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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BORDER AFFAIR, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spanish is the lovin' tongue
Last Line: "adios, mi corazon."
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Love - Cultural Differences; Love Affairs; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


A COWBOY ALONE WITH HIS CONSCIENCE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I ride into the mountains on my little broncho
Last Line: When thar ain't nobody near him, 'ceptin' god.
Subject(s): Conscience; Cowboys; Ranch Life; Solitude; West (u.s.); Loneliness; Southwest; Pacific States


A COWBOY AT THE CARNIVAL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "yes, o' cose it's interestin' to a feller from the range"
Last Line: An' he thinks o' nothin' but his grub an' hoss an' steers
Subject(s): Carnivals;cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


A COWBOY RACE, by JO CULBERTSON DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A pattering rush like the rattle of hail
Last Line: The gauntlet is flung and the race is begun!
Subject(s): Competition; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


A COWBOY SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I could not be so well content
Subject(s): Cowboys;man-woman Relationships;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Male-female Relations;southwest;pacific States


A COWBOY TOAST, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's to the passing cowboy, the plowman's pioneer
Last Line: With cattle, cattle, cattle, and sage and sand and sun.
Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


A COWBOY'S HOPELESS LOVE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've heard that story ofttimes about that little chap
Last Line: An' shun the loco weed o' love when there's an angel round.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


A COWBOY'S LOVE SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, the last steer has been branded"
Subject(s): Cowboys;love;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


A COWBOY'S SON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "whar y'u from, little stranger, little boy?"
Subject(s): Boys;cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


A COWBOY'S WORRYING LOVE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I ust to read in the novel books 'bout fellers that
Last Line: An' a-throwin' the breath o' life away bunched up into sighs. Heigh-ho!
Subject(s): Cowboys; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


A DANCE AT THE RANCH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "from every point they gaily come, the bronco's unshod feet"
Subject(s): Cowboys;dancing & Dancers;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


A DANCE FOR RAIN (AT COCHITI, NEW MEXICO), by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You may never see rain, unless you see
Last Line: Rain, rain in cochiti!
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Cochiti, New Mexico; Dancing & Dancers; Hopi Indians; Native Americans; Rain; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


A DIRGE; OVER A COMPANION KILLED BY COMANCHES AND BURIED ON PRAIRIE, by ALBERT PIKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy wife shall wait
Last Line: Must leave thee here alone. Once more farewell!
Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


A GOLDEN DREAM, by KATHRYN ROESER DUNLAP    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun came out of the east
Last Line: And found a place in the west.
Subject(s): California - Gold Discoveries; Frontier & Pioneer Life; West (u.s.); Gold Rush; Forty-niners; Southwest; Pacific States


A LIVING PEARL, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At sixteen I came west, riding
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Youth; Southwest; Pacific States


A MAN'S VOCATION IS NOBODY'S BUSINESS, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Overcome with humility in the american west
Last Line: Bound for the edge of the world
Subject(s): History; Past; West (u.s.); Youth; Historians; Southwest; Pacific States


A NEVADA COWPUNCHER TO HIS BELOVED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "lonesome? Well, I guess so!"
Subject(s): Cowboys;nevada;ranch Life;solitude;west (u.s.); Loneliness;southwest;pacific States


A PERIOD PORTRAIT OF SYMPATHY, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Captain emmet crawford
Last Line: And the scouts love his weirdness
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Apache Indians; Scouting & Scouts; Irony; Southwest; Pacific States


A POET'S APPEAL FOR THE NATURAL: 4. THE HORSE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: For native rhythm, and poetry
Last Line: Across the trembling firmament.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Native Americans - History; Poetry & Poets; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


A RANGER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He never made parade of tooth or claw
Last Line: And he labored with the sinners of the trail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


A SONG OF THE WESTERN EDEN, by HOPE S. BARBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Delmarva, the western eden
Last Line: To the land between the bays.
Subject(s): Eden; Singing & Singers; West (u.s.); Songs; Southwest; Pacific States


A WELCOME TO 'BOZ', by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come as artist, come as guest
Last Line: Of the sympathetic west.
Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


ADIOS TO OSTENTATION, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The end of the line
Last Line: Almost to cracking his glaze
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


AESTHETICS AND NECESSITY: 1. SACRAMENT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sky's gentle dusking %each evening; the familiar
Last Line: Give me your hand, I say, %and already you have
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


AESTHETICS AND NECESSITY: 2. SURREALISM, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In darkness, the plains extend %unseen, forever
Last Line: Cities burning, the horizon consumed %in spectacular, terminal combustion
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


AESTHETICS AND NECESSITY: 3. GLEN CANYON, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fire, a freight train %of sound, would have leaped
Last Line: These clear perceptions %giving us ourselves?
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


AESTHETICS AND NECESSITY: 4. WATERSHED, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late afternoon light %dresses the grasses
Last Line: Is enough, touches me %here, yes, here
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


AIR'D OUT, by JESSE SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was ridin' this little sorrel horse
Last Line: Literally aired my butt out
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


ALCHEMISTS, by J. B. ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Renie was different, %a spawn of the plains
Last Line: Forgin' gold from plain pewter and brass
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


AMERICAN DIPPER, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Office politics %and the pettiness of each day
Last Line: Who dives into the cold %factual current, eyes open
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


AN OREGON DAWN, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the tide of the morning, the light
Last Line: Marched into the day and marched on.
Subject(s): Oregon; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


AND THEN HE THOUGHT, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: When all creatures could talk
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


ANOTHER WRECK, by BARBARA HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stir the spuds and check the coffeepot
Last Line: So we'll go to emergency to get him patched up again
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


ANSWERED PRAYER, by BILL JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jake, the rancher, went one day to fix a distant fence
Last Line: He didn't recognize your voice and cranked some guy's truck in %north dakota
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


ARCHITYPAL LIGHT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Almost silent, the canoe %slips %into bayou
Last Line: My hair, my face, %as I face forward
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


ARIZONA NATURE MYTH, by JAMES MICHIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up in the heavenly saloon
Last Line: A wonder horse, quick as light, %moon's left town. Moon's clean gone
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


AS IT HAPPENS THIS MORNING, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: This mountain lake gives everything back
Last Line: Of stones, dry twigs in hand %for another small, essential fire
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


ASSORTED COMPLIMENTS, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A treacherous fiendish look (bartlett
Last Line: Than of any other animal
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Native Americans; Southwest; Pacific States


ASSORTED COMPLIMENTS, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A treacherous fiendish look (bartlett
Last Line: Than that of any other animal (gregg
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


AT A COWBOY DANCE, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Git yer little sage hens ready
Last Line: Keno! Promenade to seats.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


AT SCOTT'S BLUFF, NEBRASKA, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wind %is the language of this morning
Last Line: This is memory, this %could be grief
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


AT THE COWBOY PANEL, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: About an hour before lunch
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Cowboys; Southwest; Pacific States


AT THE COWBOY PANEL, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About an hour before lunch
Last Line: Of the horror and agony we had counted on
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


AT THE STOCKMAN BAR, WHERE THE MEN FALL IN LOVE, & THE WOMEN JUST FALL, by JUDY BLUNT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black velvet shots and water back
Last Line: I'll never find my way again
Subject(s): Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Women; Women - Writers


AUTUMN ON THE UMPQUA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun is peeking o'er the edge
Last Line: When autumn comes in oregon!
Subject(s): Islands; Oregon; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


AVIARY, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: A quick flash of color
Last Line: Adrift with leaves. For the moment, %she has stopped eating
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


BALLAD OF BUZZ AND ART, by KAY KELLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ol' bryan out in sante fe
Last Line: They will shake him loose again
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


BAR V RANCH, PRESCOTT, ARIZONA, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you first get to the a bar v ranch in skull valley, arizona, something
Last Line: Evening, along with the setting arizona sun
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


BAR-Z ON A SUNDAY NIGHT, by PERCIVAL COMBES    Poem Text                    
First Line: We ain't no saints on the bar-z ranch
Last Line: What ain't no saints, as I said.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


BATH, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now it don't happen often %maybe once't a year
Last Line: An' head straight fer the nearest 'pie'
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


BECAUSE AT LAST YOU'LL HAVE TO TURN AROUND, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: When someone else's sadness sends you
Last Line: The make-shift firing range your heart thumps %old emotions,pity and fear
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


BENNY REYNOLDS' BAREBACK RIGGIN', by PAUL ZARZYSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bacon slab a-boiled black in oil every day
Last Line: It's built at adam's saddlery from snakehide tanned by eve
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


BERT, by BILL JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was my neighbor thirty years
Last Line: The day that I run out
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


BICYCLING IN THE GREAT SALT MARSH, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the packed sand road my tires
Last Line: Touch my skin. Nothing has moved
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


BLACKJACK, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: When my great-great- %grandfather ace gutowsky
Last Line: Their leaves as long as they can
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


BLUE OF THE MUSSEL SHELL, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sight lingers alone %the near angle of weathered
Last Line: Colors this prospect, giving, just now, %the last light back
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


BOG AT QUODDY HEAD, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wind, and spray, and circling
Last Line: Of water, the whispered past %perfect
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


BOUNTY TIME, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: When victorio was killed accidentally
Last Line: Who flew back to tejas to clean up the landscape
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Accidents; Death; Southwest; Pacific States


BOUNTY TIME, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When victorio was killed accidentally
Last Line: Who flew back to tejas to clean up the landscape
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


