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Subject: CATERPILLARS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CATERPILLAR ON THE DESK, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lifting up my coffee cup, I notice a caterpillar crawling
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Postage Stamps


A DIET OF WORMS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The caterpillars met one day
Last Line: For dinner!
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


A MEASURING WORM, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This yellow striped green
Subject(s): Caterpillars


BIOLOGY LESSON, by JR. JOHN D. ENGLE                       
First Line: Watch a caterpillar %eating his way
Last Line: Freedom, wings!
Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; Caterpillars; Insects


BUTTERFLY AND THE CATERPILLAR, by JOSEPH LAUREN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Butterflies; Caterpillars; Insects


CATERPILLAR, by HELEN BURLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The grass has come alive
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects


CATERPILLAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Intent upon its own career %what use has it for me
Variant Title(s): How Soft A Caterpillar Steps; Poem: 1448; Poem: 152
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects


CATERPILLAR, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: W/ round black eyes %big & furry it goes
Last Line: & it is looking at me %on its way down %down down %2 years old I am %& surely %surely it is so
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects


CATERPILLAR, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I find among the poems of schiller
Last Line: It's utterly speechless, songless, whistleless
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects


CATERPILLAR, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I creep upon the ground, and the children
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects


CATERPILLAR SONG, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer and leaves filled me
Subject(s): Caterpillars


CATERPILLAR'S APOLOGY FOR EATING A FAVORITE GLADIOLUS, by CHARLES WILLIAM DALMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Confuse me not with impious things
Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects


CATERPILLARS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of caterpillars fabre tells how day after day
Last Line: In a heaving ring returning the same regrets.
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


CINQUAIN: CATERPILLAR, by KENNETH CHING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hurry
Last Line: Of wings.
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


COCOON, by DAVID MCCORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little caterpillar creeps
Last Line: And that's the end of three good tries
Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects


DISCOVERY, by DOROTHY SIGMUND    Poem Text                    
First Line: A caterpillar squirmed
Last Line: And slowly slithered down.
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


DORA DILLER, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My stomach's full of butterflies!'
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Caterpillars


FUZZY WUZZY, CREEPY CRAWLY, by LILLIAN SCHULZ VANADA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: You were once a caterpillar, %wiggly, wiggly fellow
Subject(s): Butterflies; Caterpillars; Insects


LAW, by MOLLY MCQUADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Caterpillars lurch
Last Line: Of impossible tree, %holding ground
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects


ONLY MY OPINION, by MONICA SHANNON    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is a caterpillar ticklish?
Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


ONLY MY OPINION, by MONICA SHANNON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is a caterpillar ticklish?
Last Line: That he giggles, as he wiggles %across a hairy leaf
Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects


REQUIEM, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last year an army
Subject(s): Trees; Caterpillars


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 39, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brown and furry
Last Line: To live again a butterfly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): The Caterpillar
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


THE CATERPILLAR, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No, helpless thing, I cannot harm thee now
Last Line: Yet 'tis the weakness of a virtuous mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Caterpillars


THE CATERPILLAR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under this loop of honeysuckle
Last Line: And eat, eat, eat -- as one ought to eat.
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


THE CATERPILLAR, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, that I too could go to sleep
Last Line: The peach-blooms and the daffodils!
Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill
Subject(s): Butterflies; Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


THE SILKWORM AND THE CATERPILLAR; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once on a time -- if tales are true
Last Line: The caterpillar of my story!
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Criticism & Critics; Insects; Bugs


THE TICKLE RHYME, by IAN SERRAILLIER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who's that tickling my back?' said the wall
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


THREE PENGUIN CATERPILLARS, by CATHERINE B. TOOSEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Three caterpillars poised: together straight
Last Line: Erect, with white broad breasts and flippers stretched.
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


TICKLE RHYME, by IAN SERRAILLIER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who's that tickling my back?' said the wall
Last Line: Caterpillar. 'I'm learning %to crawl'
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects