER HAUBOLD Poem Text First Line: Let me set sail for strange harbors Last Line: And strange new harbors, in remembered eyes. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore SUMMER CONSTELLATIONS, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are sorry, they bring up umbrellas Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore SUNRISE FROM THE JERSEY SHORE, FR. ECHOES AND REALITIES, by WALTER PRICHARD EATON Poem Text First Line: Across the salt-cool, restless river way Last Line: To clothe thy bareness in her morning lights! Subject(s): Dawn; Seashore; Sunrise; Beach; Coast; Shore SURF, by ISRAEL NEWMAN Poem Text First Line: Sea-ache, and sea-scent, and the welter of white Last Line: Of wave-heaps trailing tresses drowned in green! Subject(s): Sea; Seashore; Surfing; Water; Waves; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore THE BATHERS, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can there be women alone and no serpent near? Subject(s): Seashore; Women; Desire; Beach; Coast; Shore THE BEACH, by DAVID O'NEIL Poem Text First Line: The chill clung to the water Last Line: On snowy mornings. Subject(s): Seashore; Winter; Beach; Coast; Shore THE BEACH IN AUGUST, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The day the fat woman Last Line: Condition. The tide goes in and goes out Subject(s): Seashore; Transience; Aging; Body, Human; Beach; Coast; Shore; Impermanence THE BEACH OF ACRE, by MARY BRENT WHITESIDE Poem Text First Line: The camel train moves slowly in the dawn Last Line: Godfrey of bouillon, a remembered name. Subject(s): Camels; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE BEACH PICNIC, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I went down to the outing sea Last Line: No place for beaus. Subject(s): Picnics; Seashore; Barbecues; Beach; Coast; Shore THE CASE OF EDGAR ABBOTT AND PHILIP RIDD, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was edgar alvin abbott, who had Last Line: "leaping bravely to her rescue, cried: ""I'ii save you!"" and he did." Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Lifeguards; Seashore; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore; Swimmers THE CLIFF-TOP, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cliff-top has a carpet Last Line: The sea beneath my feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE DOGS AT LIVE OAK BEACH, SANTA CRUZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: As if there could be a world Last Line: Does your smeared forehead out-top the gracious mountain? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE FARTHER SHORE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: We gazed far out upon the lonely main Last Line: And guide my vessel o'er this sea to her! Subject(s): Absence; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Separation; Isolation; Beach; Coast; Shore THE FESTA, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen a vision pure Last Line: That fair scene by that fair shore. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE FISHER'S BOY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My life is like a stroll upon the beach Last Line: And I converse with many a shipwrecked crew. Variant Title(s): Upon The Beach Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE FOREIGN SAILOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is what I heard from a foreign sailor Last Line: Whispering, and gesturing with lean, dark hands! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Water; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore THE FORTUNATE ISLANDS; A DREAM IN JUNE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In twilight of the longest day Last Line: And wakened half the world with me! Subject(s): Islands; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore THE HAUNTED BEACH, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a lonely desert beach Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE LADY IN ORANGE COUNTY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful lady, loops of country road Subject(s): Seashore; Beauty; Beach; Coast; Shore THE MERMAID OF MARGATE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On margate beach, where the sick one roams Last Line: With the spirit of peter fin! Subject(s): Biffen, Sarah (1784-1850); Margate, England; Mermaids & Mermen; Puns; Seashore; Biffin, Sarah; Beach; Coast; Shore THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMPTIES INTO THE GULF, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the gulf enters the sea and so forth Subject(s): Mississippi River; Past; Rivers; Seashore; Time; Beach; Coast; Shore THE MIST AND THE SEA, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mist crept in from the sea Last Line: The mist crept back to the sea. Subject(s): Mist; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore THE NORTH SHORE WATCH, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things are lovely as they were, and still Last Line: With phosphorescent gleams, and dark oars dropping light. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Nature; Seashore; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore THE OLD SEAPORT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winds were wailing round me Last Line: The wild seas made reply. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Culross, Perthsire, Scotland; Death; Funerals - At Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Seashore; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Beach; Coast; Shore THE ONSET; A CALIFORNIA BEACH, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wet sands were grey-blue that afternoon Last Line: Love can defy. Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; California; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE PATH OF GOLD, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Dawn on the world's new shores. The path Last Line: O path of gold to human destiny! Subject(s): Freedom; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Liberty; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore THE PHANTOM LINER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The fog lay deep on georges bank Last Line: Into the fog again Subject(s): Fog;seashore;ships - Abandoning Of;tides;waves; Haze;beach;coast;shore THE PIMPERNEL, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She walks beside the silent shore- Last Line: Forgotten, is the pimpernel. Subject(s): Flowers; Longing; Love; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE PINES AND THE SEA, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the low marsh-meadows and the beach Last Line: The mournful strain was in thyself alone. Subject(s): Pine Trees; Seashore; Soul; Trees; Beach; Coast; Shore THE PIRATEER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The lightning flashed and thunder crashed Last Line: Lay still in a secret sea. Subject(s): Pirates; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Piracy; Buccaneers; Beach; Coast; Shore THE REEF, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most graceful of misunderstandings Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE RISING TIDE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An idle man, I stroll at eve Last Line: And still the lessening light is sweet. Subject(s): Evening; Seashore; Tides; Walking; Sunset; Twilight; Beach; Coast; Shore THE SAND PLAINS OF NEW JERSEY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These sandy wastes are tributes to a mighty past Last Line: That won a splendid victory o'er ploughing main. Subject(s): Life; New Jersey; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore THE SEA-SHORE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should like to dwell where the deep blue sea Last Line: And I ask no home but beside the deep. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE SEASIDE, IN AND OUT OF FASHION, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In summer-time it was a paradise Last Line: Comes down the sea-wind on the golden hair. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE SHORE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So the tide forgets, as morning Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE SKY-GYPSY, by WALTER BARDECK Poem Text First Line: I long / to sweep the sky Last Line: On some strange shore. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Seashore; Nightmares; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore THE SPIRIT OF THE NORTH, by OSCAR WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: The sea blood slumbering in our veins Last Line: That the old north spirit moves again. Subject(s): North, The; Seashore; Waves; Beach; Coast; Shore THE SURF, by JURGIS BALTRUSHAITIS Poem Text First Line: The day's wild ocean sings and thunders Last Line: On hour in restless monotone. Alternate Author Name(s): Baltrushaitis, George; Baltrushaitis, Iurgis; Baltrushaitis, Yurgis Subject(s): Floods; Seashore; Surfing; Thunder; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore THE TEAL'S WING, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the tide line above the dead Subject(s): Animals; Death; Seashore; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 1, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not sin, in this half-playful strain Last Line: "we'll pitch this tent of ours in type another year." Subject(s): Fields, James T. (1817-1881); New Hampshire; Seashore; Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); Beach; Coast; Shore THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 2. THE WRECK OF RIVERMOUTH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rivermouth rocks are fair to see Last Line: Mingled in peace like the night and day! Subject(s): Disasters; Hampton, New Hampshire; Seashore; Shipwrecks; Witchcraft & Witches; Beach; Coast; Shore THE TRUTH, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now, / the horse is entering Subject(s): Seashore; Horses; God; Beach; Coast; Shore THE VASSAL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind of the north, o far, wild wind Last Line: They claim me vassal yet! Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WAITING SEA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The children built a barrier of sand Last Line: "do you not see the breastwork we have made?" Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: THE SHORE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can it be women that walk in the sea-mist under the cliffs there? Last Line: The sorrow whose sound is the wind, and the roar of the limitless sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Netherlands; Seashore; Travel; Holland; Dutch People; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips THE WELLESLEY FLOAT, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Swan-like in grace and rhythm-like in motion Last Line: The pageant closes, and the scene is bare. Subject(s): Boats; Canoes And Canoeing; Navigation; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WIND IS BLOWING WEST, by JOSEPH CERAVOLO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am trying to decide to go swimming Last Line: Just going in Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WINTER SHORE, by THOMAS WADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mighty change it is, and ominous Last Line: Reigneth omnipotent. Subject(s): Seashore; Seasons; Water; Wind; Winter; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WIZARD, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere, nobody knows Last Line: And the bones drift by with a rustling sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Mystery; Seashore; Tragedy; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WONDERFUL FISHING OF PETERKIN SPRAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fisherman bold was peterkin spray Last Line: And he sailed and he sailed and he sailed away. Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Sailing & Sailors; Salmon; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THREE WASH DRAWINGS: 2. SURF, by WINIFRED WALDRON Poem Text First Line: Wild white legions of foam! Last Line: Ever the living pursuing the dying. Subject(s): Seashore; Surfing; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore TIDE TURNING, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through salt marsh, grassy channel where the shark's Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Seashore; Tides; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents; Beach; Coast; Shore TIDES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here to the sweep of the shore Last Line: Shall send to pilot thee. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Tides; Wales; Water; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore; Welshmen; Welshwomen TIDEWATER, by BEATRICE WITTE RAVENEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were the burned sand of aeaea Last Line: Of carolina. Variant Title(s): Coasts Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore TO YOU, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts are little boats Last Line: It is my thought of you. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Romance; Seashore; Separation; Isolation; Beach; Coast; Shore TOOTHPASTE KIDS SUNBURN, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I tell you I will not make any more raids Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE COAST OF LIGURIA, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand years are nothing Last Line: And crown their slopes with gladness. Subject(s): Christianity; Daphne (mythology); Modern Life; Religion; Seashore; Theology; Beach; Coast; Shore TWO LOVERS AND A BEACHCMBER BY THE RED SEA, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold and final, the imagination Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore UNDER THE WHARF, by IDA COLE BARTLATT Poem Text First Line: Silurus shoals and water butterflies Last Line: Rising from this dark flood to seek eternal breath? Subject(s): Birds; Death; Floods; Gulls; Seashore; Water; Dead, The; Seagulls; Beach; Coast; Shore UNDINE: THE SONG OF THE UNDINES OR WATER-SPIRITS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We dwell in the depths of the opaline sea Last Line: Are but for a day! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Rest; Seashore; Storms; Beach; Coast; Shore UP AGAINST THE SEA, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the foot of the cliff, the sea is taking back Subject(s): Seashore; Erosion; Beach; Coast; Shore VACATION: CALIFORNIA COAST, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe it's because we're all born into this world Last Line: Splitting, and wedding, and breaking, and healing Subject(s): Divorce; Healing; Seashore; Water; Cures; Beach; Coast; Shore VANISHING JOY, by ROY WALTER JAMES Poem Text First Line: I went down to the beach to play Last Line: To woe within a looking glass. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore VARIATIONS ON A THEME, by ALFRED GOLDSWORTHY BAILEY Poem Text First Line: If charon drove a hearse along the beach Last Line: And then be gone? Subject(s): Charon; Hearses; Seashore; Styx (river); Beach; Coast; Shore VERSES TO SOME FRIENDS RETURNING FROM THE SEA-SIDE, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forget not the moments Last Line: Yours on the morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore WAIKIKI, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the famous beach in honolulu a small japanese girl cried and cried Last Line: Made and funneled up the billion particles into a mound. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Honolulu; Seashore; Travel; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips WAR, by ETHEL GODFREY LOUD Poem Text First Line: We changed our route to visit it again Last Line: That's war! Subject(s): Guests; Seashore; War; Visiting; Beach; Coast; Shore WAVE, by MARK JARMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always offshore, or already broken, gone Subject(s): Nature; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore WAVES AND TIDES, by JOHN RENWICK TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: In sweep the waves to wash the sands Last Line: Of laughing ever after. Subject(s): Laughter; Sea; Seashore; Tides; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore WE LYING BY SEASAND, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We lying by seasand, watching yellow Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore WHITSUN, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not what I meant: Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Picnics; Seashore; Barbecues; Beach; Coast; Shore WHY ALL GOOD MUSIC IS SAD, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before I knew that I would die Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore WINTER; THE JERSEY COAST, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the river's level sheet of ice Last Line: Loom hostelries whose summer guests have flown. Subject(s): New Jersey; Seashore; Winter; Beach; Coast; Shore WISHES, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Could I, with joshua of old Last Line: We shall be cruising still. Subject(s): Cruise Ships; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore WRITTEN ON THE SEA-SHORE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How awful, how sublime this view Last Line: And now an awful stillness reigns around. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore |
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