BRIGHTS: 1., by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The only time I ever saw a fox
Last Line: In increments, the little bodies %acccumulating weight
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


BRIGHTS: 2., by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of course, we betray each other
Last Line: Rise and fall with your breath %and look away
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


BRIGHTS: 3., by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even the low crest
Last Line: I realize their strange, mortal attraction %for the smaller animals
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


BRONCHO VERSUS BICYCLE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The first that we saw of the high-tone tramp
Subject(s): Animals;bicycles;competition;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Cycling;southwest;pacific States


BUNKHOUSE LAWYER, by J. B. ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just a mite too bronky, yet,'
Last Line: You hung it on too big a tree
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


BURY ME NOT ON THE LONE PRAIRIE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O bury me not on the lone prairie
Last Line: With a prayer to him who my soul will save
Subject(s): Cowboys;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


BUZZARD AND NOAH, by AUDREY HANKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We never meant to buy the colt
Last Line: A sleek cowhorse in his prime, %and a stove-up little bay
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


BY THE CROSS OF MONTEREY, by RICHARD EDWARD WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good junipero, the padre
Last Line: With the waters of thy bay!
Variant Title(s): Discovery Of San Francisco Bay;waiting For The Galleon
Subject(s): San Francisco Bay, California; Serra, Junipero (1713-1784); West (u.s.) - Exploration


CACTUS, by APRIL HALPRIN WAYLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't dare come near,'
Last Line: Poised to pierce... %beware!
Subject(s): Cactus; West (u.s.)


CALIFORNIA'S HYMN, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Before us lie the seas which bring the east unto the west
Last Line: As the future goes marching on.
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; California; Patriotism; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Journeys; Trips


CALLING THE COYOTES IN, by KIM BARNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dark green ravines run like lava
Last Line: Feeling all around them the closing eyes
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


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


CATASTROPHISM, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I follow the line %of your arm, pointing
Last Line: The swift, unlooked-for %passion when lives pool, lovely, %although mutable
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


CATTLE, HORSES, SKY, AND GRASS, by SUE WALLIS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And all these things that sway and pass
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


CAVE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sightless, shadowless, %the toothless blindcat cruises
Last Line: Of her home, this truth: so much was she loved
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


CHANGE ON THE RANGE, by SUNNY HANCOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The way the times and customs change these days is sure a fright
Last Line: But back in those days folks I knew all used to call 'em panty hose.'
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


CHARLES GOODNIGHT'S DREAM, by JOEL NELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: He's been in the saddle since way before dawn
Last Line: At the cavvy strung out behind charles goodnight's dream
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


CHASING RABBITS, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Night falls %black/white %coats glistening
Last Line: Heavy eyes %of dogs dreaming
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


CHICKENS AND COWS, by DAN BRADSHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've studied all kinds of critters
Last Line: And serve 'em on next sunday's table
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


CHUCK SHEPPARD, PRESCOTT, ARIZONA, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chuck sheppard was born in globe, arizona. A rodeoer at the age of
Last Line: With a pan full of table scraps. 'they live a simple life, and that suits %chuck and blondie just fi
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


CIRCLE OF WOMEN, by KIM BARNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like an ambush, the forest
Last Line: Lucky then, finding them waiting, %golden-shouldered, hungry for more
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


CITIES: THE LAST LIGHTS OFF THE WEST, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In darkness a paperweight
Last Line: Are these? (curtains.)
Subject(s): Cities; West (u.s.); Urban Life; Southwest; Pacific States


CITY LIMITS, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here on the west edge, the town turned its back on the west
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; West (u.s.); Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States


CITY LIMITS, by TED KOOSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here on the west edge, the town turned its back on the west
Last Line: A switch with red eyes wipes its mouth with a sleeve
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; West (u.s.)


CLAIMING LIVES, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The woman who jumped off monroe st. Bridge
Last Line: To those who die as they were born: %in broken waters
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


COASTAL MOUNTAIN TRAIN, by ROBERT FRANKLIN GISH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bishop's peak. %to the west. Stalwart. Stationary
Last Line: One to the way to %the temporary tinsel town of hollywood
Subject(s): Railroads; West (u.s.)


CONFRONTATION, by LARRY MCWHORTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bride and groom of just three days
Last Line: Take a scrub brush to my coffeepot
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


CORDUROY ROAD, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crossing the high %wet slope, ascending
Last Line: Textured surface that we follow down
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


COUNTRY GRAFT, by PEGGY GODFREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A babe who needs a mama
Last Line: This rancher won't have to bottle-feed %unless she gets another
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


COW GAS, by DAN BRADSHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cowboy and his pard
Last Line: As he finds his own relief
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


COW'S HEAD, by ED BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've read all kinds of cookbooks
Last Line: Or one hundred hungry women
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


COWBOY COMMON SENSE, by MIKE DAWSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In them sierry petes out preskit way
Last Line: Yep...It's been a long time since I seen a white horse!'
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


COWBOY REEL, by PAUL ZARZYSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ain't a hand been hatched since 1950,'
Last Line: Til you've fished while pitchin', there ain't no way to tell
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


COWBOY VERSUS BRONCHO, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Haven't got no special likin' fur the toney sorts o'
Last Line: An' mistook the proper time to have it out.
Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


COWDOGS, GENERALLY SPEAKING, by SUNNY HANCOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: You know, I always did work for big outfits
Last Line: But they're good s.O.B.S when they're dead
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


COWGIRL, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boots were on the couch and had
Last Line: I'll go back home where women are pliant as marshmallows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Desire; Relationships; West (u.s.); Women; Southwest; Pacific States


CREATION, by EDWARD DORN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a time
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


CREATION, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a time
Last Line: I am thinking earth
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


CRY, by SANDRA ALCOSSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White legs and pink footpads, the black cat
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women; Southwest; Pacific States


CRY, by SANDRA ALCOSSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White legs and pink footpads, the black cat
Last Line: In his teeth and offers half to me
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


DANCIN', by TOM SHARPE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now my daddy was a dancer
Last Line: Who would never try to cut it on his dance
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


DEATH IN THE DESERT; IN MEMORY OF HOMER VANCE, by CHARLES TOMLINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are no crosses
Last Line: Receded as speechless and as wide as death
Subject(s): Death; West (u.s.)


DENVER JIM, by SHERMAN D. RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Say, fellers, that ornery thief must be nigh us
Last Line: It reversed the decision,— the court was adjourned.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Mothers & Sons; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


DEPARTURE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun is just completing his long day
Last Line: Without an earthly fear, nor dread, nor doubt.
Subject(s): Travel; West (u.s.); Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States


DEPLANING, & GETTING LEARNT, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shaving lotion fresh
Last Line: Airport in the universe
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Air Travel; Southwest; Pacific States


DEPLANING, & GETTING LEARNT, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shaving lotion fresh
Last Line: With a ludicrously sour curl %on his mouth
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


DEPTH IMAGE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the human %eye desires light %and movement, seeks out
Last Line: Latent, this lake's %floating trellis
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


DESERT, by LILLIAN M. FISHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The desert is holding a giant breath
Last Line: Under a blanket of sky
Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; West (u.s.)


DICKENS IN CAMP, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting
Last Line: This spray of western pine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Books; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Pine Trees; West (u.s.); Writing & Writers; Reading; Southwest; Pacific States


DIEBACK, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wonder whether,
Last Line: And comes back, that dies and goes %on. Or this time doesn't.
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


DIFFERENCE IN EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE DEPENDING ON GEOGRAPHICAL..., by DENNICE SCANLON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had a mind to begin by scraping april
Last Line: Weather wilts ridges between with love
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


DOG, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't think I remember the exact direction
Last Line: All four tires on my pickup were wet %(in memory of chief, the best dog ever)
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


DOG'S LIFE, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've watched these pups come along %seemingly separate balls of energy
Last Line: I can picture death as absentmindedness
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


DOOR: 1. WEALTHY HOTCHKISS BROWN, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Well, you know doors are always opening
Last Line: But also not enough to know what we should do
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


DOOR: 2. VINA CONOWAY PRIESTLEY, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes I felt that land was haunted, when
Last Line: We can't see, and can't yet understand
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


DREAM OF SPRING, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Easter sunday, the children
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


DRESS FOR WAR, by EDWARD DORN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tallow shampoo so the hair is sleek & obedient
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Native Americans – Wars; Southwest; Pacific States


DRESS FOR WAR, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tallow shampoo so the hair is sleek & obedient
Last Line: Every trace of civilization %from their province
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


DRIVING WEST IN 1970, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear children, do you remember the morning
Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Memory; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


EL DORADO: A SONG, by CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, the fields aflame with poppies
Last Line: All the west with bloom anew.
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


EL MONTE LODGE, TAOS, NEW MEXICO, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nestled in the valley below 'taos mountain' sits a quaint little lodge
Last Line: And one canine visitor from town. It seems lady has started a tradition at the el monte
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


EL PONIENTE, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the train the miles are folded by
Last Line: It is young air we breathe. This is the west!
Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


EL ZAPATERO, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I spoke to a shoemaker
Last Line: But not the duck-bill toe
Subject(s): Shoes;west (u.s.); Boots;sneakers;shoemakers;southwest;pacific States


ELEGY, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through the screen door, swish and twitter
Last Line: Almost heart-shaped leaves, each %lopsided in a different shape, each %rooted in the shade, trying t
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


