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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SWAMPS Matches Found: 77 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHESAPEAKE MARSH, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Willows and willows in two gust-worn rows Last Line: And leagues of water empty of a ship. Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes A MARSH MESSAGE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The melancholy marshes brood Last Line: The young fresh soul that was so fair? Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Soul; Swamps; Voices; Dead, The; Ocean; Bogs; Fens; Marshes A SONG, by ALLAN DAVIS Poem Text First Line: The water-thrushes play Last Line: Shining like a rose.) Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Singing & Singers; Swamps; Songs; Bogs; Fens; Marshes A SWAMP TRAGEDY, by I. V. Poem Text First Line: In andrus swamp, out hastings way Last Line: Laugh if you will -- not I! Subject(s): Hastings, England; Swamps; Tragedy; Bogs; Fens; Marshes ACROSS THE SWAMP, by OLAV H. HAUGE Poem Source First Line: It is the roots from all the trees that have died Last Line: To water and eternity Subject(s): Men; Swamps BEND OF SPILLING, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: The face of where once was Subject(s): Nature; Swamps BOG LANDS, by WILLIAM A. BYRNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The purple heather is the cloak Alternate Author Name(s): Dara, William Subject(s): Swamps BOGLAND; FOR T.P. FLANAGAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have no prairies Subject(s): Ireland; Swamps; Irish; Bogs; Fens; Marshes BOGLAND; FOR T.P. FLANAGAN, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have no prairies Last Line: The wet centre is bottomless Subject(s): Ireland; Swamps CASUALTIES: 7. THE REIGN OF THE CROCODILE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They say, %because the alligator is stark deaf Last Line: Not one knew the song Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Crocodiles; Leadership; Swamps CONFUSED IN PASSAGE, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: We do not keep them Subject(s): Nature; Swamps DOWN THE BAYOU, by MARY ASHLEY TOWNSEND Poem Text First Line: The cypress swamp around me wraps its spell Last Line: And through the gloom the wild deer shyly gaze. Alternate Author Name(s): Xariffa Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes EDGE OF THE SWAMP, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a wild spot, and even in summer hours Subject(s): Swamps FROG AUTUMN, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer grows old, cold-blooded mother Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes FROG AUTUMN, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer grows old, cold-blooded mother Last Line: Houses himself elsewhere. Our folk thin %lamentably Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Swamps GREY AS ROADS, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: To leave in winter %grey Subject(s): Nature; Swamps HANDSOME SWAMP, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knows it's a handsome swamp: the alligators Last Line: And gather in ods, %sniffing the air Subject(s): Swamps HAVE NO MERCY, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smoke swamp / the rupestral images of the unknown Last Line: Like a viper born from the blond force of respendrnce Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Swamps HERE IN THE MARSHES, by ELISABETH G. PALMER Poem Source First Line: Here are cowslips wading Subject(s): Farm Life; Swamps HOLLOW OF ITS SHAPE, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: The shape of dunes Subject(s): Nature; Swamps HOW THE FIRE QUEEN CROSSED THE SWAMP, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flood was down in the wilga swamps, three feet over the mud Last Line: "him through!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Devil; Floods; Horses; Swamps; Trucks & Trucking; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Bogs; Fens; Marshes HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: MARSH SONG - AT SUNSET, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the monstrous shambling sea, / over the caliban sea Last Line: Baltimore, 1879 - 80. Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: SUNRISE, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Last Line: The day being done. Subject(s): Holidays; Plants; Sun; Swamps; Trees; Planting; Planters; Bogs; Fens; Marshes HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: THE MARSHES OF GLYNN, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven Last Line: On the length and the breadth of the marvellous marshes of glynn. Variant Title(s): The Marshes Of Glynn Subject(s): Religion; Swamps; Theology; Bogs; Fens; Marshes I WANT TO GO BACK, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Isn't that a wound? Subject(s): Boys; Children; Farm Life; Nature; Seasons; Swamps IN A JON BOAT DURING A FLORIDA DAWN, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight displaces stars Last Line: Or the red tick anchored in the pit of your knee. Subject(s): Boats; Florida; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes IN THE MARSHES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We do not know in the marsh Last Line: And the waters grey with fear. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Swamps; Wales; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bogs; Fens; Marshes; Welshmen; Welshwomen IN THE TELLING, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Long buried useless in the road Subject(s): Nature; Swamps IT REMAINS TO TELL ME OF THE FIRST, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: We may not share those others came Subject(s): Nature; Swamps JENKINS. THE JENKINS PIECE OR JENKINS BOG, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Than an undistinguished cranberry bog Subject(s): Nature; Swamps LOST ROADS ARE THOSE, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Chance for telling %foretelling Subject(s): Nature; Swamps MANY THINGS ARE LEFT, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: A whisper of this grass impoverished Subject(s): Nature; Swamps MARENGO, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the sump rise the marigolds. Subject(s): Death; Swamps; Dead, The; Bogs; Fens; Marshes MARSH MATERNAL, by MARGARET MCGARVEY Poem Text First Line: What hunted things a marsh can hide Last Line: When the marsh is clothed in mist. Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes MARSH MUSIC, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: A thread of sea is sewn in the green land Last Line: Of the sea's sound -- attenuated clang. Subject(s): Blackbirds; Sea; Swamps; Ocean; Bogs; Fens; Marshes MARSH-GRASS, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the marsh-grass blowing Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs. Subject(s): Swamps MARSHLANDS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thin wet sky, that yellows at the rim Last Line: Thick, grey and humid, while the marshes sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes NEAR HUNSTANTON, by MICHAEL HOFMANN Poem Source First Line: These are my own crows in a mechanical flap Last Line: My jellyfish that you trod on in your sensible shoes Subject(s): Geese; Swamps OLD WOUNDS / OLD ROADS, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: A journey to no end Subject(s): Nature; Swamps ON ROMNEY MARSH AT SUNRISE, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Lest it have sight no more Subject(s): Swamps; Love PASTORALE, by VALERIE MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Now the turtle comes up from the pond, snapping Last Line: Moves forth and the tongue indulges %its mottled message Subject(s): Swamps; Turtles POOR IN ANSWERS AS THE GRASS, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: As the only voice in hearing's mine Subject(s): Nature; Swamps RAIN, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All afternoon it rained, then Subject(s): Rain; Barbed Wire; Swamps; Fathers; Gardens & Gardening; Forests; Life; Bogs; Fens; Marshes; Woods ROAD FOR MEETING, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Where the road once was %it does not heal Subject(s): Nature; Swamps ROADS IN SEEMING, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: And are the same the dunes Subject(s): Nature; Swamps SALT MARSH, by DEBORAH CUMMINS Poem Source First Line: Here, love, on the salt marsh Last Line: Or, like the stars, the moon beckons Subject(s): Love; Relationships; Salt; Swamps SECOND SHAMAN SONG, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Squat in swamp shadows. Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes SEVEN POEMS: 5, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Weather hand Last Line: Gets for his efforts a bright shaft %of loss Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Swamps SO CERTAIN, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: So much so little grass Subject(s): Nature; Swamps SOME ROADS REMAIN, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Old wounds that fester %do not heal Variant Title(s): As Roads Remai Subject(s): Nature; Swamps SOUNDING HARVEY CREEK, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full 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 SPELL/ OR TELL ME OF A TIME, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: What ventures here so poor in telling Subject(s): Nature; Swamps STILL LEFT TO TELL, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: What there is a place in telling Subject(s): Nature; Swamps SUGGESTIONS, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scent of the wide, wet marshes Last Line: Like a startled memory. Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes SWAMP, by DAVID GILL Poem Source First Line: Dry-season dust-trails dogged the cars along Last Line: Look, sir, the grasses have grown tall again Subject(s): Swamps; Uganda SWAMP, by BEATRICE WITTE RAVENEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love called me like a beacon on a hill Subject(s): Swamps SWAMP, by ROBERTA HILL WHITEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tamaracks swing light away Last Line: My red belief lies curled in mud. %a soft hot star hugged by the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Hill, Roberta Subject(s): Swamps TELL ME, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Tell their stories of the roads their myth Subject(s): Nature; Swamps TELL ME OF A ROAD STILL USED, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: That lies in grass no longer road Subject(s): Nature; Swamps TELL ME OF OTHER TIMES, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Formed in rain and wind a similar Subject(s): Nature; Swamps TELL ME OF THE CHANCE AGAIN, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Of the grass that whispers there Subject(s): Nature; Swamps TELL ME THERE ARE MANY THINGS LEFT, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: What are things still left to tell? Subject(s): Nature; Swamps TELL ME/ THE MANY THINGS HAVE FADED, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: The roads that lie beyond their telling Subject(s): Nature; Swamps THE FROG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who am I but the frog -- the frog Last Line: And grace to his royal whim! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Courts & Courtiers; Frogs; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE HANDSOME SWAMP, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knows it's a handsome swamp: the alligators Last Line: Sniffing the air Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE JERSEY MARSHES, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When april rains and the great spring-tide Last Line: Twice in the day, continuously. Subject(s): New Jersey; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP; WRITTEN AT NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They made her a grave, too cold and damp Last Line: And paddle their white canoe! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): A Ballad Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE MARSH AND THE SEA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The marsh is full of ocean. Proud, serene Last Line: Down in the blessed deeps of life that you and god are one. Subject(s): God; Sea; Swamps; Ocean; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE MARSH-HOUSE, by JAMES E. RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Far out upon the great green sedge it stands Last Line: Instance of things full merciful as these. Subject(s): Houses; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE MARSHES, by MABEL WARD RUDD Poem Text First Line: Where, through rank thatch, the grasping sea has put Last Line: To see the last trace of the marshes pass? Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Native Americans; Swamps; Urban Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE MARSHLANDS, by EDWARD NELSON TEALL Poem Text First Line: Oh, the marshlands of new jersey Last Line: Blowing wind and flowing tide. Subject(s): New Jersey; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes VAGG HOLLOW, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you see in vagg hollow Last Line: "but I'm not afraid at all!" Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes VERSES ON THE 'LOW FEN-MAN', by BILL HALL Poem Source First Line: Born in a coy, and bred in a mill Last Line: Looking hingles and sprinks, trammels, hoop-nets and teamings, %few persons I think can explain all Subject(s): Swamps WADING IN A MARSH, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing here in this rain-fed marsh Subject(s): Swamps; Walking; Bogs; Fens; Marshes WETLANDS, by RONALD SMITS Poem Source First Line: Let me legislate for wetlands Last Line: Rapids that we ride for pleasure Subject(s): Nature; Swamps WHITE FRINGED-ORCHIS, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low swampy ground, with spagnum moss Last Line: The candles of the lord. Subject(s): Earth; Love; Swamps; World; Bogs; Fens; Marshes WOUNDS TO COME REMAIN, by THEODORE VERNON ENSLIN Poem Source Last Line: Something is %that will not change Subject(s): Nature; Swamps |
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