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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ENGLISH CHANNEL Matches Found: 13 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHANNEL PASSAGE, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The damned ship lurched and slithered. Quiet and quick Last Line: To choose 'twixt love and nausea, heart and belly. Subject(s): English Channel; Sea; Soldiers' Writings; Ocean A CHANNEL RHYME, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Start point and beachy head Last Line: Goodwin sands are worst of all! Subject(s): English Channel; Sailing & Sailors ARS GUBERNANDI, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Thy subtlest gift is steersmanship, o sea! Last Line: Skills not that day when rigid moorings break. Subject(s): English Channel; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails BEACHY HEAD, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On thy stupendous summit, rock sublime! Last Line: Had to some better region fled for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): English Channel; Great Britain - History; Sussex, England; English History CHANNEL CROSSING, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And just by crossing the short sea Subject(s): English Channel CHANNEL CROSSING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On storm-struck deck, wind sirens caterwaul Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): English Channel CHANNEL CROSSING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On storm-struck deck, wind sirens caterwaul Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): English Channel CHANNEL PASSAGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone Subject(s): English Channel IN THE CHANNEL, BETWEEN THE COAST OF CUMBERLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ranging the heights of scawfell or blackcomb Last Line: To cope with sages undevoutly free. Subject(s): English Channel MOAT, by OLIFFE RICHMOND Poem Source First Line: The little moat that fronts our fortress-wall Last Line: Confederate shores not ocean can divide Subject(s): English Channel; World War Ii NEAR DOVER, SEPTEMBER 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inland, within a hollow vale, I stood Last Line: Only, the nations shall be great and free. Variant Title(s): English Channel;france And England;september, 1802 Subject(s): English Channel OUTLANDERS, by ANDREW GLAZE Poem Source First Line: The channel moon went down, as ignorance Last Line: Was new world doubt if good or guile were there %in all the level state that met our stare Subject(s): English Channel THE COLLISION IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a sunday morning, and in the year of 1888 Last Line: When on the briny deep, far, far away! Subject(s): Disasters; English Channel; Shipwrecks; Storms |
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