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Subject: BATS
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First Line: Bats swallow my shadow
Last Line: My hand on the horizon %of its tail the scaly sieve
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Fights; Mist; Mountains; Sea


AN INCONVENIENCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To his cousin the bat
Last Line: "but nothing to sit on have I."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Rats


AS IN A SUCCESSION OF RUSSIAN DOLLS, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A furry lump like the back of a brown creeper
Last Line: Inside another, the husk of things to come
Subject(s): Animals; Bats


BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At evening, sitting on this terrace
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips


BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At evening, sitting on this terrace
Last Line: In china the bat is symbol of happiness. %not for me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Florence, Italy; Travel


BAT, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His awful skin
Subject(s): Bats; Theology


BAT OUT OF HELL, by MAX GOODLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The children scream and rush inside the house
Last Line: Her swollen breasts with wings veiled womanly.
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Fear


BAT-WINGS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flitter, flitter, through the twilight
Last Line: Pipistrello.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Gnats; Rome, Italy


BATS, by ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O bats! / gnats
Last Line: Syntheses!
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Wings


ECHOLOCATION, by DEBORAH A. MIRANDA    Poem Source                    
First Line: All day long you flutter through artificial night
Last Line: Reverberate against your blood and bone
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Nature


ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE BAT, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bats have not heard a word of their literary reputation
Last Line: Will cause its cave to be burned to ashes
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Blood; Caves; Vampires; Wings


FACADE: 2. THE BAT, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Castellated, tall, / from battlements fall
Last Line: Quacks, clacks, afraid.
Subject(s): Animals; Bats


GOLDEN WASP, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blindworm that legless lizard flows along the porch step
Last Line: The dark bat has left my face and is scissoring around in summer's bright space
Subject(s): Insects; Bats


HIGH PITCHES, by ROBERT GRUNST    Poem Source                    
First Line: A little brown bat was waiting for dark
Last Line: And every flying insect that it loved
Subject(s): Animals; Bats


MADNESS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wardrobe towers above the table lamp
Last Line: Who rearranges with impartial feet %the silence in the caverns of a skull
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Variant Title(s): Longitud
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Old Age; Rooms


MAN AND BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I went into my room, at mid-morning
Last Line: But I am greater that he - %I escaped him
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Animals; Bats


METAMORPHOSIS, by CECIL J. MULLINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: These bats remind me of a child I knew
Last Line: The storm stopped as thy picked tom from the ice. %and bats,I've learned since then, are also nice
Subject(s): Animals; Bats


MIND, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mind in its purest play is like some bat
Subject(s): Animals; Bats


MIND, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mind in its purest play is like some bat
Last Line: A graceful error may correct the cave
Subject(s): Animals; Bats


OLD GRANNY DUSK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old granny dusk, when the sun
Last Line: Er kisses the face you're a-bendin' down.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Dusk; Katydids


SEVEN MEXICAN CHILDREN, by TOM SCHMIDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw them at games every day
Subject(s): Animals; Bats


SLEEPING IN THE LIGHT, by MARK GIBBONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summer nights in the street under the arc light
Last Line: Milk-toast or drink whiskey anymore
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Light; Night


SONNET, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve
Last Line: Dimming her lonely visions of despair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Despair


SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE ALLIGATOR GRILL, by INGRID PROESCHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This afternoon we watched the black flock
Last Line: Hanging on by the tips of their toes
Subject(s): Animals; Bats


THE BAT, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the river of sorrow
Last Line: As daylight is darkness to thee.
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Night; Bedtime


THE BAT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: His eccentricities.
Subject(s): Animals; Bats


THE BAT, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
Last Line: Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis
Variant Title(s): The Mad Hatter's Song
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Taylor, Jane (1783-1824)


THE BAT, by JANE KENYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was reading about rationalism
Last Line: By suddenly coming near
Subject(s): Bats


THE BAT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou dread, uncanny thing
Last Line: Grate not thy teeth at me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Bedtime


THE BAT, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reading in bed, full of sentiment
Subject(s): Bats


THE INTRUDER, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother - preferring the strange to the tame
Last Line: She washed and washed the pity from her hands.
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Violence; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


TO A BAT, by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bat - %I want to praise you for your beauty
Last Line: And what you know about the longest night
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Wings


TO THE BAT, by ANN RADCLIFFE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From haunt of man, from day's obtrusive glare
Last Line: Twilight thy love -- thy guide her beaming star!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann
Subject(s): Animals; Bats


UNSTRUNG, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a jeweled tapestry
Last Line: A face so like its own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Birds; Bones; Death; Dead, The


ZOO BATS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the central park zoo, just past the ants
Last Line: To the night like a cup of water to the sea
Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Zoos