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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SPOOL OF THREAD, by SOPHIE E. EASTMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, yes, I've lived in texas, since the spring of '61
Last Line: I was but a boy in war time, and I carried him the thread.
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; Texas; Confederacy


AFTER A YEAR IN KOREA, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old uncle oscar hated cold, hauled
Last Line: The bomb, good summers short, %the winters hard, more bitter every year
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Prairies - Texas


AFTER EDEN, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I like snakes my own way, underfoot
Last Line: Where the loading corral is waiting %and a truck backed tight against the ramp
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


AFTER THE FLIGHT HOME FROM SAIGON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the rage for order on the plains
Last Line: In bad weather, not far from my door, %each day laid out forhim, easy to understand
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Variant Title(s): Fence
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


AND TEXAS HAS GONE DRY!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through the mighty lone star empire sounds
Last Line: From louisiana's border to the yellow rio grande!
Subject(s): Temperance; Texas; Prohibition


AT THE FOOTBALL STADIUM, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night, beyond the flooding
Last Line: Beneath the lenses and his fists %he mouthed an o
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


ATMOSPHERIC, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every night I go to bed here in austin
Last Line: Awake in austin, night, heart sings its rapture
Subject(s): Austin, Texas; Death


AUSTIN, TX, by JACK DONAHUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the juncture of congress and colorado
Last Line: In my ageless, tearing eyes
Subject(s): Austin, Texas; Hospitality; Tourists; Travel


BARN ON THE FARM WE'RE BUYING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We slide the barn door wide and cough. Dust swarms
Last Line: We're growing used to, our other odor. %the earth we're beginning to call home
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


BEAUTY IS ELSEWHERE, by BOYCE HOUSE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Truly, there is no beauty in fort worth, no song
Subject(s): Fort Worth, Texas


BEN MILAM, by WILLIAM H. WHARTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oft shall the soldier think of thee
Last Line: Linked with undying liberty!
Subject(s): Milam, Benjamin Rush (1788-1835); Texas Revolution (1835-1836)


BLACK WINGS WHEELING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've seen her lift a calf
Last Line: Lizards with slit mouths, lost dogs, %does with wild eyes and rapidly beating hearts
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


BLUE SKIES, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the crisp reeds
Last Line: Or moving, the wind knowing, %the wind always delivering
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


BRIEF, FAMILIAR STORY OF WINTER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The barn is telling the story of winter
Last Line: And listening, like good children. %they believe it's only a story
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


BUILDING ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chopping down dense mesquites
Last Line: Holding their rattles %tie up and silent
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


CARMELITA, by MIRABEAU BONAPARTE LAMAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O carmelita, know ye not
Last Line: O donna carmelita!
Subject(s): Pioneers; Texas Revolution (1835-1836); West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


CATTLE IN RAIN, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No cow knows what to do in rain
Last Line: In the pasture, they will go on %chewing this green haze forever
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


CAUGHT IN A STORM ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under an oak, I wait out a hailstorm
Last Line: And eats, believing my lie that we're safe, %that nothing can hurt us
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


CHILDREN'S HOUR, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let's try spinning autumn into gold
Last Line: Brighter than the sun going down, %all of us shielding our eyes and silent
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


CITIES, by BOYCE HOUSE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dallas %a pompous-girthed merchant
Subject(s): Dallas, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Houston, Texas


CORPUS CHRISTI, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Corpus,' they say, as in 'habeas.'
Last Line: A christ the angelo half chews down with shrimp
Subject(s): Texas


CRANES, TEXAS JANUARY, by MARK SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I call my wife outdoors to have her listen
Last Line: We stand chilled in the winter of those voices
Subject(s): January; Texas


CREPES FLAMBEAU, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are three women eating out
Last Line: Spotted horses in the frame
Subject(s): Texas


CREPES FLAMBEAU, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are three women eating out
Last Line: We are too happy, too %glad in the pioneer decor: rough boards, %spotted horses in the frame
Subject(s): Texas


