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Subject: ICELAND
Matches Found: 8

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHARADE: 5, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My second could never produce my first
Last Line: With whom it were vain to plead.
Subject(s): Iceland


GOVERNOR LENHARD, SELS., by EINAR HJORLEIFSSON KVARAN                       
Subject(s): Iceland


GUNNAR'S HOWE ABOVE THE HOUSE AND LITHEND, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye who have come o'er the sea
Subject(s): Iceland; Travel


ICELAND FIRST SEEN, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo from our loitering ship a new land at
Last Line: Whence the gods stood aloof to behold?
Subject(s): Iceland; Travel


ICELAND REVISITED, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unwashed, unshat
Last Line: Where all men are equal %but not vulgar - not yet
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Iceland


MAIRI'S DRAFTS: ICELAND, 1410, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Will be the last wedding %in this place we have tried to make a home
Last Line: Put his hand into my furs I burned wonderfully
Subject(s): Iceland; Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel


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


THE MILLENNIAL HYMN OF ICELAND, by MATTHIAS JOCHUMSSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our country's god! Our country's god!
Last Line: And guide, in thy wisdom, through life!
Subject(s): National Song - Iceland