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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PONDS Matches Found: 167 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DAY AT CASTROGIOVANNI: 2. PROSERPINE BY LAKE PERGUSA, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lifted on hollow lands and grassy miles Last Line: Dark lover, death, -- was he not beautiful? Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Lakes; Persephone; Dead, The; Pools; Ponds; Proserpine; Proserpina A FOREST LAKE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lake of sylvan shore! When gentle spring Last Line: Or dusking in the wake of tardy oars Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds A LAKE MEMORY, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lake comes throbbing in with voice of pain Last Line: This rain of spray that blows about my face. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds A LAKE SUNRISE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Sheathed by the everlasting sky Last Line: Whereon an angel lingering may kneel and pray. Subject(s): Angels; Dawn; Lakes; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds A LITTLE POOL, by MYNA A. RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Water lies curled Last Line: On a stone footstool. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds A MAN GETS OFF WORK EARLY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And decides to snorkel in a cool mountain lake. Subject(s): Snorkeling; Death; Lakes; Pollution; Dead, The; Pools; Ponds A RHPASODY; WRITTEN AT THE LAKES IN WESTMORLAND, by JOHN BROWN (1715-1766) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now sunk the sun, now twilight sunk, and night Last Line: Of quiet whispering to the ear of night. Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Silence; Westmorland, England; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime A RIVER POOL, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet streamlet bason! At thy side Last Line: That home, of peace, if not of love. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds AFTER SUNSET - LAKE WEELOKENEBAKOK, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At twilight azescohos standeth Last Line: Shall be for us color and music? Subject(s): Evening; Lakes; Sunset; Twilight; Pools; Ponds AMONG THE LAKES, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Perhaps the roman, when he ruled this land Last Line: Ullswater, derwentwater, windermere. Subject(s): England; Lakes; Nature; English; Pools; Ponds AN OLD FISH POND, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green growths of mosses drop and bead Last Line: The wood-birds dip and drink. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds APRIL LAKE, by EVELYN NORCROSS SHERRILL Poem Text First Line: The lake has many different gowns Last Line: When april leads the sun to rest. Subject(s): April; Lakes; Pools; Ponds ARABESQUE, by FLORENCE BROOKS Poem Text First Line: Out on the glassy surface of the lake Last Line: In my eyes' mirror, is but my own soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Malone, John, Mrs. Subject(s): Lakes; Love; Soul; Pools; Ponds AT GULL LAKE: AUGUST, 1810, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gull lake set in the rolling prairie Last Line: Knew where she lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Lakes; Native Americans; Nature; Pools; Ponds; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AT LAKE MAHOLE; DEDICATED TO LOUIS J. PAPINEAU OF MONTEBELLO, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Stretched on a hillside's wooded height Last Line: Awaking, onward we will roam. Subject(s): Lakes; Solitude; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness BEAUTIFUL MONIKIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful monikie! With your trees and shrubberies green Last Line: Which supplies the people with water belonging dundee. Subject(s): Lakes; Tourists; Travel; Pools; Ponds; Journeys; Trips BLEST IS THE TARN, by SARA COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blest is the tarn which towering cliffs o'ershade Last Line: She yields that dream of bliss to ever welcome sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Lakes; Mountains; Tarns; Nightmares; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BY AN INLAND LAKE, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Last Line: Thro' golden, august noons. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds CHINESE POND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chinese pond is quick with leeches Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Ponds; China CHINESE POOL OF THE MOON (NEAR FORGOTTEN ARHAN), by KATHERINE SHUMARD SANDERS Poem Text First Line: The moon on the pool is silver Last Line: In a low and eerie croon. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds COMPOSED BY THE SIDE OF GRASMERE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds, lingering yet, extend in solid bars Last Line: "ravage the world, tranquillity is here!" Subject(s): Grasmere, England; Lakes; Pools; Ponds DEEP IN THE FOREST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Deep in the forest there is a pond Last Line: "our brothers, even the birds and deer, / who always float down to us / with alarmed and startled ey Variant Title(s): After The Anonymous Swedish; Seventeenth Century Subject(s): Death;forests;lakes;water; "dead, The;woods;pools;ponds; DUDDINGSTONE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With caws and chirrupings, the woods Last Line: We had been drowned in love. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Duddingston, Scotland; Lakes; Love; Pools; Ponds EDGE, by CHARLOTTE FARRINGTON BABCOCK Poem Text First Line: The pond is cold, steel-blue, like the bright blade Last Line: We pierce the shadowy waters far below. Subject(s): Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds EDWIN MORRIS; OR, THE LAKE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O me, my pleasant rambles by the lake Last Line: The light cloud smoulders on the summer crag. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Lakes; Love - Loss Of; Pools; Ponds EMERALD LAKE (EAST DORSET, VERMONT), by JAMES ROSE Poem Text First Line: When the winter's snow has gently covered Last Line: And makes a bit of heaven of the place. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds ENCOUNTER, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lake that was caked ice is ice no more Last Line: Bands closing them) lie, like matching rings Subject(s): Hunting; Lakes; Hunters; Pools; Ponds ENGLE FERRY, by EUGENE MANLOVE RHODES Poem Text First Line: Engle ferry is narrow and deep Last Line: On engle ferry and engle ford. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds ESCAPE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep pools there are, pools quiet and still Last Line: And yet cannot escape from you? Subject(s): Escapes; Lakes; Memory; Moon; Stars; Fugitives; Pools; Ponds ESSAY: DUCKS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Break what is the / nectarine - word Last Line: Of the thought: dusks reflect you Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Ducks; Lakes; Mallards; Drakes; Pools; Ponds EVENING ON LAKE COMO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside my garden's ivied wall Last Line: The dreams of youth come back to me. Subject(s): Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Lakes; Life; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Pools; Ponds FLUTE NOTES FROM A REEDY POND, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now coldness comes sifting down, layer after layer Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Ponds FOREST POOL, by CHARLES J. QUIRK Poem Text First Line: It's a looking-glass for wild and lovely things Last Line: To bathe its slender silver as it shone. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds GREEN POND, by SMITH ELY Poem Text First Line: Above the plain upon the mountain crest Last Line: By the great artist's hand in nature's coronet. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds GREENWOOD LAKE, by ISAAC MCLELLAN JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gaze forth where herbert loved to gaze Last Line: Reflecting the o'erhanging wood. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds HE SAID TURN HERE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then tony showed us the lake Subject(s): Lakes; Summer; Grief; Pools; Ponds; Sorrow; Sadness HEMATITE LAKE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is another kind of sleep Last Line: Not even nightfall, whose gold we are, can find us Subject(s): Birds; Lakes; Nature; Swans; Pools; Ponds HOCKNEY: BLUE POOL, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Los angeles, / california: / a summer afternoon Subject(s): Cities; Hockney, David (b. 1937); Gays & Lesbians; Lakes; Los Angeles; Urban Life; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Pools; Ponds HOMEWARD BOUND, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the starry night is gone Last Line: Of our childhood . . . Long ago! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Gardens & Gardening; Home; Lakes; Childhood; Pools; Ponds HOW ONE WINTER CAME IN THE LAKE REGION, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For weeks and weeks the autumn world stood still Last Line: Fast fell the driving snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds ICE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one this far south chances ice Last Line: And the lottery began. Subject(s): Drowning; Fear; Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds IN MY PERGOLA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the blue-robed, sleeping lake Last Line: With every sun-kissed flower a smile! Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Lakes; Life; Paradise; Pools; Ponds IN THE PAST, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lies a somnolent lake Last Line: That boatman am I. Subject(s): Lakes; Past; Solitude; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness INDIAN POND, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All through a bitter april, Subject(s): Ponds JANUARY IN THE TREMEZZINA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day by day / as if in may Last Line: In a sweet retreat on the larian lake? Subject(s): Alps; January; Lakes; Mountains; Peace; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain) KENOZA LAKE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As adam did in paradise Last Line: Who walked on galilee! Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds LAKE, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between arid mountains Subject(s): Disasters; Lakes; Shipwrecks; Water; Pools; Ponds LAKE COMO IN AUTUMN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From como's curving base of blue Last Line: The sun will bring the spring again. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Lakes; Seasons; Fall; Pools; Ponds 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 LAKE LOUISE, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Only divinity, enrapt, could mould Last Line: The lonely lovliness of lake louise. Subject(s): Lakes; Travel; Pools; Ponds; Journeys; Trips LAKE MISTS (COMPOSED NEAR LAKE WINNIPISEOGEE), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I gazed on the prospect enchanted Last Line: Thus sternly divorced from her soul! Subject(s): Lakes; Mist; Pools; Ponds LAKE MOODS, by NELLIE HURLBURT WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: I think the way I like you best Last Line: And kiss their lips with whispers and moans. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds LAKE NIPIGON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High-shouldered and ruddy and sturdy Last Line: In silence watch sadly the white man. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Pools; Ponds LAKE WABAN, by LOUISE MANNING HODGKINS Poem Text First Line: Lake of grey at dawning day Last Line: Peaceful, happy dreaming. Subject(s): Contentment; Lakes; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Pools; Ponds LAKE WINNIPISEOGEE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day the river of life flowed o'er Last Line: The cloistered darling of her heart. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds LANCES, by CHARLES TRUEMAN LANHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have known a little pool of silent water Last Line: Lances in its heart that were not thrown. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanham, C. T. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds LAVENDER POND, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never a swallow wets his wing Last Line: In lavender pond by london city. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds LIFE AT THE LAKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green below and the blue Last Line: The blue above and the green below. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Summer; Pools; Ponds LITTLE LAC GRENIER (GREN-YAY), by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: Little [leetle] lac grenier, she's all alone Last Line: For visit you now -- leetle lac grenier! Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds LOCH FIODIAG, by ANGELA GORDON Poem Text First Line: Ageless shadowy hills enfold it Last Line: Time forgets to awake from sleep. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Sleep; Pools; Ponds LOCH TORRIDON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dawn of night more fair than morning rose Last Line: But came on us hard out of heaven, and alive with the soul of the sea. Subject(s): Dawn; Lakes; Night; Stars; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime LOCH-LONG, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue was the loch, the clouds were gone Last Line: And her -- the lady of the glen! Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds LOVERS AT THE LAKE SIDE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you brought him home? I did, ay ronald, it rested with me Last Line: Laura! But give me my troth kiss again.' 'and give me my ring.' Subject(s): Hope; Kisses; Lakes; Life; Love; Optimism; Pools; Ponds MARCH DAYS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world to-day is a nun in gray Last Line: And april airs be here! Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Lakes; March (month); Spring; Nightmares; World; Pools; Ponds MARYLAND MUD, by CAROLINE M. LORD Poem Text First Line: In rapture and despair Last Line: To feel the color of a muddy pool. Subject(s): Lakes; Maryland; Pools; Ponds MAURINE: PART 3, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One golden twelfth part of a checkered year Last Line: That only he who watched with sorrow knows. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Lakes; Love; Rowing; Women; Nightmares; Pools; Ponds METAPHYSICS AT LAKE OSWEGO, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn like never before Last Line: You neither let go nor withhold. Subject(s): Dawn; Lakes; Oregon; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds MICHIGAN SUMMER, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO Poem Text First Line: By sweat and hunger, stealth and guile Last Line: Will find it easy now to die. Subject(s): Lakes; Michigan; Nature; Parks; Summer; Pools; Ponds MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN AT A POND, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first of june, grasses already tall Last Line: Is a response. I swim across the ring of it Subject(s): Lakes; Women; Pools; Ponds MIRROR LAKE, by FLORENCE MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: What do the tourists say? I asked our guide Last Line: I held my breath, lest I might break the spell. Subject(s): Lakes; Tourists; Pools; Ponds MOUNTAIN POOL, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poured by a hundred rills Last Line: In this water, clear and cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Drowning; Lakes; Water; Pools; Ponds MUCK LAKE, by HARLAN J. LEACH Poem Text First Line: It's called galatia though few acres now Last Line: And leave the lake to muskrat, coot, and plover. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds MUSINGS ON A COOL RETREAT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a little hidden pool Last Line: The woolworth building, in the basement! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Lakes; Mountains; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain) NIGHT HYMNS ON LAKE NEPIGON, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the midnight, where the dark mainland and island Last Line: Ringing like cymbals. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Soul; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime NOCTURNE IN A DESERTED BRICKYARD, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stuff of the moon Last Line: Make a wide dreaming pansy of an old pond in the night. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds NORTHERN MINNESOTA, by MONTA W. KIRKCONNELL Poem Text First Line: Land of lakes, where pines stand tall Last Line: For the northland winter sport! Subject(s): Lakes; Minnesota; Sports; Pools; Ponds NOSTALGIA OF THE LAKEFRONTS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cities burn behind us; the lake glitters Subject(s): Lakes; Nostalgia; Pools; Ponds ON A LAKE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet in the rushes Last Line: The life of the lake. Subject(s): Birds; Lakes; Nightingales; Water; Pools; Ponds ON COMO, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rainless darkness drew o'er the lake Last Line: Where on to the alps the muteness passed. Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Nature; Pools; Ponds OSWEGO LAKE, by MARGARET BRADSHAW Poem Text First Line: God's mirror of the mountains Last Line: Whose earth with heaven compares. Subject(s): Creation; Lakes; Pools; Ponds P IS FOR POOL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I know a deep and lonely pool - that's where Last Line: Clasped to the rugged breast of that black nurse. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds PAVANE, by ELEANOR ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Beside the amber pools of sleep Last Line: The water ripples gold. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Lakes; Pools; Ponds PIXIES AT THE POOL, by RICHARD POMFRET Poem Text First Line: Look below into the pool's Last Line: And flee at dawn's first light. Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Stars; Water; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime POEMS WRITTEN IN NORWAY IN 1899: 3. THE LAKE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nevermore sail or oar Last Line: To some darker shore to-morrow. Subject(s): Lakes; Norway; Pools; Ponds PRIVATE GROUND, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First frost, and I walk among the rose-fruit, the marble toes Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds RED SWAN, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Purple necks and green, fat drakes whiter than easter Last Line: To burn for a moment in the shape of a swan. Subject(s): Birds; Curiosities & Wonders; Lakes; Rumors; Enigmas; Oddities; Pools; Ponds RIVER AND SEA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stood by the river that swept Last Line: "to those who have looked on the sea." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Lakes; Rivers; Sea; Pools; Ponds; Ocean SALTON SEA, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD Poem Text First Line: O glittering, heartless, fearful sea Last Line: Have forced a gate to paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Ben Subject(s): Lakes; Salton Sea, California; Pools; Ponds SEDGE SONGS: 3, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angry sunset sky Last Line: Thy long tresses fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Grief; Lakes; Longing; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Pools; Ponds SONG: 1, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Text First Line: Dip your hands in the mountain water Last Line: Like blue in the pool that makes it fair! Subject(s): Hands; Lakes; Mountains; Singing & Singers; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Songs SONGS BY THE LAKE: 1, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the sky the sun is falling Last Line: Gleams the mirrored evening star. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Grief; Lakes; Sorrow; Sadness; Pools; Ponds SONGS BY THE LAKE: 4, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset dull and drear Last Line: Flutters in the storm. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds SONGS BY THE LAKE: 5, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the lake as it reposes Last Line: Like an ecstasy of prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds SONGS FOR TWO SEASONS: 2. RED POND, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How cool it lies. It only speaks Last Line: And traces of red mud Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds SONNET: THE LAKE AND STAR, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain lake, o'ershadow'd by the hills Subject(s): Lakes; Love; Pools; Ponds SPRING POOLS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These pools that, though in forests, still reflect Last Line: From snow that melted only yesterday Subject(s): Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Lakes; Spring; Pools; Ponds STARS, by NAN ROADS Poem Text First Line: A sheet of blue white Last Line: In the arms of the night. Subject(s): Lakes; Night; Stars; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime STILL WATERS, by MARY RAY KING Poem Text First Line: My eyes have never seen / enough of emerald Last Line: Of a mind that will not sleep. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds STOPPING FOR GAS NEAR CHEAT LAKE, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trees bent unnatural by wind Subject(s): Gasoline; Lakes; Pools; Ponds STORM ON LAKE ASQUAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud, like that the old-time hebrew saw Last Line: Spent broken clouds the rainbow's angel spanned. Subject(s): Asquam, Lake; Lakes; Storms; Pools; Ponds SUMMER, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At ox bow beach, the august sun a rake Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds SUNSET ACROSS THE LAKE, by AUGUSTA M. BARNEY Poem Text First Line: I sit and watch the sun go down Last Line: And I catch a glimpse of it. Subject(s): Evening; Heaven; Lakes; Sunset; Twilight; Paradise; Pools; Ponds SUNSET ON REELFOOT LAKE, by DAN KROLL Poem Text First Line: On reelfoot lake, at close of day Last Line: When the lonely waters have gone to rest. Subject(s): Evening; Lakes; Sunset; Twilight; Pools; Ponds THE CASCADE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the mountain gray Last Line: Has lasted a thousand years. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lakes; Life; Pools; Ponds THE CRY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you not hear her crying Last Line: To find her before I die! Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; God; Grass; Lakes; Lilies; Woods; Pools; Ponds THE DAIMYO'S POND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The swallows come on swift and daring wings Last Line: Who knows that incantation, and will tell? Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Japan; Lakes; Japanese; Pools; Ponds THE DRIED MILLPOND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old broadbridge pond, once on a time so deep Last Line: Nor any pleasure of the past abides. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Lakes; Landscape; English; Pools; Ponds THE ELFIN VALLEY, by MARY WEBB Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: By this low rock pool, dark and sweet Last Line: Has laid a spell of gold. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Summer; Pools; Ponds THE ENCHANTED LAKE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found a dark enchanted lake Last Line: Save that she looked with laura's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Lakes; Nymphs; Pools; Ponds THE ESCAPE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dreadful city's roar Last Line: Far from these clattering stones. Subject(s): Bones; Cities; Escapes; Lakes; Trees; Urban Life; Fugitives; Pools; Ponds THE FOREST POOL, by GRACE BLAINE Poem Text First Line: In a remote, green recess of the forest Last Line: Of nature's cup, the forest pool. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE FOREST POOL, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lost amid gloom and solitude Last Line: Floats corpse-like in a pool of tears Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE FOUR LAKES OF MADISON, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four limpid lakes, four naiades Last Line: Bathed in a golden atmosphere! Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE FRIARY AT BLOSSOM, PROLOGUE & INSTRUCTIONS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The pond lilies are like little executions Last Line: — 1967 Subject(s): Animals; Politics & Government; Horses; Lakes; Prisons & Prisoners; Survival; Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542); Pools; Ponds; Convicts THE GLASS OF TIME, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a lake high up among the hills Last Line: From peace to vaster peace. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE GRAVE AT GLIMMERGLASS, by CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O haunted lake, from out whose silver fountains Last Line: And raises thee to long-enduring fame. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE HAUNTED LAKE: THE IRISH MINSTREL'S LEGEND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose up the young moon; back she flung Last Line: Mid these northern halls, to the meed of fame. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Lakes; Legends, Irish; Pools; Ponds THE HORIZON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale trees on the horizon grow Last Line: So it goes. So it always will! Subject(s): Lakes; Silence; Trees; Wharves; Pools; Ponds; Piers THE LAKE, by HELEN BIRCH-BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: Moonlight on the lake Last Line: That was her hair? Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus ever drawn toward far shores uncharted Last Line: "hereby they once did love!" Subject(s): Lakes; Time; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Must we for ever to some distant clime Last Line: "here, two fond lovers strayed." Subject(s): Lakes; Time; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a lonely woodland lake Last Line: And keep them one -- is mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE (VERSION 1), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In youth's spring it was my lot Last Line: An eden of that dim lake. Subject(s): Lakes; Youth; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE (VERSION 2), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In spring of youth it was my lot Last Line: An eden of that dim lake. Subject(s): Lakes; Youth; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE BOATS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In an old print Last Line: They are longing for the spring! Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE IN CENTRAL PARK, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It should have a woman's name Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE IN VERMONT, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lake once lay, where the thunder clouds sail Last Line: And where the flower smiles is the serpent of death. Subject(s): Lakes; Vermont; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness THE LAKE OF THE FALLEN MOON, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the thundering of water fills Last Line: Driving beneath the peaks from grass to grass. Subject(s): Lakes; Moon; Waterfalls; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE ON THE MOUNTAIN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eastern sky of azure hue Last Line: From out the mountain lake. Subject(s): Lakes; Mountains; Trees; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE LAKESIDE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows round the inland sea Last Line: Behind thy smiling face! Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE LAST MAN; A LAKE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lake Last Line: Is a river curled and asleep like a snake. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE LILY-POOL AND THE COW, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What sees our mailie in the lily-pool Last Line: "from off this most sufficient, absolute lily-pool!" Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Cows; Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE MIRROR OF DIANA, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She floats into the quiet skies Last Line: Elusive in the flux of things. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Italy; Lakes; Italians; Pools; Ponds THE MOUNTAIN AND THE LAKE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a mountain thrilling to the stars Last Line: Alas! Poor little lake! Alas! Poor me! Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE NYMPH, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: The pool in the forest drinks her in, mirrors her, laughs with her Last Line: Pool. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Lakes; Nymphs; Water; Showers & Showering; Pools; Ponds THE OLD MILL-POND, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is evening, quiet evening Last Line: Far from me you're all to-night. Subject(s): Lakes; Memory; Youth; Pools; Ponds THE PASTURE POND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the pasture pond alone Last Line: Their solitary pasture-pond. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Lakes; Landscape; English; Pools; Ponds THE POND, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time a certain man was found Last Line: You change the name but realize the fate. Subject(s): Lakes; Waves; Pools; Ponds THE POND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: So innocent, so quiet - yet Last Line: Is that dead woman's upturned face. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Drowning; Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE POND, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold, wet leaves Subject(s): Ponds THE POND, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snapping turtles in the pond eat bass, sunfish Last Line: And the steel hook wrenched straight as a pin. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Turtles; Pools; Ponds; Tortoises THE POND, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is, upon my homeward walk, a place Last Line: Like some tall, graceful plant, up-springing there. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE POOL, by EDWARD DOWDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wood obscure in this man's haunt of love Last Line: The brink, nor sheds a tear now, is his wraith. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE POOL, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the pool that I see in my dreams, dea love Last Line: In the pool that I see in my dreams. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE POOL, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come with me, follow me, swift as a moth Last Line: Safe as a blind shell under the sea. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE POOL, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What has fallen into my heart Last Line: Through night's bars.' Subject(s): Hearts; Lakes; Night; Stars; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime THE SHADED POOL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A laughing knot of village maids Last Line: And laura's are the lips I sing. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Country Life; Lakes; Women; Showers & Showering; Pools; Ponds THE SUMMER POOL, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a singing in the summer air Last Line: Fall melting on the pool in rings of light! Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE SWEETWATER CAVERNS, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Curious to see caverns Subject(s): Lakes; Caves; Youth; Aging; Disappointment; Pools; Ponds; Caverns THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 6, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The minute fingers of the imperceptible air Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE UNNAMED LAKE, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It sleeps among the thousand hills Last Line: We left without a name. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE WINTER LAKES, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in a world of death, far to the northward lying Last Line: Death and hate on the rocks, as sandward and landward it roars. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Lakes; Winter; Pools; Ponds THE WRECK ON LOCH MCGARRY, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you should search all scotland round Last Line: May just help you to begin it. Subject(s): Accidents; Disasters; Epiphany; Ignorance; Lakes; Scotland; Shipwrecks; Soul; Virtue; Twelfth Night; Dullness; Stupdity; Pools; Ponds THERE WAS A FROG SWUM IN THE LAKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: If any do it is not I Subject(s): Animals;frogs;lakes; Pools;ponds TO A MOUNTAIN LAKE, by MABEL HALL WALTER Poem Text First Line: What mighty force tore these great cliffs Last Line: From deadening walls that, soundless, close me in! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Sarah Mabel Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds TO A NYMPH, by GERALD W. THOMSON Poem Text First Line: Just off our rented steps there is a pool Last Line: Of lawn -- a towel green he thought was grown for him. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds 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 TO THE LAKES, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With purple glow at even Last Line: The haunted hours go by. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds TOMMY'S POND, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frogs' eggs in globular clusters Last Line: Unsaid as galaxies. In any pond Subject(s): Ponds TWO POETS BY THE LAKE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lakeshore modulated to a cove Last Line: The balked need urgent in your words, and mine. Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Writing & Writers; Pools; Ponds; Feminism TWO VIEWS OF IAMONIA LAKE, by ROBERT N. PERRY JR. Poem Text First Line: By day, - / a ruffled expanse of transparent coolness Last Line: Consumed by an irresistible passion. Subject(s): Day; Lakes; Night; Pools; Ponds; Bedtime UNDER THE PLANE TREE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under my wall / and plane-tree tall Last Line: The home in which they find repose. Subject(s): Lakes; Plane Trees; Rivers; Sea; Pools; Ponds; Sycamores; Ocean WALKING TO OAK-HEAD POND, AND THINKING OF THE PONDS I WILL VISIT IN THE NEXT DAYS AND WEEKS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is so utterly invisible Subject(s): Ponds; Future WATER FOWL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark how the feathered tenants of the flood Last Line: As if they scorned both resting-place and rest! Subject(s): Lakes; Waterfowl; Pools; Ponds WATERS STILL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Neath my casement window Last Line: To my window sill. Subject(s): Lakes; Water; Pools; Ponds WHAT NARCISSUS GAVE THE LAKE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lake loves what it sees, and what it sees Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Lakes; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Pools; Ponds |
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