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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CALCULUS OF READINESS, by LIZ WALDNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I, too, come from the city of dolls.
Subject(s): Dolls; Fish & Fishing; Anglers


A FAREWELL, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And if I did, what then?
Last Line: "as they do now at me."
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love - Loss Of; Anglers


A FISH STORY, by HENRY AUGUSTIN BEERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A whale of great porosity
Last Line: The upward path's the steeper.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


A FISHER'S-WIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The soonest mended, nothing said
Last Line: And he and I so far apart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A LETTER, ON FISHING GROUNDS [OF, THE GULF OF MAINE] BY WALTER H. RICH, by CHARLES OLSON            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: If the marine features
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High on his watershelf
Last Line: He is reading a chapter on deserts.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Knowledge; Nightmares


A SPRING IDYLL, by HENRY WOTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This day dame nature seem'd in love
Last Line: To welcome the new-livery'd year.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


A TALE OF THE SEA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold
Last Line: Will think of the hardships of poor mariners while at sea.
Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Hunger; Sea; Survival; Ocean


A WALK BY THE RIVER, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us walk where reeds are growing
Last Line: Are to read in nature's book.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


AD PISCATOREM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For these are sacred fishes all
Last Line: And in the waters empty all thy bait.
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fish & Fishing; Rome, Italy


AFTER THE PAPAGO, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've done it now
Last Line: On the homeward road
Subject(s): Desire; Fish & Fishing; Houses; Trout; Anglers


AN ANGLER'S SOLILOQUY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bright fish, weak victim of my wiles
Last Line: Our hearts of guile beware.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares


AN ANGLER'S WISH, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When tulips bloom in union square
Last Line: And just a day on nature's heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


AN EGYPTIAN PULLED GLASS BOTTLE IN THE SHAPE OF A FISH, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here we have thirst
Last Line: Whose scales turn aside the sun's sword by their polish.
Subject(s): Bottles; Fish & Fishing; Anglers


AN OLD FISHING NET, by JULIANUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shorn of his strength by time, these worn-out nets
Last Line: Reproach him not -- for 'tis his all in all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Julianus Aegyptius
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


ANGLING, by ADA E. HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is pleasant in the forest
Last Line: A chub lies panting on the shore.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


ANGLING, by CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES SOUTHEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father loved the patient angler's art
Last Line: "with pointing finger, and triumphant ""there!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Bowles, Caroline Anne
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


AT THE FISHHOUSES, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Although it is a cold evening
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


AT THE SAND CREEK BRIDGE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The path of most insistence
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Guns; Mountains; Nature; Rivers; Trout; Anglers; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BALLAD OF A WISTFUL LADY, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: She was a wistful lady
Last Line: Heigh-ho!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Women


BALLAD OF THE LONG-LEGGED BAIT, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bows glided down, and the coast
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sin; Anglers


BE CONTENTED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the fish that gets away, my boy"
Last Line: And fame will find you yet
Subject(s): Contentment;fish & Fishing


BETTY BRILL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm very fond of fish
Last Line: And muzzled me - don't grin
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing;love


BIRDS AND FISHES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every october millions of little fish come along the shore
Subject(s): Birds; Fish & Fishing; Anglers


BLACK JAVA PEPPER, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Despair, anger, grief
Last Line: Rain forest islands -- song.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


BY AN AUSTRAL RIVER: AUSTRALIA'S PROPHECY; AN ANGLER'S REVERIE, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The line whirs inward on the reel
Last Line: "has ""something worth!"" to show."
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; New Zealand; Rivers; Sea; Ocean


CALLER OYSTERS, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of a'the waters that can hobble / a fishin yole or salmon coble
Last Line: Will thole it better.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Oysters; Anglers


CASTING REELS, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You find them at flea markets
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


COUNTING THE WINTER DEAD, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Off the oregon coast, thirty-three in storm and sudden
Last Line: Voracious and benign, spare us o lord!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Funerals - At Sea; Oregon; Dead, The; Anglers; Burials At Sea


CRADLE SONG OF THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swung in the hollows of the deep
Last Line: Sleep, sleep.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


DARKEY FISHERMAN'S RAINY DAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: W'en I git up in de mo'nin' an' de clouds is big an' black
Last Line: Dough I knows dat lizy 's waitin' wid de skillet w'en I 's done.
Variant Title(s): Fishing
Subject(s): African Americans; Fish & Fishing; Negroes; American Blacks; Anglers


DAWN, NOON AND DEWFALL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn, noon and dewfall! Bluebird and robin
Last Line: And fiddle on the kitchen wall a-jes' a-eechin' fer me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Dawn; Fish & Fishing; Noon; Robins; Sunrise


DON'T YOU SEE?, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day was hotter than words can tell
Last Line: Till the whale was obliged to whale them all.
Subject(s): Crabs; Fish & Fishing; Jellyfish; Marine Animals; Sea; Anglers; Ocean


