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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MERRY HEART: I SING WHILE I WASH THE DISHES, by THELMA LUCILE LULL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, I must dance a whirligig
Last Line: For I have seen the gooses green!
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Geese; Fairs; Pageants


A STALKER OF GEESE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "ariston had a sling, wherewith he got"
Last Line: And lorn: but o'er his grave the wild geese hum
Subject(s): Geese;hunting; Hunters


BAS-RELIEF, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Five geese deply mysteriously
Subject(s): Geese


EARLY MIGRATING GEESE, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mid-autumn by golden river
Last Line: Sesame seeds fill the waters, %and the shores are rich in moss
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Geese; Migration


ELEGY, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fled is the swiftness of all the white-footed ones
Last Line: And the geese honk north again and the heron's going.
Subject(s): Ducks; Geese; Migration; Mallards; Drakes


FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE GOOSE AND THE SWANS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hate the face, however fair
Last Line: You only her defects reveal.
Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Fables; Faces; Geese; Nature; Swans; Women; Allegories


FATHER GOOSE, by LYMAN FRANK BAUM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old mother goose became quite new
Last Line: The tales of father goose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Baum, L. Frank
Subject(s): Books; Geese; Parents; Reading; Parenthood


FLIGHT OF THE WILD GEESE, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Rambling along the marshes
Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery
Subject(s): Geese


GANDER, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be careful not to cross the gander
Last Line: Is she happy? What's the use %of trying to psychoanalyze a goose?
Subject(s): Geese


GEESE, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today as I hang out the wash I see them again, a code
Last Line: This astonishing decay, the everyday, takes place
Subject(s): Geese


GEESE AT IGHT, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear geese passing over high in the darkness
Subject(s): Geese; Night; Bedtime


GEESE AT IGHT, by JAMES TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear geese passing over high in the darkness
Last Line: Floats back to me, an immortal celebration and a %brief farewell
Subject(s): Geese; Night


GIGGLING GAGGLING GAGGLE OF GEESE, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The giggling gaggling gaggle of geese
Subject(s): Geese


GRASS AND WATER, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The geese have their heaven and I have mine,
Subject(s): Geese; Social Commentaries


GRAY GEESE FLYING, by FREDERIC PROKOSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Gray geese over the rock-ribbed hill, solemnly
Subject(s): Birds; Geese


GRISELDA GOOSE, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Near to a farm-house, and bordered round
Last Line: "though it sticks in my crop to speak it!"
Subject(s): Geese


HAIKU, by KOBAYASHI ISSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild goose, wild goose
Last Line: Did you make your first journey?
Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa
Subject(s): Geese


HEARING GEESE ON AN AUTUMN DAY, by DUAN SHUQING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Northern geese fly to the south - for what do they hurry>
Last Line: My heart is set on returning home - hopelessly I grieve
Subject(s): Geese; Homesickness; Migration


HEARING WILD GEESE, by YANG WENLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Carrying the moonlight, cutting through clouds, passing too at night
Last Line: Calling up their homeward hearts - what ever can they do?
Subject(s): Geese


HIGHWAY TRAVEL NOTE, by IRENE WARSAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: A hundred geese propelled their v
Last Line: I wasn't in their way
Subject(s): Geese; Travel


HONEYMOON FLIGHT, by J. E. NELSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They're flying north to the arctic seas
Last Line: To the bridal shores on hudson's bay.
Subject(s): Ducks; Geese; Migration; Mallards; Drakes


JOURNEYS, by KATHLEEN REA BRAID    Poem Text                    
First Line: A wedge of wild geese, poised in soaring gleams
Last Line: Then how lonely and long the journey back.
Subject(s): Geese; Longing


LAKESIDE GEESE, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Desoltaion. The forest's bones
Subject(s): Cold; Geese; Paintings & Painters


LAMENT FOR THE GONE-GEESE, by MARVIN MALONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The young goslings (green-fuzz gone
Last Line: At the periphery of all human activity
Subject(s): Geese; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996)


LAY OF A GOLDEN GOOSE, by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long ago in a poultry yard
Last Line: Took from her wing a quill and wrote %this lay of a golden goose
Subject(s): Geese


