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Subject: CHIMPANZEES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CARELESS APE, by RON PADGETT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The real reason I'm not you
Last Line: Drawn aside like music to show the notes glittering quietly below
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans


A PRE-ADAMITE ON EVOLUTION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: An aged king of gorillas sat
Last Line: Nor dreamed that her kind could be free.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Nature; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans


HIMALAYA APE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now listen, evolutionists
Last Line: Or of the missing link.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Pets; Science; Teaching & Teachers; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Scientists; Educators; Professors


HIMMY'S OUTING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Himmy went to market
Last Line: For his breakfast food.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Escapes; Forests; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Fugitives; Woods


MOTHERHOOD, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sat on a shelf
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Mothers; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans


ORANGUTAN REHAB, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A circle of unbarbered redheads round
Last Line: Limb toward a cultivated taste for freedom.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Freedom; Indonesia; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Liberty; Dutch East Indies


TEACHING THE APE TO WRITE POEMS, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They didn't have much trouble
Subject(s): Apes; Poetry & Poets; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans


THE APE AND THE FOX, ON THE FRUITS OF GREEDINESS AND CREDULITY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old esop so famous was certainly right
Last Line: That your majesty's grace did not understand trap.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Cruelty; Fables; Men; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Allegories


THE ESCAPED GORILLA, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When he walked out in the park that early evening
Subject(s): Apes; Escapes; Zoos; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Fugitives


THE HEADLINER AND THE BREADWINNER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moko, the educated ape is here
Last Line: "moko's, the blest, the educated ape."
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Monkeys; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans


THE MAN FORBID, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mankind has cast me out. When I became
Last Line: The cliffed escarpment ends in stormclad strength.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Apes; Books; Death; Education; Exiles; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Estrangement; Outcasts; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Reading; Dead, The; Human Race


THE TWO APES OF BRUEGHEL, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's my dream of a final exam
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans


THE YOUNG LION AND THE APE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis true I blame your lover's choice
Last Line: And pays with interest scorn for scorn.'
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Beauty; Charm; Fables; Lions; Women; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Allegories


WE MUST BE POLITE: 1, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If we meet a gorilla
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Etiquette; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Manners; Courtesy