DOWN AROUND THE RIVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Noon-time and june-time, down around the river
Last Line: Noon-time and june-time down around the river!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; June; Rivers


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 CARP, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: People traveled from miles away to see
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Fish & Fishing; Anglers


EDNA BAY, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One day the men pulled a house off float logs
Last Line: See sheets of thin ice floating out in the bay.
Subject(s): Alaska; Fish & Fishing


ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I think by now the river must be thick
Subject(s): Fathers; Fish & Fishing; Anglers


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 9. LOVE A TICKLISH GAME, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Virgins are like the silver finny race
Last Line: Lay well your hooks -- and cast your nets with art.
Subject(s): Courtship; Fish & Fishing; Love; Anglers


EPITAPH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The angler rose, he took his rod, / he kneeled and made his prayers to god
Last Line: The angler tripped, the eels were fed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; God


FESTOONS OF FISHES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Incognitos of masquerading moons
Last Line: Festoons of fishes weave insanity.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ignorance; Sea; Anglers; Dullness; Stupdity; Ocean


FINISTERE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hurrah! I'm off to finistere, to finistere, to finistere
Last Line: When I come back to montparnasse and dream of finistere
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Paris, France


FISH, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are sharks that swim in ocean
Last Line: And red when they are cooked.
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Fish & Fishing; Food & Eating; Sea; Sharks; Water; Cookery; Anglers; Ocean


FISH, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fish have fins
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


FISH, by SYDNEY SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Much do I love, at civic treat
Last Line: Thee and thy dainty friends to leave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Sidney
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Food & Eating


FISH OF THE GODS, by RALPH LINTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fish of the gods! The gods who called for blood
Last Line: Perhaps the sportsmen throw us in again.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; God; Hunting; Irony; Anglers; Hunters


FISH-LEAP FALL, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From further in the hills there came
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


FISHERMAN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine a fisherman in summer deep
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


FISHERMAN IN SONGKHLA, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His mirror shines back with approval, god's
Last Line: Palms open in the gesture of forgiveness.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Thailand


FISHERMAN JOB, by JAMES ROANN REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, young'un, you're mighty smooth spoken, an' it all may
Last Line: An' if such things all happen by luck, why, I hope it'll always hold on.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


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 life—and christ in galilee!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; New Jersey; Seashore; Anglers; Beach; Coast; Shore


FISHERMEN - NOT OF GALILEE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They have toiled all the night, the long weary night
Last Line: I shall wake in thy likeness, satisfied.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Jesus Christ; Anglers


FISHERMEN AT FAIRHOPE, by FRANCES R. DURHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Paint me a poem in dull gold
Last Line: And peace there.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


FISHERS OF MEN, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long, long ago he said
Last Line: From calvary.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Hearts; Jesus Christ; Sea; Singing & Singers; War; Ocean


FISHERS OF MEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The boats are out, and the storm is high
Last Line: Till the nets, o'ercharged, shall break.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Galilee, Palestine; Religion; Sea; Stars; Theology; Ocean


FISHERS OF MEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Men can live where fishes are
Last Line: Men, our brothers, are below!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


FISHIN', by LOUISE AYRES GARNETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: De 'postles dey went seekin' fer to ketch a mess
Last Line: En yo' done kotch me.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


FISHING, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The days that I went fishing
Last Line: Of white stones and a running stream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Nature; Anglers


FISHING, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the sheep on the brae are lying still
Last Line: And the cross of good saint bride!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


FISHING FOR ALBACORE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Past oil derricks, gray docks. Intracite layout of oil pipes
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Tuna Fish; Anglers


FISHING NOOKS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men will grow weary,' said the lord
Last Line: The good lord fashioned fishing nooks.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


FISHING SONG, by H. A. WEBSTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pierre lefarge de doulazec
Last Line: And underneath, -- the grave!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Yale University


FISHING SONG; TO J.A. FROUDE AND TOM HUGHES, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, mr. Froude, how wise and good
Last Line: Hurrah! For salmon, grilse, and -- dennis, dennis, dennis!
Variant Title(s): Killarney
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Froude, James Anthony (1818-1894); Hughes, Thomas (1822-1896); Wales; Anglers; Welshmen; Welshwomen


FLYING FISH, by MARY MCNEIL SCOTT FENOLLOSA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out where the sky and the sky-blue sea
Last Line: Of birds that were drowned at sea?
Alternate Author Name(s): Mccall, Sidney; Scott, Mary Mcneil
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


FLYING FISH: AN ODE, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Low lies bermuda on our starboard bow
Last Line: The ship drives on; bermuda looms ahead.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sea Gulls; Ocean


FOR IZAAK WALTON, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What trout shall coax the rod of yore
Last Line: O hush thee, o hush thee! Heart innocent and dear.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Anglers


GAR, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night the river house swayed
Last Line: Like a memory at the light.
Subject(s): Country Life; Fish & Fishing; Southern States; Anglers; South (u.s.)