DALLAS, by JENNIFER FOOTMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here she is in this tin box thing about to fly from dallas to reno. God
Last Line: He knows and she says nothing
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Dallas, Texas; Travel


DEDUCTIONS FROM THE LAWS OF MOTION, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The countryside is quiet, except that contrail
Last Line: To amaze us all, always on he go %over miles of sand under a spinning moon
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


DEFEAT, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On a train in texas german prisoners eat
Last Line: It is again ourselves whom we defeat
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Texas


DEMONS IN TEXAS, by STEPHEN LOWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Start the truck,' was the call
Last Line: And the early morning hours
Subject(s): Fields; Prairies - Texas


DIGS IN ESCONDIDO CANYON (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night the brazos froze, the trucks are here
Last Line: A harmless drudge who means nobody harm, who only means %to dig for bones he might have loved
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


DOWN IN DALLAS, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down in dallas, down in dallas
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Assassination; Dallas, Texas; Holidays; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Texas


DRIVING HOME TO THE PLAINS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now it begins, the endless golds
Last Line: For bottles, blankets, nothing ever more %but sky, ten million stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


DRYING UP, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Anytime from march through fall
Last Line: Tightens the nuts and in march starts them up %again. He waits. The wells suck deep. The water flows
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


EAST AUSTIN, by PETER LASALLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Palm sunday, and look at how
Last Line: Returns to sleep a sleep as serious as holy week: redemption is near
Subject(s): Redemption; Religion; Texas


EAST TEXAS, by IRENE DENMAN KISER    Poem Text                    
First Line: We're traveling today in east texas
Last Line: Where the red hilly highway ends and starts.
Subject(s): Texas; Travel; Journeys; Trips


EAST TEXAS JUNE, 1939, by ARDATH MAYHAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mornings were fragile hope
Last Line: While a distant mockingbird %signalled victory
Subject(s): Texas


EYES IN GRANDFATHER'S OILS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wolves again. Grandfather roamed these fields
Last Line: Their eyes staring through the canvas %glazed by oils and starving
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


FATHER'S REVOLVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I carried it cold, with pearl handles
Last Line: Over the pasture, coaxing rabbits to hop boldly %in the open, daring rattlesnakes to coil
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


FEEDING THE WINTER CATTLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We lifted bales and dropped them heavy
Last Line: And lifting, heaving it over like ballast %between the dogs,like another christmas visit %dropping a
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


FIDDLES AND STEEL GUITARS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even a stuttering owl knows music
Last Line: And a mad bull backing off and pawing, %about to tear the barn down
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


FINDING MY FATHER'S HANDS IN MID-LIFE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What enters my hand is stiff
Last Line: Of his thumb something we closed on, %muscle we loved
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


GETTING IT DONE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've watched amazed the same burnt sienna
Last Line: Where we live, only brown earth and sky %and in between, all that matters
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


GOAT RANCHING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I could let go and live with the goats
Last Line: Whetting their horns like sabers %on barbed wires
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


GOATS OF SUMMER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The clink of steel diggers rammed
Last Line: Waiting to be strung, a dozen more dry holes %before there'll be some order to this dirt
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


GROWING UP NEAR ESCONDIDO CANYON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With bristles and picks
Last Line: Cow bones or coyotes' %we believed were human, %turning them over and over
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


GULF, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The airport coffee tastes less of america
Last Line: Age after age, the uninstructing dead
Subject(s): Air Travel; Texas; United States


HAWKS IN A BITTER BLIZZARD, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard work alone can't drive blue northers off
Last Line: Nothing in oak or juniper they carve %ever as wild and staring as those eyes
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


HELL IN TEXAS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, the devil in hell they say he was chained"
Last Line: "just dine with a greaser and then you will shout, / I've a hell on the inside as well as without"
Subject(s): Texas


