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Subject: FLIES
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First Line: When I was young I us'd to wait / on massa and hand him de plate
Last Line: "I nebber forget till de day I die, / ole massa an' dat blue tail fly"
Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs;flies;slavery; Negro Spirituals;serfs


1989, by NOVICA TADIC    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: May god in heaven bless you
Last Line: Oh yes. %yes
Subject(s): Flies


A FLY ABOUT A GLASS OF BURNT CLARET, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forbear this liquid fire, fly
Last Line: Thou wouldst be scorched and drowned again!
Subject(s): Flies


A FLY CAUGHT IN A COBWEB, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Small type of great ones, that do hum
Last Line: Bound with the entrails of thy foe.
Subject(s): Cobwebs; Flies


A FLY THAT FLEW INTO MY MISTRESS HER EYE, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When this fly liv'd she us'd to play
Last Line: Funeral, flame, tomb, obsequy.
Subject(s): Flies


ANONYMITY, by AUGUSTINE PORRAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sat next to my uncle who still had the gift
Last Line: He tells me, it is what we struggle for all our life
Subject(s): Flies; Uncles


BEFORE A SCREEN DOOR, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over a darkening spill, water lilies tip
Last Line: Trying to forget the touch of so many small deaths
Subject(s): Flies; Memory


BLUE-FLY, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Five summer days, five summer nights
Last Line: To glut the carriers of her epidemics - %nor did the peach complain
Subject(s): Epidemics; Flies


BUSY, CURIOUS, THIRSTY FLY, by VINCENT BOURNE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Flies


BUTTERFLY IN HONORED DUST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: So chastened as the fly
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1246; Poem: 130
Subject(s): Flies


BUZZ, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why was I born if I have to die
Last Line: And when it grew tired it rested
Subject(s): Flies


CALVUS TO A FLY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Little fly, alighting fitfully
Last Line: And die a martyr to thy love of light.
Subject(s): Flies


COCKY AND WEESHY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cocky robin hops out through the black bars
Last Line: Hops back in again
Subject(s): Birds; Flies; Ireland


COLD FLY, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Noted outside the window: a fly, the sun on his back
Last Line: Suddenly flies off, to hum by a different window
Subject(s): Flies


DADDY LONG-LEGS AND THE FLY, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once mr daddy long-legs, %dressed in brown and gray
Last Line: At battlecock and shuttledore
Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Wings


DEERFLIES DIE BY THE BILLIONS, THE COOL AIR, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the moon drifts closer to the cabin door
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Air; Flies; Nature; Night


DOZEN DEAD HOUSEFLIES, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of summer, smashed on the sill
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Flies; Nature; Summer


DYING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a fly buzz when I died
Last Line: I could not see to see.
Subject(s): Death; Flies; Labor & Laborers; Mourning; Pain; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery


EDUCATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bifurca, a species of fruit fly
Last Line: A fly may educate a man
Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; Flies; Knowledge; Reproductive System; Sex


FLIES ON SHIT, by FRANK STANFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the gentlemen from the south
Subject(s): Southern States; Flies; South (u.s.)


FLY, by MICHAEL BRUCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Prithee, little buzzing fly
Subject(s): Flies


FLY, by MIROSLAV HOLUB    Poem Source                    
First Line: She sat on the willow bark
Last Line: Fleeing %from the fires of estres
Subject(s): Decay; Flies


FLY, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I killed a fly
Last Line: I lay my body down beside the fly
Subject(s): Flies


FLY, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God [or, the lord] in his wisdom made the fly
Last Line: And then forgot to tell us why
Subject(s): Flies


FLY, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O hideous little bat, the size of snot
Last Line: And dies between three cannibals
Subject(s): Flies; Hate


FLY, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the fly said: nothing
Last Line: I say, he will not return
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Flies


FLY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What have we done this winter to deserve
Last Line: Swat not, not I at the moment, all eye
Subject(s): Flies


FLY, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What have we done this winter to deserve
Last Line: Swat not, not I at the moment, all eye
Subject(s): Flies


FLY ON THE WATER, by PAUL ZWEIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is eating me
Last Line: A fly skates on nothing, on tension: %something abstract as a prayer, or as love
Subject(s): Flies


FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 7. NAPLES, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw at a table of the bombed cafe
Last Line: Changed into flies and drew a cloud about him
Subject(s): Flies; Naples, Italy; Ruins


FULFILLED, by GEORGE ELLISTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am wed, but not to flesh
Last Line: Future and present and grinning past.
Subject(s): Flies; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


GLOSSINA MORSITANS, OR THE TSETSE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A glossina morsitans bit rich aunt betsy
Last Line: Tsk, tsk, tsetse
Subject(s): Flies


HARRIET (2), by ROBERT LOWELL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A repeating fly, blueback, thumbthick - so gross
Subject(s): Flies


HARRIET (2), by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A repeating fly, blueback, thumbthick - so gross
Last Line: Under the carpet, wrinkling to fulfillment
Subject(s): Flies


HUMAN FLIES, by KATHARINE ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Because there was a thing to advertise
Last Line: And all our earth is black with fallen flies.
Subject(s): Flies