GOLD FISH, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through this blue crystal, mirroring still motion
Last Line: In motion that is sculpture-stone of sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


GOLDFISH BOWL, by ROSE ANDREWS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamed one night the goldfish bowl
Last Line: And then, of course, I woke.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Nightmares; Anglers


HALIEUTICA [HALIEUTICKS]: EELS AND TORTOISES, by OPPIAN OF CILICIA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange the formation of the eely race
Last Line: To the loathed duties of an hated bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oppian
Subject(s): Courtship; Eels; Fish & Fishing; Reproduction; Turtles; Mating; Tortoises


HAMLEN BROOK, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the alder-darkened brink
Subject(s): Streams; Fish & Fishing; Anglers


HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 4. CHESTER KOREMATSU, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fish are heavier than coal
Last Line: Between flames and water
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming


HEAVEN, by RUPERT BROOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fish (fly-replete, in depth of june
Last Line: There shall be no more land, say fish.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Soldiers' Writings; South Sea Islands; Anglers


HERRING IS KING, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Let all the fish that swim the sea
Last Line: Tis we have brought the summer in.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Herring; Anglers


HOPE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are nights I dream of goldfish
Last Line: With their strange and mournful cries
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


HOW TO CATCH A BLACK-FISH, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thomson, the poet of the year, has sung
Last Line: And feasts upon their folly.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Thomson, James (1700-1748); Anglers


I FED THE FISHES, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day a big excursion sailed afar out in the
Last Line: I fed the fishes clear to old st. Joe.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


I HAVE SOME FROZENFACED CONNECTICUT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: While the triumphant yankee's farm swept by
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


I SIT UP HERE AT MIDNIGHT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Her heart is on the deep
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Housewives


ICE FISHING, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From open water at the lake's
Last Line: By the blood-freckled cheek of the evening snow
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Winter


IDYLL 5. THE CHOICE, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When on the wave the breeze soft kisses flings
Last Line: Delight the rural ear and not affray.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


IF WE COULD BE BROUGHT, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If we could be brought to the surface
Last Line: The fish that is our slippery life / and death
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life


IKE WALTON'S PRAYER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I crave, dear lord
Last Line: Love, and the glad sweet face of her.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Fish & Fishing; God; Love; Prayer; Childhood; Anglers


IN A-FISHIN', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: W'en de sun's gone down, an' de
Last Line: Chorus
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Night; Bedtime


ISLA MUJERES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shoal we saw from the boat was fish;
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Dreams; Isla Mujeres, Mexico; Anglers; Nightmares


ISLAND OF SUMMER: 12. THE RED MULLET, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fig flames inward on the bough, and I
Last Line: Burns in the shadow of the black shoal
Variant Title(s): The Red Mulle
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


JOHN ROUAT THE FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Margaret simpson was the daughter of humble parents in the county of ayr
Last Line: And on a rude pallet lay poor margaret rouat cold and dead.
Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Marine Animals; Water


JOSEF ISRAELS, by ELIAS LIEBERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the fisher-folk of the netherland coast
Last Line: Who count the leaden years.
Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Jews; Solitude; Dead, The; Anglers; Judaism; Loneliness


JOURNEY INTO THE EYE, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Having no choice but to go down, the sun
Subject(s): Evening; Sun; Fish & Fishing; Sunset; Twilight; Anglers


LITTLE BOATIE'; A SLUMBER SONG FOR THE FISHERMAN'S CHILD, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Furl your sail, my little boatie
Last Line: Harbor-lights of love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


LITTLE DEATHS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every minute to two, another moth
Subject(s): Death - Animals; Fish & Fishing; Moths; Anglers


LITTLE FISH, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tiny fish enjoy themselves
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Animals; Fish & Fishing; Anglers


LITTLE FISHERMEN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little ship goes out to sea
Last Line: To cheer a world that's sad with care.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Children; Fish & Fishing; Childhood; Anglers


LITTLE SEAL-SKIN, by ELIZA KEARY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fisherman walked up the hill
Last Line: "she slipped into the sea!"
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Seals (animals); Anglers


MEDITERRANEAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I passed you many times as I went down the cliff walk
Last Line: May be: best thing: endure: face front: get back on the line
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Greece; Islands; Italy; Mediterranean Sea; Greeks; Italians


MONOLOGUE OF A COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


MORAL EMBLEMS II: 2, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The careful angler chose his nook
Last Line: Will cram his belly full of fish.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


NEAR YARMOUTH; TO EDWARD J. O'BRIEN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The river holds no more the fishing boats
Last Line: The river sleeps, the boats are gone again.
Subject(s): Boats; Fish & Fishing; Marine Animals; Sea; Anglers; Ocean