ENTERING SMOOT, WYOMING POP. 239, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We'd come here maybe twice a year
Last Line: At the old church-house lane %and we went over it twice
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


ESCORTING GRAMMY TO THE POTLUCK ROCKY MOUNTAN OYSTER FEED, by PAUL ZARZYSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lean ray krone bellers through a fat cumulus
Last Line: Happy dreams all night long in my sunday boots
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


EVENT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weeks of little rain have left us
Last Line: And, understand, this is all he can find %to give her-%he crosses the street %to leave her way clear
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


FATHER HUCKLEBERRY AND THE AEROPLANE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, 'mandy, I got home alive
Last Line: And a little bigger load.
Subject(s): Clergy; Travel; West (u.s.); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States


FATHER HUCKLEBERRY AT SEATTLE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, I'm takin' in seattle
Last Line: Cause they feel their growin' pains!
Subject(s): Clergy; Sea Voyages; Seattle, Washington; Spirituality; Travel; West (u.s.); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States


FAUVE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: High northern %summer, red cedar
Last Line: And a somber interior %whisper, color
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


FEARS, by SALLY HARPER BATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a big old ring around the moon
Last Line: I lie...'cuz what could I say
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


FIFTEEN HUNDRED TONS OF HAY @ 1 CENT PER POUND, by EDWARD DORN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gen. Crook proved to a skeptical world
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


FIFTEEN HUNDRED TONS OF HAY @ 1 CENT PER POUND, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gen. Crook proved to a skeptical world
Last Line: With small sickles & butcher knives
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


FIFTY DOLLARS, by MIKE DAWSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two young dudes from boston town
Last Line: With these words, softly spoken: 'I need fifty dollars.'
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


FIRE DOWN BELOW, by EDWARD DORN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Evening shadows lengthen
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Native Americans; Southwest; Pacific States


FIRE DOWN BELOW, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Evening shadows lengthen
Last Line: Doing something behond staying out %of the way of flame
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


FIRST LINES, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is bright to recollect
Last Line: Names never from animals
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Apache Indians; Babies; Southwest; Pacific States


FIRST LINES, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is bright to recollect
Last Line: Never from animals
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


FOR MARY, ON THE SNAKE, by RIPLEY SCHEMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two years ago, you on the east bluff
Last Line: The placid surface where we're going, %even now
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


FOR STEVE AND TED, by ROD MCQUEARY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slim comes back, reporting
Last Line: And one old gelding, tired and crippled, %gets a decent drink
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


FORCE OF ONE VOICE, by NEIDY MESSER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In small towns you become acquainted
Last Line: The long archaeology of mourning
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


FORM AND THEORY: 1. IMMANENCE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The light dust %breath %the light, crusting %on the body
Last Line: The light strikes %the cliff wall, scattered %sand
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


FORM AND THEORY: 2. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because of the lovely curve %of the pelvis
Last Line: Because of the open %door in the wall
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


FORM AND THEORY: 3. FUMAROLE CONES, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: A remembered hiss %of ash caught
Last Line: Wind flutes through %the darkened canyon
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


FREE VERSE, by PEGGY GODFREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: After I perform my rhyme
Last Line: But with rhyme, you know I'm done
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


FREEWAYS AND CARS, by JESSE SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: An old woman sat on the porch, watched the sun sink behind the hill
Last Line: And there ain't no smog from cars
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


FROM TOWN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We're the children of the open and we hate / the haunts o' men
Last Line: Ee—yow! A-ridin' up the rocky trail from town!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Variant Title(s): Ridin' Up The Rocky Trail From Town
Subject(s): City & Town Life; Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States


GATES, by BARBARA HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: One of the stories I've heard all my life
Last Line: There's one main reason why a rancher takes a wife
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


GATHERING THE DOUBLE O'S BULL, by ROSS KNOX    Poem Source                    
First Line: We was sittin' 'round a table in a bar on whiskey row
Last Line: How they gathred that bull by slammin' the gate %upon their tippy toes
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


GEN. MILES IMAGINED, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The function of the heliograph
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


GERONIMO, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: We call his mother juana
Last Line: With a light behind them
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Geronimo (1829-1909); Southwest; Pacific States


GERONIMO, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We call his mother juana
Last Line: With a light behind them
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


GHAZALS: 51, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who could put anything together that would stay in one place
Last Line: Charm and want everyone to go back to their snot-nosed slums.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Aging; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


GOD CREATES MAN!, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's no problem with
Last Line: And he was a traveller %like mercury
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


GOIN' BACK T'MORRER; IN THE CITY, by HAMLIN GARLAND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I tell ye, sue, it ain't no use!
Last Line: An' the birds an' bees s' thick! - %o we must start back t'night!
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


GREATER LOVE, by J. B. ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night guard's voice resembles
Last Line: In the moonlight's magaic beams
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


GREENOUGH GIRLS, by SUE WALLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nineteen twenty-eight %billings, montana
Last Line: To live up to %those greenough girls
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


GRISLY TALE, OR THE BELOW ZERO HERO, by ED BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was in the winter of '89
Last Line: Old grizzly died of water on the brain
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


GUNSLINGER 1, SELS., by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met in mesilla
Last Line: Hang out with some curious refugees
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


GUNSLINGER. PART I, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met in mesilla
Last Line: Lets have that drink
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Gunslingers; Southwest; Pacific States


HALFWAY TO THE FOREIGN LEGION, by ALES DEBELJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Instead of you trimming hedges below an aragon chateau, a stream
Last Line: Of things exhausts them. You sent me one letter. Enough to change the future
Subject(s): Change; West (u.s.)


HANCOCK COMPLIMENTS, by SUE WALLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He could have said you're sweet as pie
Last Line: Big in the hind end, and mostgly ugly %in the head
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


HARM AND JIM, by VESS QUINLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Harm and jim had neighbored
Last Line: That we all ate tonight
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


HICKORY RIDGE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Amid the moist profusion of ferns
Last Line: Another time, my throat might have slit %for spring to come
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


HIGH-STEPPIN' KIND, by SUNNY HANCOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was born in the depression back when times was kinds bad
Last Line: But I never told 'em, 'yeah, I like that old high-steppin' kind.'
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


HIRED HAND, by WALLACE MCRAE    Poem Source                    
First Line: You know, some men just look like a cowboy
Last Line: Ev'ry word that he told me was true
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


HITCH HAIKU, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They didn't hire him
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


HITCH HAIKU, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They didn't hire him
Last Line: Steep travel a- %head
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


HOTEL HARTLEY DOWN BY THE BAYOU AS DICK PREPARES FOR NY, by EDWARD DORN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Secure, with the rumble of wig-town
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


HOTEL HARTLEY DOWN BY THE BAYOU AS DICK PREPARES FOR NY, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Secure, with the rumble of wig-town
Last Line: I've got a fair chance of getting there
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above drift classic, backlit clouds, connections
Last Line: These presences, truth %so often various, %whether one watches, or not
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


I CALL THE HILL, by SUSU JEFFREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: An earth breast
Last Line: The land is her own
Subject(s): Landscape; Mountains; West (u.s.)


I DEPENDED ON MY PARDNER, by JIM SHELTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've had some damn bad predicaments
Last Line: In a pinch, you're always there
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


I TRIED, by PEGGY GODFREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seven barely-yearlin' bulls
Last Line: Finally one said, 'damn good horse.'
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


I WANT MY TIME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm night guard all alone tonight
Last Line: "say, gimme some tobacco, bill"
Subject(s): Cowboys;homesickness;night;ranch Life;solitude;west (u.s.); Bedtime;loneliness;southwest;pacific States


I'LL BE GO TO HELL, by DAN BRADSHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: The man was old an' tired
Last Line: Til I'll be go to hell
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


I'M TEACHING SCHOOL, NOT DEAD, by ED BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some well-intentioned people ask
Last Line: But I'm real careful about using the word never
Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.)


IMAGINING THE JOURNEY WEST, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhere outside topeka, in sod walls
Last Line: My last connection to the voice that named me
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


IMPERATIVE, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Undisturbed, and stubbornly repeating
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Iowa; Farm Life; Southwest; Pacific States; Agriculture; Farmers


IN THE DREAM I AM: 1. MUSEUM PIECE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fremont figurines lie in %orderly rows, limbs and torsos
Last Line: Eyes locked with god's, %measuring deserts in his clemency
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


IN THE DREAM I AM: 2. AFTER THE ICE STORM, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: For days the landscape %glittered, terrible clarity
Last Line: And thuds, the bodies %casting off stasis
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


IN THE DREAM I AM: 3. IN THE DREAM I AM, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the edge %of a river, squatting amid summer's
Last Line: Someone is turning, slowly, to look
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


IN THE HELLGATE WIND, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: January ice drifts downriver
Last Line: As the river I cross over.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Change; West (u.s.); Winter; Women; Southwest; Pacific States


IN THE WHITE WEST, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the upper garden, he said
Last Line: Crossed out by birch trees
Subject(s): Fields; Gardens And Gardening; West (u.s.)