I FORGET MYSELF, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blue flies who smell blood
Last Line: Too fast to slow down
Subject(s): Flies


I KILLED A FLY, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I lay my body down beside the fly
Subject(s): Flies; Death; Dead, The


IMMORTALITY, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In sleeping beauty's castle
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Sleeping Beauty; Time; Flies


IT'S THE DEVIL'S, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That flies sleep %at night
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Devil; Flies; Nature; Night


JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 38, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of our vsiitors, I do not know which I dislike most
Subject(s): Beetles; Flies


JULY, AND FAT BLACK FLIES, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Right out of the air
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Flies; July; Nature


LONG-LEGGED FLY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: That civilization may not sink
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Civilization; Flies


LONG-LEGGED FLY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That civilization may not sink
Last Line: Like a long-legged fly upon the stream %his mind moves upon silence
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Civilization; Flies


MAYFLIES, by COLETTE INEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The god of mayflies allots his creatures years
Last Line: Appear in swarms like a finely stippled cloud of %furious life
Subject(s): Flies


MAYFLIES, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In sombre forest, when the sun was low
Subject(s): Flies; Nature


MAYFLIES, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In sombre forest, when the sun was low
Last Line: How fair the fiats of the caller are
Subject(s): Flies; Nature


MIGRANT WINGS, by RALPH J. DONAHUE    Poem Text                    
First Line: They are moving down the star-lanes
Last Line: As they fly!
Subject(s): Flies


MOSCA, by PAUL BLACKBURN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fly sits & scrubs his front feet
Last Line: Why is buzzing considered idle?
Subject(s): Flies


NOVEMBER SUNSHINE AND THE HOUSE-FLIES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the dawn struck on memnon, as they say
Last Line: For foothold, in that roaring world without!
Subject(s): Flies


ON A FLY DRINKING FROM HIS CUP, by WILLIAM OLDYS    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Busy, curious, thirsty fly!
Last Line: Will appear as short as one!
Variant Title(s): The Fly. Occasioned By A Fly Drinking Out Of The Author's Cup;the Fly
Subject(s): Flies; Time


ON FINDING A SMALL FLY CRUSHED IN A BOOK, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some hand, that never meant to do thee hurt
Last Line: Yet leave no lustre on our page of death.
Subject(s): Death; Flies; Dead, The


SPIDER AND FLY, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once when morn was flowing in
Last Line: Sitting on her silver stairs.
Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Spiders; Bugs


SPRING IS HERE, by DON C. NIXON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Winter's left us for the year
Last Line: It's nice that spring is here.
Subject(s): Flies; Spring


STANZAS TO AN INTOXICATED FLY, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a singular fact that whenever I order
Last Line: For such an occasion than animal food.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flies; Wine


STOUT BODIED FLY, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Despised fly with your piercing mouthpiece
Last Line: I hear-buzzing
Subject(s): Flies; Insects


THE BLUE-FLY, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Five summer days, five summer nights
Subject(s): Epidemics; Flies


THE FLIES, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, sire of insects, mighty sol
Last Line: Both raised, but by their party's favour.
Subject(s): Devil; Flies; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


THE FLIES, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here are the baits, the hooks
Subject(s): Flies


THE FLY, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I killed a fly
Last Line: I lay my body down beside the fly
Subject(s): Flies; Death


THE FLY, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God [or, the lord] in his wisdom made the fly
Subject(s): Flies


THE FLY, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the wine-pot cried the fly
Last Line: Thus from the wine-pot, &c.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Flies


THE FLY, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: O hideous little bat, the size of snot
Subject(s): Flies; Hate


THE FLY'S LECTURE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once on a time, when, tempted to repine
Last Line: And served with light by two metallic eyes.
Subject(s): Flies


THE FLY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little fly, / thy summer's play
Last Line: Or if I die.
Subject(s): Bible; Flies; Mythology


THE POET AND THE FLY: 1, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Round the poet, ere he slumbered
Last Line: He had shut the creature in.
Subject(s): Flies


THE POET AND THE FLY: 2, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While unto dawn succeeded day
Last Line: If you can find its moral, do.
Subject(s): Flies


THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: MIDGES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is talking aesthetics, the dear clever creature!
Last Line: O you dear clever woman, explain it, I beg!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): England; Flies; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips


TO A FLY, TAKEN OUT OF A BOWL OF PUNCH, by JOHN WOLCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Poor intoxicated little knave
Last Line: Then, like an alligator, drags him in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flies; Wine


UP THE DARK VALLEY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the lean road looping the narrow river
Last Line: The birds of darkness sang back every call
Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Locusts; Spiders; Bugs


UPON A FLIE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A golden flie one shew'd to me
Last Line: Dead, and closed up in yvorie.
Subject(s): Flies


UPON A SPIDER CATCHING A FLY, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou sorrow, venom elf
Last Line: For joy.
Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Puritans In Literature; Spiders; Bugs


WHAT IS A WOMAN LIKE?, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A woman is like to - but stay
Subject(s): Flies;love;women