NIGHT FISHING IN THE SOUND, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sound is dark; you can barely hear
Last Line: Safe, into the cauldron of dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Dawn; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Water; Waves; Sunrise; Ocean


NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 4. VOICE OF A BRETON FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Douarnenez! Douarnenez!
Last Line: Break on mine eyes with the breaking day!
Subject(s): Eyes; Fish & Fishing; Home; Sea; Towns; Ocean


NIGHT SONG OF THE FISH, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Click here for poem
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


NORTHERN PIKE, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


NOT THE CUCKOLD'S DREAM; FOR SAM PEREIRA, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He lifts the white skiff up onto the beach. It is easter
Last Line: I will marry, he thought of the fish...
Subject(s): Drowning; Easter; Fish & Fishing; Holidays; Man-woman Relationships; The Resurrection; Anglers; Male-female Relations


NOVEMBER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will come back to you and you to me
Last Line: I will come back to you and you to me.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Grass; November; Sea; Trees; Ocean


ODE TO THE PELICAN, by MINNIE ELIZABETH OTTO    Poem Text                    
First Line: The florida pelican / is a doleful old bird
Last Line: On the mangrove limbs.
Subject(s): Birds; Fish & Fishing; Pelicans


OF FISH AND FISHERMEN, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fish are subtle. Fishermen
Last Line: It needn't be? That's what you think
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


OLD ST. JOE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the towns that jest suits me
Last Line: They ain't no flies on old st. Joe.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Towns; Anglers


OUT FISHIN', by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A feller isn't thinkin' mean
Last Line: Out fishin'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


PARODY OF LISTON'S 'BEAUTIFUL MAID.', by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My fishmonger told me that soles were most dear
Last Line: You've eat up my beautiful maid!
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fish & Fishing; Anglers


PISCES, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who said to the trout, / you shall die on good friday
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


PLUNDER, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fisherman leans backward on his cord
Last Line: Sort the slim pike with eager, callused hands!
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


POEM FOR ADLAI STEVENSON AND YELLOW JACKETS, by DAVID YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's summer, 1956, in maine, a camp resort
Subject(s): Summer; Time; Fish & Fishing; Wasps; Anglers; Yellow Jackets


PORTUGUESE FISHERMEN, by ALFARATA BOWDOIN HILTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bare, brown, singing throats
Last Line: The heart to sunnier lands and years.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Wellesley College; Anglers


REMORA, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This life is deep and dense
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


SALMON-FISHING, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The days shorten, the south blows wide for showers now
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


SALT FISH, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Haddock and cod, mackerel, scrod
Last Line: And the scent of them wafts through space!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


SAN PEDRO ROAD, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Casting, upon a salt creek in the sea-rank air
Last Line: Done with casting, reeling in slowly, casting
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


SCHOOLS OF LITTLE FISH, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Falling in snow beyond the window
Last Line: Until you can carry your brains in your open hands
Subject(s): Film (photography); Fish & Fishing; Photography & Photographers; Anglers


SEA-TROUT AND BUTTERFISH, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The contours and the shine
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


SHADOW-CASTING, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This boy's father dies. / fine. / it always happens. / the boy knows
Last Line: This boy, it always happens, doesn’t know what to do anymore
Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Fish & Fishing; Life; Sports; Dead, The; Anglers


SILVER, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fishing is life for towns along the sea
Last Line: Yet they shall keep a people until spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Water; Winter; Anglers


SKATE, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now a year after your death, fish-mother, skate
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


SONG, by JOANNA BAILLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O swiftly glides the bonny boat
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love; Anglers


SONG IN SEASON, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ho, time to fish again! And I shall go
Last Line: My soul has caught a rapturous glimpse of god.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Nature - Religious Aspects


SONG OF SOLOMON JONES, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF    Poem Text                    
First Line: My love is like a milk-white mare
Last Line: Where I was, here I am.
Subject(s): Animals; Fish & Fishing; Horses; Love


SONG OF THE FULL CATCH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "here's good wind, here's sweet wind"
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing;love;native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


SONG OF THE ICELANDIC FISHERMAN, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yield the bark to the breezes free
Last Line: The deep is thy path, and the soul thy care.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Iceland


SONG, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the fish of the bright and twittering fin
Last Line: Wild song, wild light, in still ocean's dark.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


SONNET OF FISHES, by GEORGE BARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright drips the orning from its trophied nets
Last Line: Death, in a dark, in a deep, in a dream, for ever.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


SONNETS OF A FISHING VILLAGE, by BURT FRANKLIN JENNESS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Low gabled houses fringe the cobbled streets
Last Line: Of mother nature, twofold from the sea.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