INTO THE PLACES: 2. CONTEXTS, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Washington irving's %rendition of captain bonneville's impression
Last Line: We had almost nothing to say
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


INTO THE PLACES: 3. CRATERS OF THE MOON, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: A'a, pahoehoe, syllabic %archipelagoes ringed
Last Line: Then shuts the door- %like stone
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


INTO THE SHANDY WESTERNESS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you understand the managing
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.); Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Southwest; Pacific States


INTO THE SHANDY WESTERNESS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you understand the managing
Last Line: Down under the peonies. As it gets darker they disappear
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.); Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)


INTO THESE PLACES: 1. EXPLORING AN UNKNOWN REGION IN THE UNITED .., by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: One morning in may, %w.L. Cole and I, both of boise
Last Line: By the wail of the coyote %and the chirp of the rock cony
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


INVESTIGATION AND LAMENT: 1. SCHACTER'S COGNITIVE LABELING.., by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: For example, a man and a woman
Last Line: To an inner life; water, stone, distance, %other, self
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


INVESTIGATION AND LAMENT: 2. QUANTAM MECHANICS, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: What we learned in school, it seems
Last Line: Like us all, trying to name what can't be seen %or understood
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


INVESTIGATION AND LAMENT: 3. MY MOTHER'S STORY, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Never been loved, never been loved
Last Line: She wanted to love me, %she wanted to
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


JACK DEMPSEY'S GRAVE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far out in the wilds of oregon
Last Line: "unmarked, leave dempsey's grave"
Subject(s): "boxing & Boxers;cowboys;dempsey, Jack (1895-1983);graves;oregon;ranch Life;west (u.s.);" Tombs;tombstones;southwest;pacific States


JASON LEE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cry from the gloom of the western wilds!
Last Line: The stalwart jason lee.
Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); West (u.s.); Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Native Americans - Removal; Southwest; Pacific States


JIM BACHAE'S NEW HIP, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: We meet him paused past fields
Last Line: Cloud and sudden changing light
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


JOHN CHARLES FREMONT, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pathfinder - and path-clincher!
Last Line: And benton found the man!
Subject(s): California; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); West (u.s.) - Exploration


JOHN WAYNE, GUNSLINGER, R.I.P., by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: John wayne, gunslinger, pranced out
Last Line: Of our hero-gunslinger, john wayne
Subject(s): Cowboys; Guns; Hero And Leander; Wayne, John (1907-1979); West (u.s.)


JUH & GERONIMO, by EDWARD DORN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends from boyhood
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


JUH & GERONIMO, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends from boyhood
Last Line: Of the norte americanos
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


JUST A-RIDIN'!, by ELWOOD ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, for me a horse and saddle
Last Line: And a snowdrift in your hair.
Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


JUST AN OLD YELLA COW, by VESS QUINLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was called to vist with my banker--
Last Line: Would you cut back that yella cow
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


JUST PAST THE TOE OF YOUR BOOT, by TOM SHARPE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


KATE FROM THE WEST, by EVELYN MAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: She was just a girl from way out west
Last Line: The boys for her were sure to wait.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Singing & Singers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


KAYENTA, by CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So we arrived around six, having seen
Last Line: And the extreme commotions of the clouds
Subject(s): Native Americans; West (u.s.)


KIT CARSON'S RIDE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Room! Room to turn round in, to breathe and be free
Last Line: "that's why."
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Carson, Kit (1809-1868); Scouting & Scouts; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


KOKOPELLI, by CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kokopelli, humpbacked dancer from a past
Last Line: In the wilderness, as if it would not end
Subject(s): Native Americans; West (u.s.)


LA MAQUINA A HOUSTON, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The train has come to rest and ceased its creaking
Last Line: Before they fell away in exhaustion
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Railways; Southwest; Pacific States


LA MAQUINA A HOUSTON, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The train has come to rest and ceased its creaking
Last Line: Before they fell away in exhaustion
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


LABRADOR DUCK: 1. BEACON, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of sight, just past %the trail's bend
Last Line: Each wave's lift and hurl and drop
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


LABRADOR DUCK: 2. DIORAMA, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the blue light of depicted winter, long island sound
Last Line: Against me; an arm before the face
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


LABRADOR DUCK: 3. MEMENTO, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I linger at the water's edge
Last Line: Into the historic, the fingers' %living curl and crest
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


LAKE FLORISSANT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like words in a language %I almost remember
Last Line: What could the herds remember, %or imagine?
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


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 HOME, by JUDY BLUNT    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a child I watched my mother's face
Last Line: For threads of blood set loose
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


LEFT HAND CANYON, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rev. Royal filkin preaches
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


LEGEND IN A SMALL TOWN, by NEIDY MESSER    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day she ran off, left
Last Line: Comes before or after, leaving's the only thing %people remember
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


LIFE ON THE LAKES: DOWN ON THE BEACH (1), by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The storm-light fades from the cloud-banked west
Last Line: The far lamp glows.
Subject(s): Seashore; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips


LIFELINE, by SHONTO BEGAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Into the distance we ride
Last Line: On this road we will still ride
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


LIVING PEARL, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At sixteen I came west, riding
Last Line: She will be one year old
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Youth


LONESOME, by TOM SHARPE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listen to the breeze go slipping through the trees
Last Line: But for now, I guess, I'll totter off to bed
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


LONG WALK WEST, by DAVID H. ROSENTHAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I started out
Last Line: Now for quite some time: %meadow, shadow, tree
Subject(s): Walking; West (u.s.)


LOVE LYRICS OF A COWBOY, by ROBERT V. CARR    Poem Text                    
First Line: It hain't no use fer me to say
Last Line: "dog-gone a clock!"" is what I say."
Subject(s): Cowboys; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


LOVER, FIGHTER, WILD HORSE RIDER, by BILL JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not too many years ago, when the west was wild and free
Last Line: The first coat's almost dry
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


LUCK, by MARY ANN WATERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now there is no house, mother
Last Line: Yourself, knowing luck always waits %for that forgiveness
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


LYLE AND HAWKEYE, by ROD MCQUEARY    Poem Source                    
First Line: After preg-testing %while the crew %puts the heifers back
Last Line: On a smooth and rockless %hillside %took lyle %all afternoon
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


MAGGIE CREEK RANCH, ELKO, NEVADA, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The maggie creek ranch is one of the largest cattle operations in the west
Last Line: Stop for him, but they'll sure as hell stop for a %couple of dogs
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


MAIN CHARACTER, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to see
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; West (u.s.); Movies; Cinema; Southwest; Pacific States


MAN'S BEST FRIEND, by ROSS KNOX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Folks talk about a dog bein' a man's best friend
Last Line: The best damn cowdog I ever saw %stayed home
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


MARTA OF MILRONE, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I shot him where the rio flows
Last Line: O marta of milrone!
Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Death; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Mexico; Ranch Life; Revenge; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Southwest; Pacific States


MATLI RANCH, PRESCOTT, ARIZONA, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's like passing into a different era when you approach the dirt road
Last Line: That stray bull to tend to
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


MATRIMONY, by ED BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rancher's son had lost his heart
Last Line: When she's tired...Or she's rested
Subject(s): Cowboys; Marriage; Ranch Life; West (u.s.)


MAXIMUM OSTENTATION, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hyattecture is all strut and stage
Last Line: Brie and reference, and ucla women
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


MCCORKLE AND THE WIRE, by RED STEAGALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mccorkle rode into the whiskey flat camp
Last Line: And his hair's turned as white as the snow
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


MENTAL HORIZONS: 1. MR. SMALLMAN-SELFISHNESS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: With the markets his spirits rise and fall
Last Line: Hatched in this lilliputian hive.
Subject(s): Christianity; Selfishness; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


MENTAL HORIZONS: 3. MR. WHOLECOAST-THE WESTERN SPIRIT, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: But a larger soul rides in the list
Last Line: And I cheer for the land of the setting sun.
Subject(s): Soul; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


MENTAL HORIZONS: 4. COLONEL SPREADEAGLE-PATRIOTISM, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: But I hear the tramp of a marching host
Last Line: "for the nation bought at the cannon's mouth!"
Subject(s): Patriotism; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


MENTAL HORIZONS: 6. BROTHER BIGHEART-CHRISTIANITY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The creed I hold is too divine
Last Line: That throbs its way to the throne of god.
Subject(s): Christianity; God; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


MINOR ADDICTION, by KENT STOCKTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I crawled from my sougans an' reached for the pack
Last Line: After smokin' his last cigarette
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


MIRACLE, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last spring I began riding two herds of %cows who were calving. An icy, muddy
Last Line: Living, and resonates with freedom
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


MIRAGE - THE PASSING WEST, by ELIZABETH GARBUTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tall poplars shiver in the summer heat
Last Line: And poplar trees are shivering in the heat.
Subject(s): Mirages; West (u.s.) - Exploration


MIXED FEELINGS, by AUDREY HANKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We were rimmin' around one summer mornin'
Last Line: But when he got on the truck...I cried
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


MOTHER LOVE, by SUE WALLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah, these--these my precious
Last Line: What women! What men! %you will be
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


MOTHER WEST, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a mother, legend runs
Last Line: Come home to mother west.
Subject(s): Homecoming; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


MOVING DAY AT THE WIDOW CAIN'S, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lugging old milk cans, glass
Last Line: Like a woman in a prairie of fire
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


MOVING, INVISIBLE SPECTRE OF PHRATRY ON TRATOR PEACHES, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who can tell what a traitor is
Last Line: The frenzy of survival rushing from our pores
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


MY HAMLEY, by KENT STOCKTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's some mighty nice saddles that's built nowadays
Last Line: Quite a bit better than me
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


MY KAY, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long time coming into your self-confidence
Last Line: Against my leg %I become grounded
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


