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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG OF CALDEY (TO THE PRIOR AND BENEDICTINE BRETHREN ON THE ISLAND), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The red roofs of caldey are gleaming in the sun
Last Line: That the glory of the land they love shall never pass away.
Subject(s): Caldey Island, Wales; Peace; Tides; Travel; Wales; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen


AN APRIL SEQUENCE: 2. TIDING, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When all the tides of april
Last Line: And white, and fair.
Subject(s): Flowers; Sea; Spring; Tides; Ocean


BOOK OF VERSES TO E.V.M.: 7. TIDES, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These infinite green motions
Last Line: Or hermit moon declining
Subject(s): Tides


COMING OUT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Coming out of the cave
Last Line: Frank, behave!
Subject(s): Tides


DOWN TIME'S QUAINT STREAM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or schedule of the tide
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Tides; Wind


EACH THAT WE LOSE TAKES PART OF US, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is summoned by the tides
Subject(s): Death; Tides


EBB TIDE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slowly thy flowing tide
Last Line: Then hasten to old age!
Subject(s): Aging; Avon (river), England; Rivers; Tides


FALL TIDES, by FRANCES B. HUSTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Air, like ocean, has its tides
Last Line: Of throbbing sea and onward rushing tide.
Subject(s): Tides


FIRES OF DRIFTWOOD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On what long tides
Last Line: Ashes blown along the shore!
Subject(s): Driftwood; Fire; Sea Voyages; Tides


HIGH TIDE ON THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT: 1. THE SEA'S SALUTATION, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The immense life of the sea, out of remote horizons
Last Line: Passing, under the clatter of wheels and of crowding feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): London; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Tides; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901)


HILL TIDES, by FRANCES STOCKWELL LOVELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: These rolling billows of the hills
Last Line: And wash it golden clean for me.
Subject(s): Mountains; Summer; Tides; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


IF SOMETHING SHOULD HAPPEN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For instance / if the sea should break
Subject(s): Erosion; Seashore; Tides; Beach; Coast; Shore


IF SOMETHING SHOULD HAPPEN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For instance %if the sea should break
Last Line: Where will the captains run and %to what harbor?
Subject(s): Erosion; Seashore; Tides


IMPRESSIONS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The virent salt-marsh tide is high to-night
Last Line: Sh!
Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Tides; Weather; Ocean


IN THE WOODS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was in the woods today
Last Line: And, hearing, are beatified?
Subject(s): Birds; Tides


INCOMING TIDE, by DORA HAGEMEYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: How anxiously the waves rush in and break!
Last Line: Disturb and fill with restlessness the soul.
Subject(s): Tides


IT LEAVES THEM, by EUGENE W. RELLUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tide ebbs %to where it came from
Last Line: Who will let %you believe?
Subject(s): Tides; Water


JACK, by ANITA OLACHEA BUCCI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You and I have a lot in common,' I tell him, as we bundle up on the
Last Line: We shiver in the sun: who said there's nothing new beneath it?
Subject(s): Disasters; Floods; Rivers; Tides; Water


LINDISFARNE, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O rocky the islet
Last Line: "made one with the land!"
Subject(s): Tides; Islands


LOW TIDE, by GLORIA DUNLAP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Air rank
Last Line: Losing %its %prime
Subject(s): Tides


LOW TIDE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds are gathering over the dunes
Last Line: Why did you bring me down to the sea?
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Sea; Tides; Ocean


LOW TIDE A.M., by JOHN WILLSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: An ancient octopus, blasted
Last Line: And consign last night to sea water
Subject(s): Sea Monsters; Tides


LOW TIDE ON GRAND-PRE, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun goes down, and over all
Last Line: In grief the flood is bursting home.
Subject(s): Grand Pre, Nova Scotia; Tides


MY BOAT, CUT, by KUJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: My boat, cut from tallest pine
Last Line: Back into dark rip tides
Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Love - Loss Of; Tides


NEAP-TIDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far off is the sea, and the land is afar
Last Line: In the sun and the wind and the sea.
Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Tides; Ocean


NORTHWIND ESCARPMENT, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mirrors in the hall were a strange backwater
Last Line: We always knew it was possible.
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Tides; Male-female Relations


ROCKS, by NATALIE M. HANCOCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rocks - hoary with age - bearded with barnacles - crouching low
Last Line: Is it the music of god, turning life's pages?
Subject(s): Sea; Stones; Tides; Ocean; Granite; Rocks


SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 2. THE TIDE, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tide makes music
Last Line: With rustle of scales.
Subject(s): Sea; Tides; Ocean


SEA DREAMS, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sailor, sailor, why must you go
Last Line: Playing with dreams by the sea.
Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Tides; Water


SONG ON WATCHING THE TIDE AT QIANTANG, by ZHU ROUZE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside the 'tide-waiting gate,' people are like ants
Last Line: A bend of blue river, ten thousand miles of autumn
Subject(s): Tides


SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wrack is lapping in the pools, the sea's lip feels the sand
Last Line: Or with dull thunders plunge from shore to shore.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Prayer; Salvation; Sea; Tides; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Ocean


SUMMER, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be of this brightness dyed
Last Line: That fears no other
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Islands; Tides


THE BOAST OF THE TIDES, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brief is the power ye assume
Last Line: Lords over all!
Subject(s): Tides


THE BURTHEN OF THE TIDE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tide was dark and heavy with the burden that it bore
Last Line: For more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Tides; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


THE DEEP, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I must have peace, increasing peace
Last Line: Be spun from dust.
Subject(s): Courage; Tides; Winter; Valor; Bravery


THE EBBING TIDE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A long low gurgle down the strand
Last Line: Dense blue beneath the dense blue skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Sea; Sky; Tides; Ocean


THE FUGITIVE, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fool, fool
Last Line: The tides enfolding thee?
Subject(s): Immortality; Tides


THE HIGH TIDE AT [OR, ON THE COAST OF] LINCOLNSHIRE, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old mayor climbed the belfry tower
Last Line: "jetty, to the milking-shed!"
Variant Title(s): The Brides Of Enderby
Subject(s): Death; Floods; Lincolnshire, England; Tides; Dead, The


THE NEW MOON, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do you shiver? Has the air grown chill?
Last Line: There is no light could make your eyes more blue!
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Beauty; Light; Moon; Spring; Tides


THE PHANTOM LINER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The fog lay deep on georges bank
Last Line: Into the fog again
Subject(s): Fog;seashore;ships - Abandoning Of;tides;waves; Haze;beach;coast;shore


THE RISING TIDE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An idle man, I stroll at eve
Last Line: And still the lessening light is sweet.
Subject(s): Evening; Seashore; Tides; Walking; Sunset; Twilight; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE RIVER RUNNING TO THE SEA, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The river running to the sea
Last Line: To front the larger sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Rivers; Sea; Strength; Tides; Water; Ocean


THE TIDE, by FLORENCE EUGENIA HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tide is out and though the sky is bright
Last Line: If I can but hold on, the tide will soon be in.
Subject(s): Sea; Sky; Tides; Ocean


THE TIDES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon is at her full, and, riding high
Last Line: In a serener sphere.
Subject(s): Tides


THE TURNING OF THE TIDE, by HELEN MOWE PHILBROOK    Poem Text                    
First Line: We talked, the half-remembered sea beside
Last Line: Across the withering blossoms of my soul.
Subject(s): Tides


THREE THINGS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three things puzzled aristotle's wife:
Last Line: The mind of her man.
Subject(s): Aristotle (384-322 B.c.); Bees; Insects; Reason; Tides; Women


TIDE, by MICHAEL PAUL NOVAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tide rises as sure as the moon
Last Line: It makes an island of hours %where we wait for its sure fall%into the lake of night
Subject(s): Tides


TIDE AT NOON, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the time comes that he can sail no longer
Last Line: Float bridges of boats and dead bodies from the mud, like corks
Subject(s): Noon; Sailors And Sailing; Tides


TIDE TURNING, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through salt marsh, grassy channel where the shark's
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Seashore; Tides; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents; Beach; Coast; Shore


TIDE TURNING, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through salt marsh, grassy channel where the shark's
Last Line: Carouse on the affluent kisses of the tide
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Seashore; Tides


TIDE-WASH, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the laughing stream
Last Line: Exposed more than ever
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Tides


TIDES, by WILL H. BLACKWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here where tides come and go
Last Line: They also move in spheres of retrogression and wash %the highest earthly bloom of matter's brief com
Subject(s): Tides


TIDES, by INEZ BARCLAY KIRBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once more you journey outward, weary tide
Last Line: Must vanish with the ebb tide's old despair.
Subject(s): Tides; Water


TIDES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here to the sweep of the shore
Last Line: Shall send to pilot thee.
Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Tides; Wales; Water; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore; Welshmen; Welshwomen


TIDES, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first wave of a new tide hardly
Subject(s): Tides


TIDES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like inland streams, o sea
Last Line: Than in our tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Tides


TIDES, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love in my heart was a fresh tide flowing
Last Line: Are broken forevermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Tides


ULTIMA THULE: THE TIDE RISES, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tide rises, the tide falls
Last Line: And the tide rises, the tide falls.
Subject(s): Sea; Tides; Ocean


WAVES AND TIDES, by JOHN RENWICK TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: In sweep the waves to wash the sands
Last Line: Of laughing ever after.
Subject(s): Laughter; Sea; Seashore; Tides; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


WHO BADE THE WAVES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who bade the wavs, like horsemen of bornu, stop
Last Line: All boiling with stone
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Seashore; Tides; Waves