SOUNDING HARVEY CREEK, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the narrow, splintering, slatted floor of the dock
Last Line: Their bones showing like veins in a tiny leaf?
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Fish & Fishing; Solitude; Swamps; Anglers; Loneliness; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


SPONGE FISHERS, by ALMA ADAMS WILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sponge fishers of crete went down to the sea
Last Line: Of the hardy and the brave.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sponges; Ocean


SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I realize as I / cast out over the lake
Last Line: Made from your blonde pubic hair
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love; Marriage; Past; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TALES, by JOHN LEE HIGGINS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often at sea, when fishing nets are down
Last Line: Still keep their fairies singing on the weirs.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ireland; Sailing & Sailors; Anglers; Irish; Seamen; Sails


THE ANGLER, by JOHN CHALKHILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the brave [or, gallant] fisher's life
Last Line: And to be lamented.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Nature; Anglers


THE ANGLER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou that hast loved so long and well
Last Line: May'st calmly bid thy streams farewell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE ANGLER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a blithe morning in the golden mouth
Last Line: When last they stirr'd the wild-flowers on his grave!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE ANGLER, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But look! O'er the fall see the angler stand
Last Line: The constellation, and goes his ways.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE ANGLER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When saucy celia came my way
Last Line: "for I shall kill to-morrow."
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE ANGLER AND THE PHILOSOPHER, SELECTION, by CHARLES JENNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fate gives us line, we shift the scene
Last Line: "to distant climes, untried, unknown."
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Anglers


THE ANGLER'S BALLAD, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Away to the brook
Last Line: With the best of good subjects be reckon'd.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE ANGLER'S REVEILLE, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What time the rose of dawn is laid across the lips of night
Last Line: Good luck!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Birds; Fish & Fishing


THE ANGLER'S SONG, by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As inward love breeds outward talk
Last Line: Whom he to follow him hath chose.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE ANGLER'S SONG, by IZAAK WALTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Man's life is but vain
Last Line: And angle and angle again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Walton, Isaac
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE ANGLER'S WISH, by IZAAK WALTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I in these flowery meads would be
Last Line: A quiet passage to a welcome grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Walton, Isaac
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Nature; Anglers


THE BAIT, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come live with me, and be my love
Last Line: Alas! Is wiser far than I.
Variant Title(s): The Baite
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Rivers; Anglers


THE BOROUGH: LETTER 22. POOR OF THE BOROUGH. PETER GRIMES, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old peter grimes made fishing his employ
Last Line: Again they come,' and mutter'd as he died.
Variant Title(s): Peter Grimes
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Poverty; Anglers


THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE ROAD, by HELEN HAYNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the banks of gull lake in wisconsin
Last Line: I'll take the cabin at the end of the road.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE CATCH, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the golden leafage is beggared
Last Line: Oh thou golden mendicant music!
Variant Title(s): Vespers: 5
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE CATFISH, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From a traffic jam on st. Simons bridge
Last Line: Back to the current of our breathable past.
Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Dead, The; Anglers


THE CATFISH, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The saddest fish that swims the briny ocean
Last Line: If you know what it is!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Anglers; Ocean


THE CHIEF'S PRAYER AFTER THE SALMON CATCH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o kia-kunae, praise!"
Last Line: Priae! Praise! Praise!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing;native Americans;salmon; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE COLD-WATER MAN; A BALLAD, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was an honest fisherman
Last Line: Cold-water man at last!
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drowning; Fish & Fishing


THE CRICKET BALL SINGS, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leather - the heart o' me, leather - the rind o' me
Last Line: I but a little ball, thou but a great.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE DRUG-SHOP, OR, ENDYMION IN EDMONSTOUN, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night falls; the great jars glow against the dark
Last Line: She will be fully risen. -- there's his step!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Keats, John (1795-1821); Anglers


THE DRUNKEN FISHERMAN, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wallowing in this bloody sty
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE FAMOUS TAY WHALE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the month of december, and in the year 1883
Last Line: That is to say, if the people all are willing.
Subject(s): Boats; Dundee, Scotland; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Whales; Ocean


THE FIRST FISHERMAN, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside a vast and primal sea
Last Line: All fishermen—and ananias!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE FISH, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I caught a tremendous fish
Subject(s): Environment; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Sports; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Anglers; Ocean


THE FISH, by RUPERT BROOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a cool curving world he lies
Last Line: And the dark tide are one with him.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Soldiers' Writings; Anglers; Ocean


THE FISH, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pale woman is cradling a large red fish
Last Line: Swims toward the bottom to sleep in the mud.
Subject(s): Despair; Fish & Fishing; Hope; Salvation; Anglers; Optimism