MY WESTERN HOME, by EVA W. MULLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: My heart turns sick with longing
Last Line: With the cottonwood trees' friendly nod.
Subject(s): Home; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


NANA & VICTORIO, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along this spine of dragoon mountains
Last Line: As we unweave this corrupted cloth
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


NANAY, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great hardness in old age
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


NANAY, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great hardness in old age
Last Line: To wear al huge gold watchchain
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


NORTH, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In mid-november, 18 degrees, cold air %astounds, astringent in the lungs
Last Line: Inside with ice, %the material %attendance of our breaths
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


NORTH TO TAOS, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The aspen twig
Last Line: The boat is moored to sky.
Subject(s): Boats; Nature; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


NORTHWEST PASSAGE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: We walk across cottongrass flox
Last Line: The milky way showed one of the many %visible directions
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


NOT A MAN'S PROBLEM, by CAROLE JARVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was younger, and a little more agile
Last Line: On learnin' to hold it...All day
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


ODE TO ASTORIA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On columbia's broadened breast
Last Line: While you safely guard the gateway of the west.
Subject(s): Pioneers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


ODE TO THE CALF CRADLE, by LARRY MCWHORTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Modern day ranches are doohickeyed up
Last Line: With a case of incurable scours
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


OLD MAN, by SALLY HARPER BATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun was breakin' easy
Last Line: Then go check on little katie
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


OLD PAINT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "goodbye, old paint, I'm a-leavin' cheyenne"
Last Line: "goodbye, old paint, I'm a-leaving cheyenne"
Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


ON CHECKING THE COWS SUNDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1993, by ROD MCQUEARY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm not so angry now
Last Line: Prolapsed and drowning %left us something
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


ON THE DISCOVERIES OF CAPTAIN LEWIS [JANUARY 14, 1807], by JOEL BARLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the nile cloak his head in the clouds and defy
Last Line: Who taught him his path to the sea.
Subject(s): Clark, William (1770-1838); Explorers; Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809); West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


ON THE EMIGRATION TO AMERICA AND PEOPLING WESTERN COUNTRY, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To western woods and lonely plains
Last Line: Than all the eastern sages knew.
Subject(s): Middle West; Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.); Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; America; Southwest; Pacific States


ONE MAN'S HANDS, by MAGGIE MAE SHARP    Poem Source                    
First Line: My anger rose high at his last words
Last Line: For only...One man's hands
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


ONE MORE LICK, by RED STEAGALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When g. L. Said he wouldn't buck, I figured he would know
Last Line: Just one more lick, this cowboy's got 'er made
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


ONE MORE SHIPPING DAY, by WALLACE MCRAE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The crew has all been mustered, from around the neighborhood
Last Line: We're mounting up, for one more shipping day
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


OREGON HOLLY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: As holly tells of feudal days
Last Line: Has both their charms together.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Oregon; Patriotism; West (u.s.) - Exploration


ORIGINAL MONUMENTS OF PERCEPTION, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Through the wall's membrane
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


OUR LITTLE COWGIRL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "thar she goes a-lopin,' stranger"
Subject(s): Cowboys;girls;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


OUT OF THE SUNSET MOVEMENT, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Out of the sunrise invasion
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


OUT WEST, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear thee speak of a western land
Last Line: "saying -- ""t is there, my child."
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


OUT WHERE THE WEST BEGINS, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out where the handclasp's a little stronger
Last Line: That's where the west begins.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Patriotism; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


P BAR RANCH, KIRKLAND, ARIZONA, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: A beautiful high desert valley spreads along the winding boundaries of the
Last Line: Night sounds and smells of the peaceful pine forest
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


PACIFIC TIME, by CATHY SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is not my brother's dying
Last Line: Dark around it. How it shimmered %for a moment and was gone
Subject(s): Death; Time; West (u.s.)


PAPERS SAY, by VESS QUINLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The papers say our old cow deal's %in touble again
Last Line: We'll run cattle just for spite
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


PARDNERS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You bad-eyed, tough-mouthed son-of-a-gun
Last Line: You ugly ol' scoundrel, you!
Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


PARIETAL, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two elk cross the immediate %field of sight, disappearing
Last Line: Showing where the elk had bedded down %to save a tiny, furless child
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


PERIOD PORTRAIT OF SYMPATHY, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Captain emmet crawford
Last Line: And the scouts love his weirdness
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


PERSONA, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The women circle the men in conference
Last Line: Is the highest mutation of force
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


PERSONA, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The women circle the men in conference
Last Line: Is the highest mutation of force
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


PETROGLYPHS, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Greasewood, four-wing saltbush
Last Line: Something in the world has changed. %what will it mean?
Subject(s): Change; Nature; West (u.s.)


PICTURES OF THE SOUTHWEST: DESERTED, by ELIZABETH KING COWGILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nothing so forlorn
Last Line: Sockets of a bleaching skull.
Subject(s): Houses; Ruins; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


PICTURES OF THE SOUTHWEST: HEAT, by ELIZABETH KING COWGILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Naked heat devils
Last Line: Like demons paroled from hell.
Subject(s): Heat; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


PICTURES OF THE SOUTHWEST: OIL, by ELIZABETH KING COWGILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Black smoke hides the sun
Last Line: Such a hell as dante saw.
Subject(s): Petroleum; West (u.s.); Oil; Southwest; Pacific States


PIEBALD ROBIN, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Suddenly, white %tailfeathers, beige-and-white
Last Line: Whether one watches, or not
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


PIECE OF ADVICE: IT IS FAR BETTER TO COPTER IN, BUT, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In hughestown, it is good
Last Line: For exaggeration's sake
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


PIONEERS! O PIONEERS!, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come my tan-faced children
Last Line: Pioneers! O pioneers!
Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


PRAIRIE HILLS IN SNOW: 1. PSYCHE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In wind, the hills ripple %into disappearing
Last Line: Everything has gone under %the surface
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


PRAIRIE HILLS IN SNOW: 2. SCAR, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the dog broke through %and floundered in near-freezing
Last Line: Growing an imperfect %but serviceable skin
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


PRAIRIE HILLS IN SNOW: 3. BURIAL, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Along the river trail %a few more trees are down
Last Line: Loose snow skitters %in the raw air
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


PROGRESS (DEWEY'S BRANDIN'), by RAY FITZGERALD    Poem Source                    
First Line: My neighbor called me up one night
Last Line: And shipped the best cows he ever had
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


PROVOKING FIGURE OF THE HORSEWOMAN, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Victorio's seester was no pocahontas
Last Line: To something khaki looking vaguely like shit
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


RANCH DOG (AS A RANCH DOG MIGHT TELL IT), by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now I don't go to groomers %gettin' clipped and sprayed and fluffed
Last Line: I'll live and die a ranch dog %that's the only life for me
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


REAL WEALTH, by PEGGY GODFREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My neighbors don't live close to me
Last Line: But damn sure makes me wealthy
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


RED ROCK CEREMONIES, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The clear moon arcs
Last Line: I am making the words %speak in circles
Subject(s): Family Life; History; West (u.s.); Women


REMINISCIN', by RAY FITZGERALD    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we get to reminiscin'
Last Line: Too old to turn a cow
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


RESERVATIONS, by EDWARD DORN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: This material yields
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


RESERVATIONS, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This material yields
Last Line: Know what a crisis is
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


RETIREMENT OF ASHTOLA, by LARRY MCWHORTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When a day's work is done in the limits of town
Last Line: When ashtola was workin' the herd
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


RIDERS OF THE STARS, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twenty abreast down the golden street ten thousand
Last Line: And a viewless rider swept the sky on the trail of a shooting star?
Subject(s): Cowboys; Heaven; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Paradise; Southwest; Pacific States


RIDING SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let us ride together
Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horseback Riding;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


ROUNDUP AT THE BAR B BAR, by BILL JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every year about this time
Last Line: And I sold them cows last year
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


ROUTE: 1. PIONEER MOUNTAINS, MID-JULY, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I rest against dull stone %and lichen, count drifting cirrus wisps
Last Line: Each evening fire, each %day's book and map and boot
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


ROUTE: 2. DAYBOOK-SCATTERED NOTES, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In winter, a handiful of dried stinging nettles added to boiling
Last Line: Stonecrop %shooting star
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


ROUTE: 3. WHEN SERGEANT FLOYD TOOK SICK, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: ('cramp cholic'/ burst appendix')
Last Line: When the fires in the prairie have distroyed it
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


ROUTE: 4. CAMAS, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mid-november, 1805, clark notes the vote %on where to situate
Last Line: I could have swourn it was water
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


ROUTE: 5. GLACIAL MILL, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In philadelphia and elsewhere, lewis
Last Line: We lift our paddles, %point toward shore
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


ROUTE: 6. THIRD WEEK OF SEPTEMBER, WIND, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of the southwest, the wash %all dries by mid-day
Last Line: New walnut hulls begin %to blacken on the blacktop
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


RULES: 1. SCHOOL BUS, by RIPLEY SCHEMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wait in the frozen rut
Last Line: Where jim johnson sits
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


RULES: 2. SPEECH, by RIPLEY SCHEMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: To have speech perfect %rising in pitch
Last Line: Is a kind of speech %the whole school understands
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


RULES: 3. SCALES, by RIPLEY SCHEMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only 10 lbs. Of cracked corn
Last Line: Of the heaped scale. My thumb %pushes up my side
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


RULES: 4. FIRE ON THE NORTH FORK, by RIPLEY SCHEMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eighteen singed men slouched
Last Line: Glad my mouth knows the rules
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