HIGH NOON: GALVESTON BEACH, by STANLEY E. BABB    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blue is the sea: a glittering incredible blue
Subject(s): Galveston, Texas


HOMESICK IN TEXAS, by ANN COBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grandsir' fell out of his cornfield and broke his neck
Last Line: Only ole pine top can fill.
Subject(s): Homesickness; Texas; Wellesley College


HONEY MAN, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a bear, uncle murphy could line bees
Last Line: Yellow as butter, dark bittersweet mesquite, %white lightning, sweet copper combs
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


IN BLANCO COUNTY, by RUSSELL T. FOWLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down here now %summer's burnt skeins
Last Line: That life, if nothing else, %is something he knows
Subject(s): Texas


IN THE GENERAL AREA OF NORTH TEXAS, by SCOTT CAIRNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Except for what is very old (the failing
Last Line: By two bright green metal nameplates with bright green names: %casa verde, san verde, verde acres, v
Subject(s): Texas


IRRITABLE ALIENS, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Texas, texas jack omohundro
Last Line: Take us there, pronto
Subject(s): Aliens; Texas; Extraterrestrials


JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All generous hearts lament the leader killed
Last Line: The promise of his spirit be fulfilled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Assassination; Dallas, Texas; Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Lament; Presidents, United States; Dead, The


LASCA, by FRANK DESPREZ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I want free life, and I want fresh air
Last Line: In texas, down by the rio grande.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Texas; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


LEAVING THE MIDDLE YEARS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slow blues beckon us to move
Last Line: Sentimental enough for lovers bound %by more than rings and wrinkles %deeper than any scars
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


LIKE SOMEONE DRIVING TO TEXAS BY HERSELF, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A car that could not pass inspection an expired license
Last Line: Like someone driving to texas
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Solitude; Texas


LIVING ON OPEN PLAINS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We thought we knew these flat
Last Line: Where are the coyotes, now? %where is the sand running to?
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


LOSING A BOAT ON THE BRAZOS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Downriver rocks were rapids. Believe me
Last Line: Like old bones mired in mud we've proved %can rise and walk again
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


MAKING BOOK ON THE AQUIFER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When it doesn't rain, we water
Last Line: Wherever others on the road a mile away %are going, we are here
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


MARRIAGE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The neighbors' dogs have howled at the last
Last Line: Animals trot by outside our window %for the blesing of names
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Prairies - Texas


MEMENTO MORI, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've seen her pose a skull
Last Line: Wearing a skull, painted in clouds %and ground we could stand on
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


MERCY AND THE BRAZOS RIVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD                        Poet's Biography
First Line: My great-greats came to hardscrabble plains
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Prairies - Texas; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Plains - Texas


MERCY AND THE BRAZOS RIVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My great-greats came to hardscrabble plains
Last Line: Caliche canyon and haul back barrels of water %from the river of the arms of god
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Prairies - Texas; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


MONOLITH, WEST TEXAS, by RICHARD LYONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peach on the dash, meaty compass I taste to the pit-stone
Last Line: Rising & falling through apparitions of itself
Subject(s): Texas


MOON-MAIDEN (A VISION OF THE TEXAS RANGERS), by RUTH MAXWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fire cracked dry brush on the level sand
Last Line: With an onyx spoon.
Subject(s): Texas Rangers


MOUNDS AT ESTACACO, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hawks alone could have loved it
Last Line: Cows and romping calves in all directions, %bumblebees roaming the miles of cactus
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


MY BROTHER IN SUMMER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here on the texas plains he wakes at five
Last Line: Leaves at work, sighing oxygen, %pushing itself toward its own white death
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


NAPPING ON THE GREYHOUND, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's christmas eve in texas
Last Line: "from planet zizz. ""very tasteful antennae."
Subject(s): Buses; Greyhounds; Texas; Travel; Journeys; Trips


NIGHT MISSIONS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight will be like any other night
Last Line: Blue wings climbing somebody's dreams, %tuned blades humminglike mercy
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


NIGHT OF RATTLESNAKE CHILI, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only the lure of a rattler kept us
Last Line: Was cold and sweeter than most %and steel spoons melted in our mouths
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


NOAH, by WILLIAM LOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: That great false texas sky, the color of oatmeal
Last Line: Even two dogs that struck and quarreled like wolves
Subject(s): Spring; Texas


NOT WANTED--THE TEXAS RANGERS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out in the sun-blaze, one to ten
Last Line: And now they've no use for the rangers!
Variant Title(s): Not Wanted-the Texas Rangers
Subject(s): Texas Rangers


OF DUST THOU ART, by LARRY D. THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In van horn, in far west texas
Last Line: Like slabs of red earth, and they pray
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Texas


OLD MEN FISHING AT BROWNWOOD, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spitting tobacco juice on hooks
Last Line: Pneumonia or stroke, the hiss of fangs %nearby on a shimmer of water
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


ON A SCREENED PORCH IN THE COUNTRY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We scan the sky for jets whose radios and dead
Last Line: We leave the porch light off and rock in darkness, %watchingwild eyes flashing in the fields
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Variant Title(s): Living On Hardscrabbl
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


ONE THAT GOT AWAY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We took turns eating ammonia dirt
Last Line: Four hooves in the air forevr, %his mane like flames of gold
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


PANHANDLE, by LARRY MCWHORTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the short grass struggles daily
Last Line: Don't stop except for food or gas, %so, it's not a total loss
Subject(s): Ranch Life; Texas


PLAINS AND THE ART OF WRITING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A prairie lays its mystery face up
Last Line: Long muscles flowing %over the old, familiar sand
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


POINT OF ROCKS, TEXAS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stones in my heart
Last Line: Looks like a simple stripe.
Subject(s): Clouds; Mountains; Prairies; Stones; Texas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains; Granite; Rocks


PRAISE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the threat of summer, trees
Last Line: That never go anywhere all winter, %and somehow survive
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


RIG-SITTING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the derrick, I twist this wrench tight
Last Line: How many times a bit goes around %before breaking
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


ROCK SOFTLY IN MY ARMS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forget the bells, the call to order
Last Line: In my arms and hold me, girl, %this night won't last for long
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


ROSE OF CASA MIA, by LOU LOVEKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down in texas by the rio, don ricardo's villa lay
Subject(s): Texas


SAILOR'S SONG, by HAZEL HARPER HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I sail home to galveston
Subject(s): Galveston, Texas; Sea


SAM BASS (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "sam bass was born in indiana, it was his native home"
Last Line: But if I'm right in my surmise he's gone the other way
Subject(s): "bass, Sam (1851-1878);crimes & Criminals;texas Rangers;


SAN ANTONIO MEMORIES, by RUDOLPH N. HILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the arches dark, on green
Last Line: All loveliness is san antone.
Subject(s): Alamo; San Antonio, Texas


SAN ANTONIO, REPUBLIC OF TEXAS, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cowboys are %in san antonio
Last Line: It is still a penetrable alamo. %the miniature model inside:%thousands of little dead %soldiers
Subject(s): Cowboys; Mexican American Families; San Antonio, Texas


SEINING FOR CARP, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The carp keep coming back, no matter how many
Last Line: Carp wait in the open, catchable, all the carp %in our lives easy to seine and toss to the cats
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


SENSE OF SMELL, by HUGH STEINBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was driving through north texas
Last Line: We get used to everything
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Texas


SETTLING THE PLAINS (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD                        Poet's Biography
First Line: For here and for the afterlife
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Religion; Plains - Texas; Theology


SETTLING THE PLAINS (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For here and for the afterlife
Last Line: Would live, if it was god's will %and the wind blew
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Religion


SIX YEARS AFTER WACO, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who else among the contra'd congregations kneels
Last Line: And was that texas conflagration %hot enough?
Subject(s): Political Campaigns; Texas