THE FISH, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the tank
Last Line: Kept them awake & talking some more
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE FISH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although you hide in the ebb and flow
Last Line: And blame you with many bitter words.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): Breasal The Fisherman
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE FISH THAT LIVES AT THE BOTTOM, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of the sea
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE FISH THAT WALKED, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from oysters / and the confused weeds
Last Line: In this country of dirt
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE FISH, THE MAN, AND THE SPIRIT (COMPLETE), by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You strange, astonished-looking, angle-faced
Last Line: Quicken'd with touches of transporting fear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Variant Title(s): Three Sonnets
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Anglers; Ocean


THE FISHER, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fisher is a warrior
Last Line: Have glimmered, and flashed, and wheeled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; War


THE FISHER BOY JOLLILY LIVES, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Merrily oh! Merrily oh?
Last Line: The fisher boy jollily lives.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE FISHER'S SON, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know the world where land and water meet
Last Line: The staunchest bark that floats is high and dry.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Sea; Time; Ocean


THE FISHER'S WIDOW, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boats go out and the boats come in
Last Line: But there's one away.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Widows & Widowers


THE FISHERMAN, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sit beside lethean streams
Last Line: The failures I'm securing.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE FISHERMAN, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The waters rush'd, the waters rose
Last Line: And ne'er again was seen.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE FISHERMAN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along a stream that raced and ran
Last Line: I know him as a fisherman.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE FISHERMAN, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've sitted here for days and days
Last Line: Has seen a single fish!
Subject(s): Children; Fish & Fishing; Childhood; Anglers


THE FISHERMAN, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The water rushes - the water foams
Last Line: And never more was seen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although I can see him still
Last Line: And passionate as the dawn.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE FISHERMAN AND THE FLOUNDER; A GERMAN FAIRY TALE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fisherman, poor as poor can be
Last Line: "and there, till death, shall she remain!"
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE FISHERMAN'S BETHROTHED, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The crimson sun glared on her as she sat
Last Line: Return to the victorian women writers project library
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Disasters; Fish & Fishing; Shipwrecks


THE FISHERMAN'S CHANT, by FRANCIS COWLEY BURNAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, the fisherman is a happy wight!
Last Line: As much as it ought to be.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE FISHERMAN'S HYMN, by ALEXANDER WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The osprey sails above the sound
Last Line: "god bless the fish-hawk and the fisher!"
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE FISHERMAN'S LIGHT, by SUSANNA STRICKLAND MOODIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The air is still - the night is dark
Last Line: Through darkness shining cheerily.
Alternate Author Name(s): Strickland, Susanna
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE FISHERMAN'S SONG, by THOMAS D'URFEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of all the world's enjoyments
Last Line: Then who, &c.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace! For my brain is on the rack!
Last Line: The hindering veil and the spangled new gown.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE FISHERMEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hurrah! The seaward breezes
Last Line: The breath of heaven shall speed!
Variant Title(s): Fisher Song;the Song Of The Fishermen
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE FISHERMEN ROWING HOWEWARD, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fishermen rowing homeward in the dusk
Last Line: Hearing small rumors of paddlers drowned near stars
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE FISHERS, by HERBERT H. LONGFELLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: We spread our nets to mend them
Last Line: "god found and leaves us few."
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE FISHERWOMAN, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She took from her basket four fishes
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Labor & Laborers; Women; Anglers; Work; Workers


THE FISHING OUTFIT, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You may talk of stylish raiment
Last Line: Suit that I go fishing in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE FISHING PARTY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wunst we went a-fishin' - me
Last Line: When I choked! . . . Ma, didn't he?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Food & Eating; Picnics; Barbecues


THE FLOWER BOAT, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fisherman's swapping a yarn for a yarn
Last Line: To seek for the happy isles together.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE FRESHMAN'S VOCATION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He had fished in the aroostook
Last Line: In an envelope and sent them home by mail
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE GOOSE FISH, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the long shore, lit by the moon
Last Line: That bears the zodiac.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love; Anglers


THE GREAT BLACK HERON, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I stroll in the woods more often
Subject(s): Hanoi, Vietnam; Fish & Fishing; Women - Old Age; Anglers


THE HALIBUT, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dipping spruce branches into the calm water
Last Line: Rising a two-hundred-pound halibut with bulging eyes.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: APRIL. TROUT-FISHING, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning, through my window, half awake
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Trout; Anglers


THE INHABITANTS OF ATLANTIS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In an aquarium under the bar, the fish
Subject(s): Aquariums; Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE LAST CAST; THE ANGLER'S APOLOGY, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just one cast more! How many a year
Last Line: Mourned in the latest minstrel's ear!
Subject(s): Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Nightmares; Anglers


THE LITTLE FISHERMAN, by ANN TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a little fellow once
Last Line: "I will not fish again."
Subject(s): Boys; Fish & Fishing


THE LOBSTER, by CARL RAKOSI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eastern sea, 100 fathoms,
Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Lobsters; Anglers