RULES: 5. LEAVING, by RIPLEY SCHEMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: One spring I leave for town, %I leave for love
Last Line: The morning to mould in the field
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most people from idaho are crazed rednecks
Last Line: Lives to curse your blessed plaster bleeding heart.
Subject(s): Christianity; Discontent; Idaho; Insanity; Montana; Washington (state); West (u.s.); Women; Women's Rights; Dissatisfaction; Madness; Mental Illness; Southwest; Pacific States; Feminism


RUSTY, JOHN, AND BROWN, by AUDREY HANKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We needed some help at the ranch
Last Line: Or better yet, just send your dogs-- %rusty, john, and brown
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


S BAR S RANCH, KAMAS, UTAH, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: An interstate 80 stretches to the east of salt lake city, the golden foothills
Last Line: Under the huge oaks that surround the old %victorian house the simpsons call home
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


SA-CA-GA-WE-A; THE INDIAN GIRL WHO GUIDED LEWIS AND CLARK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sho-sho-ne sa-ca-ga-we-a - captive and wife was she
Last Line: "sho-sho-ne sa-ca-ga-we-a, who led the way to the west!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Clark, William (1770-1838); Explorers; History; Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809); Native Americans; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SAWYER'S WIFE, by SANDRA ALCOSSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We could go like your grandmother, over
Last Line: And how seductive, the dark broth
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


SCALE, by DIANE RAPTOSH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The strong pitch of roof over the shed
Last Line: Too, grew to be old starting from there
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


SEEING SANTA FE AT NEW YEAR, by CYNTHIA HOGUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Evening burnishes the sangre de cristos
Last Line: In language so fresh %we cannot imagine
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Tourists; West (u.s.)


SHANK OF THE EVENIN', by RED STEAGALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: That new batch of heifers we got in today
Last Line: No, thank you, I'll tough this one through
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


SHORTY, by JIM SHELTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, the man was sure my pardner
Last Line: Ask the lord to 'let him go.'
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


SLIPPING OF THE WHEEL, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They were sentenced to observe
Last Line: Looks toward from the past
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


SLOW AIR: 1. ALLEGHENY FRONT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Geosyncline %sunlight and sediment
Last Line: The bog exhales its stagnant bloom
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


SLOW AIR: 2. CONVERSATION, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: ...We start from the old phrase 'he was on hunting,' which
Last Line: I was, you was, they was- %-but it was years ago
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


SLOW AIR: 3. FIDDLE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Head ferns, from a forest %of ferns, knee-high, thigh
Last Line: With a woman's voice, continuing %when she falls silent
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


SMELL OF RAIN, by KIM BARNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've read the obituary of a woman
Last Line: Echoing long after decay has begun
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


SNAGTOOTH SAL, by LOWELL OTUS REESE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I was young and happy and my heart was light
Last Line: Walkin' down through laramie with snagtooth sal.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Death; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Southwest; Pacific States


SO THE INFANT IS BOUND, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Come directly from the landform
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


SOME MORE OSTENTATION, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Meanwhile
Last Line: A techniques panel with his iq
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


SOME PLACES OUT WEST, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: They celebrate the testicle
Last Line: And the heavy weight of their delight
Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Men; Tradition; West (u.s.)


SONG FOR THE SAGUARO, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Impressions tumble-weed -- first & always desrt
Last Line: You can shoot all you want -- but I won't surrender
Subject(s): Towns; West (u.s.)


SONG OF THE CATTLE TRAIL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dust hangs thick upon the trail
Subject(s): Cattle;cowboys;ranch Life;roads;west (u.s.); Paths;trails;southwest;pacific States


SONG OF THE WAITING LAND, by ELLEN COIT ELLIOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: East wind, blowing
Last Line: Dreaming the dream the star showed me.
Subject(s): Seeds; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


SONGS WERE HORSES I RODE, by RIPLEY SCHEMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: One more stride east, one last push
Last Line: They rise and bolt for the ridge
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


SOUTHERLY, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wind-driven, loose grass and dried bracken
Last Line: And open sky, a pause %in the sentence %turn in the line
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


SOUTHWESTERN JUNE, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lazy little hawse, it's noon
Last Line: For we're young yet, and it's june!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


SOUTHWESTERN SUITE, by JAY DUSARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ice two inches thick
Last Line: Load 'em on the trucks
Subject(s): Ranch Life; West (u.s.)


SPANISH JOHNNY, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old west, the old time
Last Line: To his mandolin
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


SPIDER, by KAY KELLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old spider was a big brown horse
Last Line: But worse to have to ride him
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


SPIRITS OF DOGS, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out here in the vast landscapes %the big sky
Last Line: The spirits of dogs dance in my heart
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


SPRING IN THE DESERT, by ARTHUR TRUMAN MERRILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like the rusty bronze of a copper kettle
Last Line: A vulture specks the blue.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Spring; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


SPRING IN THE WESTLAND, by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's good to be in the westland
Last Line: In the westland now.
Subject(s): Spring; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


ST. LAZARUS OF THE DOGS', by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I am come to heaven's door
Last Line: To keep me from alarm
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


STAGES ON A JOURNEY WESTWARD, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I began in ohio / I still dream of home
Last Line: Of the sea again
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


STAGES ON A JOURNEY WESTWARD, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I began in ohio %I still dream of home
Last Line: America plunged into the dark furrows %of the sea again
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


STEADY MARKET, by SUE WALLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not long ago I drifted in and stopped to drink some coffee
Last Line: To buy a pickup that was new...In nineteen sixty-five
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


STRUTHIOUS FARMS, LITTLETON, COLORADO, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When one thinks of 'ranches' one usually thinks of cows and cowboys
Last Line: Seat to the obvious enjoyment these 'gentle giants' exhibit while %guarding their 'flerd'
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


SUDIVIDED (FOR JUDY MATLI), by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was there just twice before
Last Line: That dog and ranch had died
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


SUNDAY MORNING IN THE MURDERED TERRITORIES, by EDWARD DORN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: This poor, old shoetrod
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


SUNDAY MORNING IN THE MURDERED TERRITORIES, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This poor, old shoetrod
Last Line: In tales of the motile
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


SURE THING, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love the poetry sure %the whack and ring
Last Line: Like mature steaming on the trail
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


SUSIE'S DREAM, by AUDREY HANKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When susie was just a little girl
Last Line: She'd already lost the battle
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


TAPHONOMY, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before us lies the body what's left
Last Line: Death this moment this
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


THANKS FOR THE RAIN, by CAROLE JARVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I turned my eyes toward cloudless skies so often, lord
Last Line: I had to tell you, lord, thanks for the rain
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


THAT HARLOT SKY, by SALLY HARPER BATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: At best, you'll be %his wife...But he
Last Line: His mistress,, free %and cowboy's life...The wife
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


THE ALBANY CHAUTAUQUA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come among the birds and flowers
Last Line: At chautauqua.
Subject(s): Albany, New York; Nature; West (u.s.) - Exploration


THE BANDIT'S GRAVE, by CHARLES PITT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mid lava rock and glaring sand
Last Line: O'er the border bandit's tomb.
Subject(s): Bandits; Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Graves; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Tombs; Tombstones; Southwest; Pacific States


THE BRONC THAT WOULDN'T BUST, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've busted bronchos off and on
Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


THE BULL FIGHT, by L. WORTHINGTON GREEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The couriers from chihuahua go
Last Line: And juan takes his pepita back from the town.
Subject(s): Bullfights & Bullfighters; Bulls; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE BUNK-HOUSE ORCHESTRA, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wrangle up your mouth-harps, drag your banjo out
Last Line: "when we have an hour of firelight set to ""turkey in the straw."
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE CALL OF THE PLAINS, by ETHEL MACDIARMID    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ho! Wind of the far, far prairies!
Last Line: And I answer in ecstasy!
Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Plains; Southwest; Pacific States


THE CALL OF THE WEST, by ZELDA F. MELTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hear you the call of your own free west
Last Line: She shall claim her own again.
Subject(s): South Dakota; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE CATTLE ROUND-UP, by H. D. C. MCLACLACHLAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once more are we met for a season of pleasure
Last Line: When we danced the day in at the cattlemen's ball.
Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE CHASE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here's a moccasin track in the drifts
Last Line: "why, the darling! She's waiting to see"
Subject(s): Cowboys;love;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


THE CIRCUIT RIDER, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God tramps on through the scourging rains
Last Line: Once more, god built a world—our west.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): Clergy; Methodism; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Southwest; Pacific States


THE CLOWN'S BABY, by MARGARET THOMPSON JANVIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was on the western frontier
Last Line: "boys, that was a show that paid!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Vandergrift, Margaret
Subject(s): Babies; Clowns; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Infants; Southwest; Pacific States


THE COWBOY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He wears a big hat and big spurs and all that
Last Line: "like your dudes, who are so melancholy"
Subject(s): Cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


THE COWBOY AND THE MAID, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Funny how it come about!
Subject(s): Courtship;cowboys;marriage;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Weddings;husbands;wives;southwest;pacific States


THE COWBOY TO HIS FRIEND IN NEED, by BURKE JENKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You're very well polished, I'm free to confess
Last Line: You forty-five caliber colt!
Subject(s): Cowboys; Guns; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE COWBOY'S DANCE SONG, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now you can't expect a cowboy to agitate
Last Line: When I put the cowboy trimmings on that high-toned dance.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE COWBOY'S DREAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night as I lay on the prairie
Last Line: Have your name in the great tally book
Subject(s): Cowboys;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


THE COWBOY'S VALENTINE, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, moll, now don't you 'llow to quite
Last Line: The [valentine symbol] m-I-n-e.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Holidays; Ranch Life; Valentine's Day; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE COWBOYS' BALL, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yip! Yip! Yip! Yip! Tunin' up the fiddle
Last Line: But this beats dancin' at the cowboys' ball.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE COWBOYS' CHRISTMAS BALL, by WILLIAM LAWRENCE CHITTENDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Way out in western texas where the clear fork waters flow
Last Line: "that lively-gaited sworray — ""the cowboys' christmas ball."
Alternate Author Name(s): Chittenden, Larry
Subject(s): Christmas; Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Nativity, The; Southwest; Pacific States


THE DANCE AT SILVER VALLEY, by WILLIAM MAXWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Don't you hear the big spurs jingle?
Last Line: And danced his dance tonight.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Jealousy; Ranch Life; Violence; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE DEATH OF CRAZY HORSE, by JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now 'twas done
Last Line: These many grasses and these many snows.
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Native Americans; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


THE DEPUTY, by KENNETH CARLYLE KAUFMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Leave him here at the canyon's head
Last Line: With the grass waving round him.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Police; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE DESERT, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the lean coyote told me, baring his slavish soul
Last Line: Just a rain-washed track and an empty gun — and the old home trail ahead.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Coyotes; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Southwest; Pacific States


THE DISAPPOINTED TENDERFOOT, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He reached the west in a palace car where the writers
Last Line: "done."
Subject(s): Cowboys; Disappointment; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE DRUNKEN DESPERADO, by BAIRD BOYD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm wild and wooly and full of fleas
Last Line: When it's my night to hollow — whoo-pee!
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Southwest; Pacific States


THE EAGLE RIDE; OR, SEE FIRST THY NATIVE LAND, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The bell tolled 'ten'; then sang 'eleven' in glee
Last Line: "see first of all thy native land."
Subject(s): Mount Hood, Oregon; Native Americans - Reservations; Tourists; Travel; West (u.s.); Yellowstone National Park; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States


THE END OF THE TRAIL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "soh, bossie, soh!"
Subject(s): Cowboys;ranch Life;roads;west (u.s.); Paths;trails;southwest;pacific States


THE GILA MONSTER ROUTE, by LOUIS FREELAND POST    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lingering sunset across the plain
Last Line: They were off, down the gila monster route.
Alternate Author Name(s): Post, L. F.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Railroads; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Railways; Trains; Southwest; Pacific States


THE GLORY TRAIL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Way high up the mogollons
Last Line: "I'll never turn him loose!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Variant Title(s): High Chin Bob
Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States


THE HABIT, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've beat my way wherever any winds have blown
Last Line: For, once you git the habit, why, you can't keep still.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Southwest; Pacific States


THE HABIT, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Millarkey purchased a gramaphone
Last Line: At a dollar down and a dollar-a-week.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Wandering & Wanderers; West (u.s.); Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Southwest; Pacific States


THE HORSE THIEF, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There he moved, cropping the grass at the purple canyon's lip
Last Line: String me up, dave! Go dig my grave! I rode him across the skies!
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Rustling & Rustlers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE INDIAN DEATH WAIL, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: All the village of rikawrus
Last Line: Beats the aching heart of man.
Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Native Americans - History; West (u.s.) - Exploration


THE INSULT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've swum the colorado where she runs close down
Subject(s): Cowboys;drinks & Drinking;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


THE LEGEND OF BOASTFUL BILL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At a roundup on the gily
Last Line: "huh! Are you the great grandchildren of the west!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Americans; Cowboys; Ranch Life; United States; West (u.s.); America; Southwest; Pacific States


THE MOVING, INVISIBLE SPECTRE OF PHRATRY ON TRATOR PEACHES, by EDWARD DORN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who can tell what a traitor is
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE NEW STYLE WESTERN, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The two horsemen
Last Line: Of living together
Subject(s): Farm Life; Rio Grande River; West (u.s.); Agriculture; Farmers; Southwest; Pacific States


THE OL' COW HAWSE, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When it comes to saddle hawses, there's a difference
Last Line: Hawse!
Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE OLD BARLOW ROAD, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tread softly, boys, 'tis sacred dust
Last Line: And each clod a coffin nail.
Subject(s): Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips


THE OLD COW MAN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I rode across a valley range
Last Line: No later than I was!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Aging; Cowboys; Fences; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE OLD MACKENZIE TRAIL, by JOHN AVERY LOMAX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See, stretching yonder o'er that low divide
Last Line: Went rangeing o'er the old mackenzie trail.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Roads; West (u.s.); Paths; Trails; Southwest; Pacific States


THE OLD SANTA FE TRAIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It wound through strange scarred hills, down canyons lone
Last Line: Lo! Brightsome fruits to feed a mighty folk.
Subject(s): Santa Fe Trail; West (u.s.) - Exploration


THE OLD WEST, by CATHERINE AGNES PETROFSKY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The trails that lead here now are many
Last Line: Tis the same old west that men find good.
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE OUTLAW, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When my rope takes hold on a two-year-old
Last Line: That he kaint quite break is himse'f.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Horses; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE PRAIRIE SCHOONER, by EDWARD EVERETT DALE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I see a prairie schooner
Last Line: With the tongue a-pointing west.
Subject(s): Conestoga Wagons; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Prairie Schooners; Southwest; Pacific States


THE PROVOKING FIGURE OF THE HORSEWOMAN, by EDWARD DORN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Victorio's seester was no pocahontas
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE ROAD TO RUIN', by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I went into the grog-shop, tom, and stood beside"
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders;cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


THE SHALLOWS OF THE FORD, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you ever wait for daylight when the stars along
Last Line: As the water cleared and sparkled in the shallows of the ford.
Subject(s): Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Friendship; Nature; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE SHEEP-HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day across the sagebrush flat
Last Line: Thank god! Here comes a man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Solitude; West (u.s.); Loneliness; Southwest; Pacific States


THE SLIPPING OF THE WHEEL, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: They were sentenced to observe
Last Line: Looks forward from the past
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Apache Indians; Southwest; Pacific States


THE SONG OF THE ANCIENT PEOPLE; THE PUEBLO INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the ancient people
Last Line: Born with the wind and rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Native Americans; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


THE SOUTHWEST, by IRIS ELIZABETH SPARKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There lies a fabulous splendor in this land
Last Line: The vast and ancient beauty of this land.
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE TEXAS COWBOY AND THE MEXICAN GREASER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think we can all remember when a greaser hadn't
Subject(s): Cowboys;honor;racism;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Racial Prejudice;bigotry;southwest;pacific States


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 TRIUMPH OF THE HOMINIDS, by EDWARD DORN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: After a while
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE VIGILANTES, by MARGARET ELIZA ASHMUN    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are the whirlwinds that winnow the west
Last Line: We are justice, and right, and the law!
Subject(s): Cowboys; Justice; Ranch Life; Vigilantes; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE VISIT OF THE FLEET, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: In a long majestic line against the sky
Last Line: Till the dove of peace shall reign on every shore.
Subject(s): Balboa, Vasco Nunez De (1475-1519); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


THE WEST, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The west! The wild, the distant west!
Last Line: On thee the work must rest!
Subject(s): Future; Poetry & Poets; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE WEST, by PEARL V. DODDRIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In space, unlimited and wide
Last Line: The heart with song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hadley, Pearl V.
Subject(s): Mountains; Serenity; West (u.s.); Hills; Downs (great Britain); Southwest; Pacific States


THE WEST, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea grew silent like a seething bowl
Last Line: Vast sea of being that all life doth drink!
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE WEST COUNTRY, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you been in our wild west country? Then
Last Line: Men clothe him with their praise.
Subject(s): Child Labor; Homesteaders; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE WESTERNER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My fathers sleep on the sunrise plains
Last Line: And the world is mine to win.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE WESTWARD MARCH, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside some lost alaskan lake
Last Line: As the waters fill the sea!
Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Seamen; Sails; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips


THE WHOLE EUROPEAN DISTINCTION, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The longest continuous run
Last Line: The predictive mind
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


THE WOMAN FROM SPIRITWOOD, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleeping from mandan to jamestown
Last Line: Before there can be freedom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Beauty; Native Americans; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


THEY KEEP THEIR STORY, by RIPLEY SCHEMM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tall smooth lavender hills
Last Line: These steep folded hills
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


THREE A.M., IN WINTER, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I went to zuni
Last Line: I touch sparks, I fly.
Subject(s): Travel; West (u.s.); Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States


THREE-WHEELER, by JESSE SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've ridden lots of old spoiled horses
Last Line: Was shore one big mistake
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


THUNDER AND LIGHTNIN', by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: How come you keep that worthless hound?'
Last Line: Now. Thunder is a good cow dog, %but lightnin'-he's the king!
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


TIMES AIN'T WHAT THEY WAS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When pa an' ma was married in the days long gone and dead
Last Line: An' boys an' girls grow bigger - an' I'm glad to see the day
Subject(s): Family Life;modern Man;time;west (u.s.); Relatives;southwest;pacific States


TO GET TO FRESNO, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: To get to fresno, %you need to turn left
Last Line: Welcome back, fresno. %welcome back home.'
Subject(s): California; Geography; Maps; Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration


TO HEAR HIM TELL IT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I was just about to take a drink
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders;cowboys;ranch Life;talk;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


TO THE WEST WIND, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wind of the west, thou art the one I need!
Last Line: And sense of boundless power in every vein!
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Wind; Southwest; Pacific States


TOP HAND, by KENT STOCKTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The west has spawned some punchers
Last Line: Is the one don't raise no dust
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


TOURING THE SOUTHWEST, by KATHERINE MERCURIO GOTTHARDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The drive from santa fe
Last Line: Lifting dust from mouth to tongue, sitting as time permits
Subject(s): Cities; Roads; Tourists; Travel; West (u.s.)