SKETCHES OF THE TEXAS PRAIRIE: 'APRIL RAINS', by GEORGE BOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is magic in the april rains
Last Line: Of vivid texas flowers.
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Rain; Plains - Texas


SOME TOWNS OF TEXAS, by KARLE WILSON BAKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I went but once to san antonio
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte
Subject(s): Austin, Texas; Dallas, Texas; Houston, Texas


SONG FROM THE TRAFFIC, by MARGARET BELLE HOUSTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The black haw is in flower again
Last Line: One a-galloping a thousand miles away!)
Alternate Author Name(s): Probert, W. H, Mrs.; Houston, Margaret Bell
Subject(s): Flowers; Texas


SONG OF TEXAS, by WILLIAM HENRY CUYLER HOSMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Make room on our banner bright
Last Line: "that spangle your banner bright."
Subject(s): Texas Revolution (1835-1836)


SONG OF THE TEXAS RANGERS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The morning star is paling
Subject(s): American Civil War; Texas Rangers; U.s. - History


STARTING A PASTURE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This far out in the country no one is talking
Last Line: Honking, sticking their heads out the windows and laughing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Plains - Texas


STARTING A PASTURE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flooded with sun, this ranch looks like a rice field
Last Line: Imported from wyoming, a flock of ostriches which came %lastnight by train, wide eyed and panting
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


SUNDOWN, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He's not alone, the old bull
Last Line: The weight of the farm %and the long day disappear
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


TAKING EACH DEEP BREATH, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rain, the long arm of thunder, reaches us
Last Line: Gliding under the crack of thunder, %taking each deep breath to let it go
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


TEXAS, by ALLA COALSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O texas, my texas, my native state
Last Line: In the minds and hearts of thy people.
Subject(s): Texas


TEXAS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went a-riding, a-riding
Last Line: Beyond, beyond, my bridle-rein.
Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Texas


TEXAS RANGER (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come all you texas rangers, wherever you may be
Subject(s): Texas Rangers


TEXAS RANGER (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the age of sixteen
Subject(s): Texas Rangers


TEXAS RANGER (3), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My name 'tis nothing extra
Subject(s): Texas Rangers


TEXAS: VOICE OF NEW ENGLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the hillside, down the glen
Last Line: "blessed of our fathers' god!"
Subject(s): Slavery; Texas; Serfs


THAT TEXAS CATTLE MAN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We rode the tawny texan hills
Last Line: "she's dead this twenty year."
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Cattle; Love; Texas


THE 'TEXAS'; SEEN FROM THE BEACH AT ATLANTIC CITY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair in the white array of peace
Last Line: Or be it peace, or be it war!
Subject(s): Texas


THE DEFENSE OF THE ALAMO [MARCH 6, 1835], by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Santa ana [anna] came storming, as a storm might come
Last Line: When duty fronts death in his alamo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Alamo; Bowie, James (1796-1836); Crockett, Davy (1786-1836); Patriotism; Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez De (1794-1876); Texas Revolution (1835-1836); Travis, William Barret (1809-1836)


THE DEVIL IN TEXAS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He scattered tarantulas over the roads
Last Line: "just dine with a mexican, then you will shout, / 'I've hell on the inside as well as the out!'"
Subject(s): Texas


THE EYE OF TEXAS, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Santa maria, madre mia, your sparrows tugged
Subject(s): Chicanos; Texas


THE FIGHT AT SAN JACINTO [APRIL 21, 1836], by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now for a brisk and cheerful fight!'
Last Line: And the texan star flashed out.
Subject(s): Houston, Sam (1793-1863); Patriotism; Revenge; San Jacinton, Battle Of (1836); Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez De (1794-1876); Texas Revolution (1835-1836)


THE GULF, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The airport coffee tastes less of america
Subject(s): Air Travel; Texas; United States; America


