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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DROUGHT Matches Found: 73 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DROUGHT IDYLL, by GEORGE ESSEX EVANS Poem Text First Line: It was the middle of the drought; the ground was hot and bare Last Line: "my word!"" he said, ""it's up to me to feed on this meself!" Subject(s): Cattle; Drinks & Drinking; Drought; Story-telling; Wine A PRAIRIE MIRACLE, by GRACE WELSH LUTGEN Poem Text First Line: The river's dwindled to a creek under the red sun's glare Last Line: Relives that scene at nain. Subject(s): Drought; Prairies; Rain; Plains A RHYME OF THE WEST, by FREDERICK WILLIAM OPHEL Poem Text First Line: It was reuben steel that led the way, and his mate was palmer jake Last Line: That the wandering winds might ring at will a requiem for the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Prospect Good; Ophel, F. W. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Friendship; Sacrifices; Dead, The AFTER DROUGHT, by ALTA BOOTH DUNN Poem Source First Line: Now come the quiet days of cloud Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life AFTER GREAT DROUGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The rain gropes with delicate pushing fingers Last Line: The world's as sweet as a rose: a rain-wet rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Drought; Flowers; God; Hope; Rain; Roses; Optimism ALONG THE ROAD TO STONE LAKE: 1, by SU SHIH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Throw on rouge and powder, watch the governor pass Last Line: At dusk I met an old man lying drunk beside the road. Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Variant Title(s): Along The Road To Stone Lake (1078) Subject(s): Drought; Leadership; Rain ALONG THE ROAD TO STONE LAKE: 3, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Soft grasses, a plain of sedge fresh with passing rain Last Line: Your governor, long ago, lived in a place like this Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Drought; Leadership; Rain AUGUST, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: August days are hot and still Last Line: August is too hot for play! Subject(s): Drought; Summer; Sun CA'LINE'S PRAYER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have got old Last Line: And set me in the rivers of your glory Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Rivers; Water CA'LINE'S PRAYER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have got old Last Line: And set me in the rivers of your glory %ye ma jah Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food And Eating; Rivers; Water CALIFORNIAN, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It began like this: a radio Subject(s): Summer; Drought; Death; Songs; Dead, The CANE: NOVEMBER COTTON FLOWER, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boll-weevil's coming, and the winter's cold Last Line: Beauty so sudden for that time of year. Variant Title(s): November Cotton Flower Subject(s): Cotton; Drought; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers CHILDREN'S RAIN SONGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O the rain drop drop drop Last Line: Whatever there is to eat Subject(s): Drought;jews;mysticism - Judaism;rain; Judaism CLANDESTINE LOVE, by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two poplars rose for years Last Line: Their roots embraced. Subject(s): Drought CROSSING THE DESERT, by MYLES A. J. RHYNES Poem Text First Line: Silently the desert spreads beneath the Last Line: The spanish suns setting, the evening shadows bow. Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Solitude; Loneliness CRY OF THE HILLS, by ELEANOR YOUNG ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: Quiescent under the brazen sky Last Line: "send us the rain, lord, send us the rain!" Subject(s): Drought DEAD-HORSE GATE, by RODERIC JOSEPH QUINN Poem Text First Line: The track that ran through hunthaway Last Line: Along the lachlan-side. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Drought; Horses; Legends; Dead, The DEEPER THAN DROUGHT, by MARION LOUISE BLISS Poem Full Text First Line: Now a long crowd of darknesses Subject(s): Drought; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DESCRIPTION OF THE LAND, by JIM JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Nothing but sea bottom until the drought. Then what we now know Last Line: Continues Subject(s): Drought DESERT PARABLE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miles above them, miles below Last Line: Than night Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Canyons; Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat DESERT SCULPTURES, by HENRY J. MORRO Poem Source First Line: We go back to the desert Last Line: Our sweat %carving the earth Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food And Eating; Heat; Sun DESERT WIFE, by NELLIE COOLEY ALDER Poem Text First Line: I have shed cold tears so sterile they were saltless Last Line: How can such fruitless years in any manner magnify my god? Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DROUGHT, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day in, day out, dust devils dance Last Line: Peace, and you in my arms again! Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Drought; Longing; Love DROUGHT, by KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER Poem Source First Line: Dirt, always Last Line: Through field after field after field Subject(s): Drought DROUGHT, by MARY F. COCHRANE Poem Text First Line: Oh, can't I help, poor four - legg'd, sad scarecrow? Last Line: Your strained heart breaks here at its poor goal's brink. Subject(s): Drought DROUGHT, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had never before seen anything die Last Line: Of water too cruel to be spoken aloud Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Death - Animals; Drought DROUGHT, by DIANE FORDHAM Poem Source First Line: Grey sky Last Line: Or was that, week before last? Subject(s): Drought DROUGHT, by SALLY LOGAN Poem Source First Line: My first summer of marriage Last Line: Until my husband trapped it, then let it go Subject(s): Drought; Heat; Marriage; Summer DROUGHT, by J. G. MOCOANCOENG Poem Source First Line: When the sun is hot, it is burning Last Line: It is true god has heard us %look, it moves! Subject(s): Drought DROUGHT - 1936, by MILDRED MCGINN DOYLE Poem Text First Line: The day winds are cruel winds Last Line: Prayers for god's gift of rain. Subject(s): Drought DROUGHT HARVEST, by ALTA BOOTH DUNN Poem Source First Line: I am the drought-tormented sod Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life DROUGHT IN SUMMER, by SARAH MIDDLETON SIMPSON Poem Text First Line: Kentucky june should be Last Line: On the hills the birds sang. Subject(s): Drought DROUGHT IN WEST TEXAS, by JESSICA MOREHEAD YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Earth is sere and scorched and dry Last Line: Bringing life to earth again. Subject(s): Drought DROUGHT YEAR, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: I dreamed I slept alone in a drought year Last Line: In crumbled soi, %wait for rain Subject(s): Drought; Ranch Life DROUTH, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Drouth, of an hunger famished Last Line: Dews by no dawn dispersed. Subject(s): Drought DROUTH, by C. E. SHUFORD Poem Text First Line: Heat is big-breasted Last Line: She laughs until morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Shuford, Gene Subject(s): Drought DROUTH WILL BE ENDED, by GLADYS NAOMI ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: Aged prophets tell of the weather omens Last Line: Drouth will be ended. Subject(s): Drought DRY SEPTEMBER, by ELIZABETH CONRAD VANBUSKIRK Poem Source First Line: It has been not raining Last Line: We must go to war Subject(s): Drought; Thirst DUST-BOWL, by DAISY LEMON COLDIRON Poem Text First Line: Out of the murky west Last Line: And the bones of a kiowa! Subject(s): Drought; Dust END OF DROUTH, by GEORGIA MOORE EBERLING Poem Text First Line: The healing rains have come, and once again Last Line: And meadow-larks fling out their happy lay. Subject(s): Colorado (state); Drought FOLLOWING THE RHYMES OF SHAO-PAO HUANG'S POEM, by YANG SHIH-CH'I Poem Source First Line: There is a drought, the farmers have hard time finding food Last Line: What are we officials doing about it? %eating meat, growing old in the capital! Subject(s): Bureaucracy; Drought FRANCISCA REINA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A stricken queen, but still a queen of queens Last Line: "with orisons unto the rising sun." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Drought; Sacrifices; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke GARDENER'S JUBILATE (END OF THE DROUGHT), by NELL E. MABEY Poem Text First Line: The rain! The rain! The ancient, the rain! Last Line: The rain! The rain! The ancient, the rain! Subject(s): Drought; Rain HAD THERE BEEN RAIN, by BONNIE D. ELKIN Poem Text First Line: Pity a troubled little farm tonight Last Line: Had there been water. Subject(s): Drought HE SWORE HE'D DRINK OLD ENGLAND DRY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "drink round, brave boys, and never give o'er" Last Line: "before that he shall come and drink old england dry. Dry, dry" Subject(s): Drought HOLY DAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was in the queensland drought Last Line: And holy dan was drowned Subject(s): Animals;death;drought;horses;piety; "dead, The; HOPE, by KATHARINE MURDOCH DAVIS Poem Text First Line: A breath is stirring the taut-strung nerve Last Line: "perhaps it will rain in the dark." Subject(s): Drought; Rain INTO YOUR EYE, by VENO TAUFER Poem Source First Line: It is not the foam in the wake of the ship Last Line: In the guest sweeping a lash into your eye Subject(s): Drought; Dust; Roads; Travel KINGFISHER FLAT, by WILLIAM EVERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the long drought Alternate Author Name(s): Antoninus, Brother Subject(s): Drought KNOWING THE WORST, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning john, the granger, looked Last Line: Surprise you with a chortle when you're looking for a groan. Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Fields; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas LADY WITH THE HERON, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk athirst Last Line: At the feet of a heron Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Drought; Fables; Thirst; Water LAKE TSERKNITSA (SLOVENIA), by OSTEN SJOSTRAND Poem Source First Line: For months Last Line: For the opposite to arrive Subject(s): Drought; Harvest; Water LEAVING THE MARKED TRAIL, BEHIND THE CEMETERY, THE OLD HARBOR, BLOCK.., by ALAN CATLIN Poem Source First Line: Emerging from woods at high Last Line: The sea and the south beyond Subject(s): Block Island; Drought; Summer MUSIC ON THE DESERT, by KATHERINE NICHOLS OWSLEY Poem Text First Line: The tumble-weeds whirl happily and spin Last Line: To the sudden drumming of the rain. Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat; Sun PARAGRAPHS OF THIRST, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Beast of the desert, sex. Expelled from joy. What does it still Last Line: Beast of the desert, butting against the wall Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food And Eating; Sun; Thirst PAUSE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy needed / to stop by the road Last Line: Across the fields. Subject(s): Drought; Fields; Home; Roads; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips PLANTATION DROUTH, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It has not rained Last Line: Despite that bright, slow, loud antiphon %it will not rain Subject(s): Drought; Plantation Life SAID HANRAHAN, by P. J. HARTIGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll all be rooned,' said hanrahan / in accents most forlorn Last Line: "before the year is out." Alternate Author Name(s): O'brien, John+(2) Subject(s): Drought; Fire; Floods; God; Pessimism SAN ANTONIO MI SANGRE: FROM THE HARD SEASON, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The 2 a.M. Whistle of the long train Last Line: In a car streaking the thirsty land. Subject(s): Drought; Thirst SOLILOQUY, by FREDERICK E. LAIGHT Poem Text First Line: I have seen tall chimneys without smoke Last Line: Of godly men that somehow it shall rain. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Drought; Prairies; Recessions; Plains SONG OF THE MAD MENAGERIE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I on whom the wild sun Last Line: The body behind bone Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Drought; Poverty; Thirst; Water SQUARE, by JIM JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Bales, boxcars, red barns, white farmhouses, grain elevators, summer fal Last Line: A good meal, a short woman Subject(s): Drought; Fields; Wheat STATE OF THE UNION: 1. HERE NOTHING WORKS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here nothing works. Service taken Last Line: To our soil that is not different from other lands Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Drought; Failure; Harvest; Labor And Laborers; Poverty THE ARID LANDS, by HERBERT BASHFORD Poem Text First Line: These lands are clothed in burning weather Last Line: The home of silence and of heat! Subject(s): Drought THE BROKEN DROUGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prophet of disaster ceased to shout Last Line: Who advised man to come and live therein? Subject(s): Drought THE DROUTH AND THE FARMER, by MARVIN E. HARVEY Poem Text First Line: His body sore and tired from working Last Line: Seize its brilliance -- fire and all. Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE NEW EDEN; MEETING OF BERKSHIRE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETRY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce could the parting ocean close Last Line: Till ocean is its only wall! Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Drought; Horticulture THE RING OF DEATH, by C. G. A. COLLES Poem Text First Line: Where the bourke comes down to the level plains and junctions with the wills Last Line: When the ancient coorabulkas fought their last great fight of all. Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Animals; Curses; Death; Drought; Magic; Snakes; Water; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THE SPIRIT OF THE DESERT, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: An indian rides across the plain Last Line: They fade into the desert-dearth. Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Heat THE TEAM BULLOCK, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunrays scorched like furnace fires Last Line: "for I have taken none on these!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Death; Desolation; Drought; Horses; Dead, The THIRST, by ROBERTA ROBERSON CHILDERS Poem Text First Line: The withering sun drops grudgingly Last Line: A dry trough greets their day-long thirst. Subject(s): Drought WITCHING ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farming on dry land, a man keeps his witch-stick Last Line: Brought in elsewhere in texas. With my own eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Witching Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Prairies - Texas; Water; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains - Texas YEAR OF THE MAN, by MARY A. KONCEL Poem Source First Line: My friends aren't hungry anymore. When they walk down streets, they Last Line: Back three days later, 'the sweet still scent of thigh.' Subject(s): Drought; Hunger |
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