TRACKS, by SANDRA ALCOSSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a man under the wheel of my truck
Last Line: Sweeping the hills with branches
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women; Southwest; Pacific States


TRACKS, by SANDRA ALCOSSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a man under the wheel of my truck
Last Line: It smells of tar and sage. There is blood on the tip, %still wet
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


TRIPTYCH: JUMP STUDIES: 1. CATARACT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: He hangs, toe- %holds and hands almost
Last Line: If any of us shouted, %none would hear
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


TRIPTYCH: JUMP STUDIES: 2. DIVIDE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rock stops, drops %near- vertical, there
Last Line: The singular, %slight drumming %of his stride
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


TRIPTYCH: JUMP STUDIES: 3. KILL SITE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Open grass chitter %dickcissel rock
Last Line: We don't talk stop %breathe imagine back
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


TRIUMPH OF THE HOMINIDS, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After a while
Last Line: Must have a lot in common
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


TRUE INJUSTICE, by MAGGIE MAE SHARP    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are so many things I've come to love
Last Line: If I have kissed my dog
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


UBI SUNT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometime near dawn the fog moved
Last Line: Now, now, now, they all call out
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Nature; November; Weather; West (u.s.)


VARIATIONS ON THE HORIZONTAL: 1. EQUINOX, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cormorants crossing the air
Last Line: The quick %confluence of edges
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


VARIATIONS ON THE HORIZONTAL: 2. EMERGENCE, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the first world, nothing %had spoken. Therefore, distances
Last Line: But lifting from the level ground, %the charred, dark statues gaze
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


VARIATIONS ON THE HORIZONTAL: 3. CLOVIS POINT WITH MASTODON, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Already the world %was changing, the plain
Last Line: To propulsive, sudden tumors, %lead within the breast
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


VARIATIONS ON THE HORIZONTAL: 4. SAVANNA, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like melody caught in the mind's %fond ear, the grasslands sang
Last Line: In wind, the flames raced %sideways %and I stood up
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


VET, by DAN BRADSHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've alwauys had a question
Last Line: Darn near anything fer pay
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


VICTORIA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O rock-ribbed city of the western sea
Last Line: "guard well ""britannia's far-flung battle line!"
Subject(s): Trail Of Tears (1838-39); West (u.s.); Native Americans - Removal; Southwest; Pacific States


VICTORIO, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a season of gold
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


VICTORIO, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a season of gold
Last Line: The most terrible %the most famous
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


VIGIL OF 559, by PEGGY GODFREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: One solitary black baldy
Last Line: I, too, mama cow, stand helpless %in the emptiness %of death
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


VIRGINIA RAIL, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The eye lifts to the shimmer %of sky and water
Last Line: Beside the salt marsh squinting, trying to see
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


WANDERLUST, by J. B. ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was checkin' the mares
Last Line: On the looks of the neighbor's blue mare
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


WAR HORSE, by SUE WALLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my dreams I ride war horses
Last Line: And I ride that horse %when I go to war
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


WARREN LIVE STOCK COMPANY, CHEYENNE, WYOMING, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The warren live stock company is one of the larger sheep and cattle
Last Line: On his stock. Thus, one of the many traditions of the %warren live stock company lives on
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


WESTERING, by DOUGLAS V. KANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The westering pennon of the sun waves
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


WESTERN BLOOD, by JULIET WILBOR TOMPKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My tower faces south and north
Last Line: And closed it to the west.
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


WESTERN GREBE IN MOUNTAIN LIGHT, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twenty hours and four thousand feet %after last night's alpine hail
Last Line: In the sun like water tossed %from the grebe's bright neck
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


WESTERN TOWN, by DAVID WADSWORTH CANNON JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dry gap - a dingy general store
Last Line: One sun, one moon, and called it heaven.
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


WESTERN WAGONS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They went with axe and rifle, when the trail was still to blaze
Last Line: But we're going west, tomorrow, with our fortune in our hands
Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.); America; Southwest; Pacific States


WESTERN WAGONS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They went with axe and rifle, when the trail was still to blaze
Last Line: But we're going west tomorrow, with our fortune in our hands
Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.)


WESTWARD HO!, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What strength! What strife! What rude unrest!
Last Line: In foremost battle, quite aside.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Pioneers; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


WHAT COMES OF WINTER, by JUDY BLUNT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mornings, breaking one last
Last Line: That comes of winter mornings, breaking
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


WHEN BOB GOT THROWED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: That time when bob got throwed
Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;revenge;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


WHEN BULLS FIGHT NEAR THE FENCE, by KAY KELLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When bulls fight near the fence, of course
Last Line: Those bulls fighting near the fence
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


WHEN I WAS TEN, AT NIGHT, by MARY ANN WATERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: While the family slept, unable to stay with them inside
Last Line: Thing inside the bottle, and for my unaccountable thirst
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


WHEN THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To correct an error of omission
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


WHEN YOU'RE THROWED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If a feller's been a-straddle
Subject(s): Animals;cowboys;horses;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


WHERE THE GRIZZLY DWELLS, by JAMES FOX (20TH CENTURY)    Poem Text                    
First Line: I admire the artificial art of the east
Last Line: The indian land,— land of the golden west.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Cowboys; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Rocky Mountain Range; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


WHISKEY BILL: A FRAGMENT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A-down the road and gun in hand
Subject(s): Cowboys;ranch Life;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


WHITE-COLLARED WORKER, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've seen those curs, out blazin' the herds %gettin' all roughed up
Last Line: But I've worn this white one for many a year %adminstratin's what I choose to do!
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


WHITMAN'S RIDE FOR OREGON, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An empire to be lost or won
Last Line: The hundred states of oregon.
Subject(s): West (u.s.) - Exploration; Whitman, Marcus (1802-1847)


WHO'S THAT CALLING SO SWEET?, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The herds are gathered in from plain and hill
Last Line: Twas loved ones' voices from far off across the seas
Subject(s): Cowboys;homesickness;ranch Life;sound;west (u.s.); Southwest;pacific States


WHOLE EUROPEAN DISTINCTION, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The longest continuous run
Last Line: The predictive mind
Subject(s): West (u.s.)


WHY THE CHASE, by SALLY HARPER BATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: That gauch-eyed cow %had left the herd
Last Line: Responds just one-on-one
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


WILD WEST, by MARK VINZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trouble is, it's getting harder %and harder to find a good horse
Last Line: Ready to prove who packs the biggest gun %out here along the windy interstates %where our shadows st
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; West (u.s.)


WIND SIDE OF MY HORSE, by BARBARA HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've been following this slow-moving bunch
Last Line: Bout my foot on the wind side of my horse
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


WIND SONG; OKLAHOMA ANNIVERSARY, APRIL 22, by ZOE AGNES STRATTON TILGHMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind of the prairie, sweeping adown from the hills
Last Line: "but these are they who have conquer'd and kept, the people of eighty-nine."
Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


WINDSONG RANCH, CAYUCOS, CALIFORNIA, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some two hundred and fifty miles north of los angeles, california, on the
Last Line: Serenity of this old ranch country. The dogs lie still as they listen to the silence and %sniff the
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)


WITHIN THE BRIGHT POTENTIAL, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In rockwell kent's alaska, %it is clear the world
Last Line: Dark marks within %the circumambient bright potential
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


WOOD JINGLER, by RAY FITZGERALD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wagon was camped on a grassy flat
Last Line: He'd drawed a cranky nurse
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


WOODCUTTING ON LOST MOUNTAIN, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our father is three months dead
Last Line: Is where you are
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women; Southwest; Pacific States


WOODCUTTING ON LOST MOUNTAIN, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our father is three months dead
Last Line: Here, walk for yourself. We're home'
Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women


WORK, by ELIZABETH CAROLINE DODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: With a finger's chipped polish, she follows
Last Line: Stand beside her while she looks
Subject(s): Nature; West (u.s.)


YOUNG COWBOY, by MIKE DAWSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cowboy young, a young cowboy
Last Line: In search of their holy grail
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


YOUR LITTLE GRAY HOME IN THE WEST, by M. C. HAECKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: You call it your little gray home in the west
Last Line: In your little gray home in the west.
Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Home; Love; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


ZACK TILMAN, by WALLACE MCRAE    Poem Source                    
First Line: They say his dad was bone-deep mean
Last Line: He finally found his enemy %and killed himself one night
Subject(s): Cowboys; West (u.s.)


ZEILER RANCH, WHEATLAND, WYOMING, by MARIANNE MURDOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The 'wanna-be's.' they're dogs, and they live on a ranch, a true ranch
Last Line: Simply share their ranch with these very happy animals
Subject(s): Herding Dogs - West (u.s.); Livestock Protection Dogs - West (u.s.)