THE MEN OF THE ALAMO, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To houston at gonzales town, ride, ranger, for your life
Last Line: "thermopylae left one alive -- the alamo left none."
Subject(s): Alamo; Bowie, James (1796-1836); Courage; Crockett, Davy (1786-1836); Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez De (1794-1876); Texas Revolution (1835-1836); Travis, William Barret (1809-1836); Valor; Bravery


THE TRANSFORMATION OF A TEXAS GIRL, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She was a texas maiden, she came of low degree
Last Line: Had rested there for ages above a flow of oil?
Subject(s): Cowboys; Petroleum; Ranch Life; Texas; West (u.s.); Oil; Southwest; Pacific States


THE VALOR OF BEN MILAM, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, who will follow ben milam into san antonio?
Last Line: In song be praised, let a rouse be raised for the name of ben milam!
Subject(s): Bexar, Siege Of (1835); Milam, Benjamin Rush (1788-1835); Texas Revolution (1835-1836)


THE WILD-BEES, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All along the brazos river
Last Line: Was the fertile land of texas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pioneers; Texas; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THINGS ABOUT TO DISAPPAR, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pronghorns the size of fawns
Last Line: Theynvr pause, before our eyes they fade %like a legend and run for mils
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


TIED UP UNDER TREES, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not when the moccasin sidles
Last Line: The wide white border of his mouth, %and inside, all tongue and fangs
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


TO A SOUTHERN STATESMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is this thy voice whose treble notes of fear
Last Line: And heave the engineer of evil with his mine.
Subject(s): Calhoun, John C. (1782-1850); Oregon; Slavery; Texas; Serfs


TORNADO CHASING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At night the cb crackles
Last Line: In flashes. They gasp like me %and breathe the name of god
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Tornadoes


TRAINS, UP CLOSE AND FAR AWAY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hearing a faint train whistle
Last Line: Wail long after any human hand %could have pulled the cord
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


UNCLE BUBBA AND THE BUZZARDS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old uncle bubba wore scuffed leather
Last Line: Sweaty glove rubbing his horse, %his stiff boots thudding in the straw
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


UNCLE ROLLIE AND THE LAWS OF WATER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The windmill pumps an old, slow action up and down
Last Line: Water trickling through a rusted pipe, faithful %after all these years, the dry, split blades still
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


WEEDS BARN OWLS, ALL NIBBLING GOATS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We chop these weeds with hoes filed shiny
Last Line: Sometimes an owl blinded by sunlight, %weaving from barn to barn
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


WHATEVER GROUND WE WALK ON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We walk until the moon rises
Last Line: Yet here we are, not even touching %and the moon is up, and rushing
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


WHATEVER IT TAKES (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In pakistan, three elephants go around
Last Line: To prop it, stomps down around this post %to wedge it tight between two perfect stones
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


WHEN CHILDREN THINK YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Living on hardscrabble, a man is less
Last Line: And comb my hair and shave, roll down my sleeves %and go inside as if nothing's happened
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


WHERE THE TREES GO, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In time they all rise up
Last Line: The other trees look down %and find them missing
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


WILDCATTING, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the cramped cab of a pickup, we bump down
Last Line: Drunk on the constant spinning, each twist %of the bit like love, trying it over and over
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


WIND AND HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's wind, not rain, dry cattle need
Last Line: And muzzle deep in stock tanks %filled and overflowing
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


WINDMILLS NEAR ESCONDIDO, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Relax, it's friday, nothing to do
Last Line: How many gallons spin on a windmill, %how many rain clouds wishs build
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


WINTER BEFORE THE WAR (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One winter, sledgehammers couldn't break ice
Last Line: And drank and cursed our luck, and tried to ignore %stiff wind and shingles banging overhead
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas


WITCHING ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farming on dry land, a man keeps his witch-stick
Last Line: Brought in elsewhere in texas. With my own eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Variant Title(s): Witching
Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Prairies - Texas; Water; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains - Texas


WOMAN ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My wife is not afraid of dark
Last Line: So if our children wake and cry %for light, there will be light
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas