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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BESTIARY: THE ELEPHANT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In ynde ye may elephants see
Last Line: Who had fallen to hell's depths dim
Subject(s): Elephants


ADDRESS TO MR. CROSS, OF EXETER 'CHANGE ON THE DEATH OF AN ELEPHANT, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, mr. Cross!
Last Line: Shoot me!
Subject(s): Animals; Elephants


BLACK EARTH, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Openly, yes, / with the naturalness
Last Line: Beautiful element of unreason under it?
Variant Title(s): Melancthon
Subject(s): Elephants


BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT, by WILLIAM WENTHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Six blind men came upon an elephant
Last Line: And said, there remains the slight matter of the bill
Subject(s): Animals; Elephants


BRING UP THE ELEPHANTS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just when the sky was getting light
Last Line: "and yell, ""bring up the elephunts!"
Subject(s): Elephants


CIRCUS ELEPHANT, by KATHRYN WORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Does the elephant remember
Last Line: Of a long-forgotten stream?
Subject(s): Elephants


CRADLE SONG OF THE ELEPHANTS, by ADRIANO DEL VALLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The little elephant was crying
Last Line: The moon will hear my little fellow
Subject(s): Elephants


DILIGENCE IS TO MAGIC AS PROGRESS IS TO FLIGHT, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With an elephant to ride upon-'with rings on her
Last Line: Which dubs them prosaic necessities—not curios.
Subject(s): Elephants


DRAWN BY STONES, BY EARTH, BY THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN IN FIRE, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can tell you about this because I have held in my hand
Last Line: Like inky sponges that walk away in the deep water.
Subject(s): Craftsmanship; Elephants


ELECTRIC ELEPHANT, by MICHAEL PENNY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a bull elephant full on
Last Line: The electric elephant will not notice me
Subject(s): Elephants


ELEPHANT, by HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here comes the elephant
Last Line: Of what is he thinking %between those wide ears?
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxford And Asquith, 1st Earl
Subject(s): Elephants


ELEPHANT, by NOEL HARRY BRETTELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slowly the great head turned
Subject(s): Elephants


ELEPHANT, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I said it was an elephant's turd, but fay, six, didn't believe me. She
Last Line: Happier than he already was
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Circus; Elephants; Freedom; Happiness


ELEPHANT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A prehistoric boulder
Last Line: Walks in the circus parade.
Subject(s): Animals; Circus; Elephants


ELEPHANT IS SLOW TO MATE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The elephant, the huge old beast
Last Line: Moves as the moon-tides, near, more near, %till they touch in flood
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Elephants


ELEPHANT [ODA AL ELEFANTE], SELS., by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gross innocent %saint elephant
Last Line: Softly you go %in your swagger
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Elephants


ELEPHANT'S TRUNK, by ALICE WILKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The elephant always carries his trunk
Last Line: It's part of his head - it's grown!
Subject(s): Elephants


ELEPHANT, OR THE FORCE OF HABIT, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tail behind, a trunk in front
Last Line: The force of habit is so strong
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Subject(s): Elephants


ELEPHANT: 1, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Elephant, who brings death
Last Line: Wherever he walks %the grass is forbidden to stand
Subject(s): Elephants


ELEPHANTS, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Uplifted and waved till immobilized
Subject(s): Elephants


ELEPHANTS, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Uplifted and waved till immobilized
Last Line: Asleep on an elephant, that is repose
Subject(s): Elephants


ELEPHANTS IN ASHEBORO, by DAPHNE ATHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Asheboro is the place our elephants live
Last Line: Come out, come out, whoever you are. %come out and meet the rising wind of death.'
Subject(s): Death; Elephants; Life


ELEPHANTS OF THAILAND, by SUH JUNG-JU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The elephants of thailand perform their bows extremely well
Last Line: Their relatively uneventful independence
Subject(s): Elephants; Etiquette


ELETELEPHONY, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once there was an elephant
Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E.
Subject(s): Elephants; Tongue Twisters


ELETELEPHONY, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once there was an elephant
Last Line: I fear I'd better drop the song %of elephop and telephong!
Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E.
Subject(s): Elephants; Tongue Twisters


EPISTLE TO MR. FOX, FROM HAMPTON COURT: NATURE QUERIES, by JOHN HERVEY (1696-1743)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Will the wise elephant desert the wood
Last Line: And eat when hungry, and when am'rous love?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hervey Of Ickworth, Baron
Subject(s): Animals; Elephants; Hunger; Nature; Taste (sense)


EVERYTHING OPAQUE ABOUT US, PERHAPS, by ANTHONY WILSON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The car-tyre screech of our cries
Subject(s): Elephants; Riddles


FENTON PHLANTZ, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fenton phlantz is fairly werid
Subject(s): Elephants


GHOST ELEPHANTS, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the elephant field
Subject(s): Elephants; Ghosts


GIFT OF TUSKS, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Big scare today, in coastal saxicali
Last Line: Around my neck: two-pronged pendant, %my false-ivory %keepsake
Subject(s): Elephants


HIGH-HEARTS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Proud elephant, by accident of bulk
Last Line: Too high and low at once, too hard and soft
Subject(s): Elephants; Giraffes; Hearts


HOLDING HANDS, by LENORE M. LINK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Elephants walking %along the trails
Last Line: They're holding hands %by holding tails
Subject(s): Elephants


IT'S HARD TO BE AN ELEPHANT, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That fit precisely right
Subject(s): Elephants


LET US PRAISE THE ELEPHANT, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The elephant brings it down - %man gai no chi
Subject(s): Elephants


PETE AT THE ZOO, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wonder if the elephant
Last Line: Against the dark of night
Subject(s): Elephants; Zoos


REMONSTRATORY ODE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, mr. Matthews! Sir!
Last Line: "or be it ""matthews, elephant, and co.!"
Variant Title(s): Ode To Mr. Mathews
Subject(s): Elephants; Opera


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE WHITE ELEPHANT, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great mahawasant, of siam the king
Last Line: Was by way of suez, and overland.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elephants; India; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


RULES FOR THE ELEPHANT PARADE, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Follow the fellow-phant
Last Line: Go right ahead and %start flapping your ears
Subject(s): Elephants


SEEING THE ELEPHANT, by JACKIE BARTLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine loving an elephant
Last Line: Beyond the margins of proof
Subject(s): Elephants; Houses; Summer


TENT CIRCUS, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cop clown is out back sitting on a hitch, nursing his sciatica while
Last Line: The final orphans
Subject(s): Animals; Circus; Clowns; Elephants; Entertainers


THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was six men of indostan
Last Line: Not one of them has seen!
Subject(s): Elephants; Religion; Theology


THE ELEPHANT, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When people call this beast to mind
Last Line: So large a trunk before
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Elephants


THE ELEPHANT, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: E'er bribes convince you whom to choose
Last Line: Ours sell themselves, and take the gold.
Subject(s): Elephants


THE ELEPHANT, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The elephant is very large
Last Line: And gentle as a little child
Subject(s): Elephants


THE ELEPHANT IS SLOW TO MATE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The elephant, the huge old beast
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Elephants


THE ELEPHANT TRIES TO RESCUE THE JACKASS, by MARSHAL E. GROVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: If elphie had been slow to think
Last Line: Down with autocracy.
Subject(s): Elephants


THE EXTRAORDINARY ELEPHANT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The extraordinary elephant climbed on the trapeze
Last Line: The extraordinary elephant hanging by his knees.
Subject(s): Elephants


THE QUARRY, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the rice swamps and the fields of tea
Last Line: They settled to the slot and disappeared.
Subject(s): Eden; Elephants; Love; Philippines; Religion; Theology


THRIFTY ELEPHANT, by JOHN HOLMES (1904-1962)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In my rduyard-kipling-simple years I read
Last Line: Red-eyed, foot-dragging, single minded blunt- %tusk, lugging his bones to the bones piled?
Subject(s): Elephants


TIGERS, ESTRANGEMENTS, ELEPHANTS AND LIES, by RISHI AGRAWAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: One of my uncles that I never met
Last Line: His son has been trampled by elephants
Subject(s): Elephants; Family Life


TOOMAI OF THE ELEPHANTS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and
Last Line: I will revisit my lost loves, and playmates masterless!
Variant Title(s): The Elephan
Subject(s): Elephants


TWO PERFORMING ELEPHANTS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He stands with his forefeet on the drum
Last Line: Is too much for them
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Elephants


WAR SUITE: 3, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The elephant to couple in peace
Last Line: Dark and clear within her continent.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Elephants; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime


WASHING THE ELEPHANT, by BARBARA RAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Circus; Confession; Religion; Family Life; Elephants; Theology; Relatives


WE MUST BE POLITE: 2, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If an elephant knocks on your door
Subject(s): Elephants; Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy


WE MUST BE POLITE: 2, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If an elephant knocks on your door
Last Line: Of potatoes - will that be enough for %your breakfast, sir
Subject(s): Elephants; Etiquette


WHERE IT'S AT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's big money in elephantine art
Last Line: Art is anarchy, darling. Hot shit!
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Elephants