THE LOBSTER MAN, by MILICENT LAUBENHEIMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now with stiff fingers round the heavy oars
Last Line: With quickening step, the leaf-strewn path through town
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE LORD OF THE ISLE, by STEFAN GEORGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fishermen will relate that in the south
Last Line: Departed with a muffled cry of pain.
Subject(s): Farewell; Fish & Fishing; Pain; Parting; Anglers; Suffering; Misery


THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You waves, though you dance by my feet like children at play
Last Line: When I was a boy with never a crack in my heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE MIRACLE, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every now and then a fishing pole
Last Line: Reached up his arm as if asking
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ambition; Death; Anglers; Dead, The


THE MOVEMENT OF FISH, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No water is still, on top
Last Line: And, of its one moment, the depth
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE MUD-FISH, BY AN INDIGNANT TORY FOOTMAN, by CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY BROOKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In sir joseph's marble dishes
Last Line: Keep the mud-fish in their places.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, Shirley
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE MYTH (A THAMES TROUT), by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where the bulrushes grow ranker
Last Line: And the broad paternal bigness and the peace of father thames!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Trout; Anglers


THE NAUGHTY DARKEY BOY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a cruel darkey boy
Subject(s): Blacks;boys;children;cruelty;fish & Fishing; Childhood


THE NET-BRAIDERS, by THOMAS WADE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a low-thatch'd hut, built in a lane
Last Line: That hut, with all its want, is paradise!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE OLD ANGLER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twilight leaned mirrored in a pool
Last Line: Dangling a baitless hook.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


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 PAPER NAUTILUS, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For authorities whose hopes
Variant Title(s): A Glass-ribbed Nest
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE PHILOSOPHY OF FISHING, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The philosophy of fishin', as I understand it, man
Last Line: And I ain't too big and husky for to pull a bluegill out.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE PLEASURES OF AN ANGLER, by JOHN WARREN GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When birds sing best and meadows bloom
Last Line: The joys that nature has refined.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 34, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where white clouds form high rugged crags
Last Line: How else could they pierce my walls
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fish & Fishing; Grief; Singing & Singers; Anglers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


THE POET'S JOURNAL: SQUANDERED LIVES, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fisherman wades in the surges
Last Line: And we to his wisdom are blind
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers


THE POOR FISH, by HENRY W. GOODRICH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I feel we cannot fail,'
Last Line: Be sure he's not a floating contact mine.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Whales; Anglers


THE PURSE-SEINE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight ...
Last Line: That cultures decay, and life's end is death
Subject(s): Environment; Fish & Fishing; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Anglers


THE RED FISHERMAN; OR, THE DEVIL'A DECOY, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The abbot arose, and closed his book
Last Line: Could tell the reason why!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE ROUND FISH, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With neither bones nor skin
Last Line: From the one that you are making as you go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Roads; Sea; Swimming & Swimmers; Paths; Trails; Ocean; Swimmers


THE ROYAL FISHERMAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: One morning in the month of june
Last Line: To row you on the tide
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


THE SALMON GILLERS, by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now the full tide swallows the sandspits
Last Line: Starring the river.
Subject(s): Columbia River (north America); Fish & Fishing; Salmon; Anglers


THE SEAL FISHER'S WIFE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The west shines out through lines of jet
Last Line: From the carded wool of her gown.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love; Anglers


THE SHAD SPIRIT, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now drop the holt, and securely nail
Last Line: And take what the shad spirit brings.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Shad; Anglers


THE SHETLAND FISHERMAN, by DOROTHY PRIMROSE CAMPBELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, fair arose the summer dawn
Last Line: And pamper'd luxury to weep.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Anglers; Ocean


THE SINGING KNIVES, by FRANK STANFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dogs woke me up
Subject(s): Knives; Hunting; Fish & Fishing; Daggers; Hunters; Anglers


THE SNAKE DOCTORS, by FRANK STANFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was in the outhouse
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Crime & Criminals; Pigs; Anglers; Boars; Hogs


THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA'S FISHING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth upon the gitche gumee
Last Line: But the skeleton of nahma.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE SOUTH WIND; A FISHERMAN'S BLESSINGS, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh blessed drums of aldershot!
Last Line: To bring such fishes back!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Wind; Anglers


THE SPECKLED TROUT, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With rod and line I took my way
Last Line: And opes the way to faeryland.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Nature; Trout; Anglers


THE UNATTAINABLE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know a pool where the river
Last Line: Well, we shall see.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THE USUAL WAY, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was once a little man, and his rod and line he took
Last Line: Well -- they do -- in the usual way.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE VAIN KING, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In robes of tyrian blue the king was drest
Last Line: And scolds the angler with a mocking scream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fish & Fishing; Kingfishers


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 VOICE OF THE SEA, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Break, break, break
Last Line: Thou wilt in the coming day!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Anglers; Ocean


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A NIGHT IN THE FISHERMAN'S HUT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the wind had been blowing the devil this way
Last Line: Shall yield him my offerings, and make him my bow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Netherlands; Travel; Anglers; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


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


THEY'RE DEAR FISH TO ME', by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The farmer's wife sat at the door
Last Line: What breaking hearts might swell the cry: / 'they're dear fish to me'
Subject(s): Adversity;death;fish & Fishing; "dead, The;


THINKING, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am caught in the body of a fish
Last Line: Caught in the body of a fish
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Freedom; Anglers; Liberty


THIS I REMEMBER, by ELISABETH CHANNING ALLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cloudless sky
Last Line: Fisherman . . . Do you!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


THOR'S FISHING, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heavy sky and heavy sea, / running cloud and wind-blown crests
Last Line: So was lost the midgard snake.
Subject(s): Animals; Fish & Fishing; Monsters; Mythology; Snakes; Anglers; Serpents; Vipers


THREE THROWS AND ONE, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still dusk shuts out the shimmering sea, / shuts in the shadowy shore
Last Line: Con sees the white face of his doom through all the world grown dim.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Luck; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wishes; Anglers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


TITANOMACHIA: GOLDEN FISH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "mute fishes, too, with eyes of gold inlaid"
Last Line: Through paradisal water swum and played
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


TO A FISH OF THE BROOK, by JOHN WOLCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why flyest thou away with fear?
Last Line: To pull the raskall in!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Variant Title(s): Ballade To A Fish Of The Brooke
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


TO A FLYING-FISH, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of bird and naiad you are born, a sprite
Last Line: Eludes both human heart and human tongue!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


TO A GENTLEMAN WHO INVITED ME TO GO A-FISHING, by ELIZABETH MOODY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For vacant hours of man's destructive leisure
Last Line: Chagrined and weary, if it shuns the bait?
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


TO A KINGFISHER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: St. Peter was a fisherman, a fisherman was he
Last Line: Or if I didn't actually, I think he understood!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Saints; Anglers


TO A NORWEGIAN MACKERAL, by MARGERY DOUD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through deep and clear and singing
Last Line: To see you swimming here in melted butter.
Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Fish & Fishing; Anglers


TO AN OLD FRIEND, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The end draws near again, and very near
Last Line: To meet the first march brown!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Trout; Anglers


TO FISHERMEN, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No more savage art: filleting: a deft pressure along the backbone
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


TO MASTER ANDREW LANG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, that are much a fisher in the pool
Last Line: Shall any pious hand re-edit us?
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Lakes; Dead, The; Pools; Ponds


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. BY LAKE WACHUSETT, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night-breeze murmurs odorous through the wild
Last Line: Souls winged and equipped for freedom.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Freedom; Wachusett (mountain), Massachusetts; Anglers; Liberty


TROLLING FOR BLUES, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As with the dapper terns, or that sole cloud
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


TROUT, by BEATRICE RUTH GIBBS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down by the bridge the speckled trout
Last Line: The quiet days of peace.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers


TWILIGHT-PIECE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden river-reach afar
Last Line: This small strange touch of human pain!
Subject(s): Evening; Fish & Fishing; Nature; Pain; Rivers; Sunset; Twilight; Suffering; Misery


TWO FISHERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: One morning when spring was in her teens
Last Line: A hundred-and-fifty-pounder
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing;women


TWO PICTURES OF A LEAF, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I make up this leaf
Last Line: Come to resemble so much that does not.
Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Leaves; Survival; Trees; Dead, The; Anglers


ULULANI; A SEA TALE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When ululani went to feed
Last Line: Will shine for ululani.
Subject(s): Boats; Children; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Story-telling; Travel; Childhood; Anglers; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


UNDINE: SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fisherman, fisherman, why do you weep
Last Line: Or else that your child were dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Grief; Love; Mortality; Sorrow; Sadness


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


VERSES IN PRAISE OF ANGLING, by HENRY WOTTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares
Last Line: Meet, when we come a-fishing here.
Variant Title(s): In Praise Of Angling
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


WE FISH, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We fish, we fish, we merrily swim
Last Line: As through the seas we go.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


WE'LL GO TO SEA NO MORE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh blithely shines the bonny sun
Last Line: We'll go to sea no more
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


WHEN THERE IS PEACE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is peace on the sea tonight
Last Line: Amid the earthquakes of death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fish & Fishing; God; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Nightmares


WITH SUCH DETAIL, by JOHN ROBERT QUINN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The mind with such minute detail
Last Line: Talking with brother jim.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing


WORDS ARE NEVER ENOUGH, by CHARLES TORY BRUCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: These are the fellows who smell of salt to the prairie
Last Line: These are the fellows who keep the salt in the blood.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Language; Nova Scotia; Anglers; Words; Vocabulary