LONE WILD GOOSE, by TU FU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lone goose, not drinking or pecking for food
Last Line: The crows on the moors pay it no heed, %cawing and squawking in chaotic multitudes
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Geese; Solitude


LOST GEESE, by RUTH ROWLETT CHURCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The honking geese in piteous plight
Last Line: In one safe flight to your destined end.
Subject(s): Geese


MARIE AND ELLA (2), by SHARON CHMIELARZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Marie coffin, my mother's neighbor on the south
Last Line: Who've seen the world, from both top and bottom
Subject(s): Geese; Neighbors; Old Age; Women


NEAR HUNSTANTON, by MICHAEL HOFMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: These are my own crows in a mechanical flap
Last Line: My jellyfish that you trod on in your sensible shoes
Subject(s): Geese; Swamps


OLD GREY GOOSE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go and tell aunt nancy
Last Line: She left nine little goslings, %to scratch for their own bread
Subject(s): Geese


ON THE GRASS, by MIYOSHI TATSUJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Goose running along the lane
Last Line: And - into the water she goes!
Subject(s): Geese


ON THE SET TOPIC: 'WILD GOOSE ON THE SANDS', by GENG WEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Still a long road to travel to heng-yang
Last Line: What thoughts as it stands alone on the beach? - %only worries that frost and sleet will come
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Geese; Migration


ONE DAY THE BISHOP OFFERED TO GIVE A GENTLEMAN A GOOSE ..., by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies edmund keene lord bishop of chester
Last Line: And this upon his lady--
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Geese; Keene, Edward. Bishop Of Chester


PANEGYRIC ON GEESE, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hate to sing your hackneyed birds
Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father
Subject(s): Geese


PITCH O' PINE SONNETSL 3. CLEM'S FOOL, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clem told the 'squire that ben was growing strong
Last Line: Sore stabbed the 'squire, -- 'twas clem the burden bore.
Subject(s): Children; Geese; Hens; Physicians; Childhood; Doctors


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 11. SCRIPT, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No word the wild geese cry
Last Line: In silence on the sky.
Subject(s): Geese; Writing & Writers


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 26. LOST, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wild geese find their way
Last Line: Yet I cannot by day.
Subject(s): Geese; Night; Bedtime


PREDICTIONS ABOUT A BLACK CAR, by MARK WUNDERLICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four boys have been arrested for killing geese. This is how it happened
Last Line: Was quiet, in need of no other
Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Geese


RELEASING A MIGRANT YEN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At nine rivers, in the tenth year, in winter, - heavy snow
Last Line: They will pluck from your body those long feathers and make them into arrow-wings!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Freedom; Geese; Liberty


RHYME, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've got a stubborn goose whose gut's
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Geese


RINCONDA ROAST GOOSE, by PATRICIA NIELSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rinse giblets and cover with water. Add celery
Last Line: Baked squash
Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Geese


SHORTAGE OF EELGRASS AND CORN, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Humanitarian efforts were, of course, extended to the geese
Last Line: By volume, or won any medals for empathy, but I was sad
Subject(s): Geese; Migration


SLANT MESSAGE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell them how tame geese lure wild ones
Last Line: Their ways, like this, into my talk, my telling
Subject(s): Geese; Nature


SNOW GEESE, by ALAN+(2) SULLIVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the last asters have withered
Last Line: The blizzard comes swiftly behind
Subject(s): Geese; Snow; Storms


SNOW GEESE AT DESOTO BEND, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The missouri twists below them
Last Line: A tolling of bells, a benediction
Subject(s): Geese; Memory; Missouri; Wings


SNOW GEESE OVER LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, by JUDITH MINTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: All evening, they pass and keep passing overhead
Last Line: They're drifting away. They're leaving us behind. Their song is %desire. Desire. Desire
Subject(s): Geese; Migration


SOMETHING TOLD THE WILD GEESE, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Summer sun was on their wings, %winter in their cry
Subject(s): Geese; Weather


TAMED DRAKE, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The farmer's son had found
Subject(s): Farm Life; Geese


TELL ME A STORY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long ago, in kentucky, I, a boy, stood
Subject(s): Geese; Time


THE CHRISTMAS GOOSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr smiggs was a gentleman
Last Line: "aye, and pick it to the bone."
Subject(s): Birds; Christmas; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Geese; Holidays; Nativity, The


THE FLIGHT OF THE GEESE, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the low wind wash the softening snow
Last Line: A boding of unknown, foreshadowed things.
Subject(s): Geese; Migration


THE FLIGHT OF THE WILD GEESE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wrapt in the darkness of the night
Last Line: (thrice the banshee cries in the stormy night.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Geese


THE GEESE, by JORIE GRAHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today as I hang out the wash I see them again, a code
Last Line: This astonishing delay, the everyday, takes place
Subject(s): Geese


THE GIGGLING GAGGLING GAGGLE OF GEESE, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Geese


THE GOOSE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew an old wife lean and poor
Last Line: And god forget the stranger!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Geese


THE GOOSE AND THE GANDER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O the goose and the gander walk'd over the green
Last Line: And she laid a white egg in a willow tree root
Subject(s): Geese


THE GOOSE EXPLAINS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a goose who sadly cried
Last Line: "to try to help -- when one's a goose!"
Subject(s): Geese


THE SELVEGE, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: So door to door among the shotgun
Subject(s): Social Classes; Geese; Obama, Barack; Racism; Caste; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE WILD GEESE, by JAMES HERBERT MORSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: T is we who dread the thunder, and not they.
Subject(s): Geese


THE WILD GEESE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked by esknahinny at the waning of the moon
Last Line: The wild geese, the wild geese, they have come home once more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Geese; Ireland; Irish


THE WILD GEESE COME OVER NO MORE, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wild geese come over no more
Last Line: Memory, care, and rue.
Subject(s): Geese; Hearts; Memory; Youth


THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF NICE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That affable person of nice!
Subject(s): Geese; Old Age


TO A FLOCK OF GEESE, by CLARK MCADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye wild, free troopers of the skies
Last Line: With your wild-ringing cries.
Subject(s): Feathers; Geese; Sky; Wilderness; Wings


TO A GOOSE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou didst feed on western plains of yore
Last Line: Seasoned with sage and onions, and port wine.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet To A Goose
Subject(s): Geese


UNBEWILDERED, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gray geese come honking from the north'...But led
Last Line: A voice once spake in far off galilee.
Subject(s): Geese; Migration


UNTIL AT LENGTH THE NORTH WINDS BLOW, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Leaving behind the cold, cold year
Subject(s): Winter; Geese; Time


UP TO ME, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stole a glance at polly
Last Line: "I'll know that it is ""up to me."
Subject(s): Feathers; Geese; Likes & Dislikes


VISITATION, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night you called me out to the december dark
Subject(s): Geese


VISITORS, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Geese


WALKING THE GEESE HOME, by JUDY JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't know what patterns itself in their minds
Subject(s): Geese


WALKING THE GEESE HOME, by JUDY JORDAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't know what patterns itself in their minds
Last Line: Arm in arm with nothing but the freckled wind
Subject(s): Geese


WE MIGHT CHANGE, by JAMES DENBOER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The geese feel the low pressure
Last Line: Choose-live until spring
Subject(s): Cold; December; Feathers; Geese; Winter


WILD GEESE, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wild white geese fly over
Last Line: That now I scarcely know.
Subject(s): Geese


WILD GEESE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They're shy as the otter, they're sly as the fox
Last Line: When the grey geese come calling off the tides!
Subject(s): Geese; Hunting; Hunters


WILD GEESE, by ELEANOR (ELINOR) CHIPP    Poem Source                    
First Line: I heard the wild geese flying
Last Line: In the dead of the night
Subject(s): Birds; Geese


WILD GEESE, by MARION E. THORPE DILLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across a tranquil sky
Last Line: Across a tranquil sky.
Subject(s): Geese


WILD GEESE, by RUTH CURTIS DOUGLAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flying wedges of the wild, gray geese
Last Line: Through night, through storm -- god knows what lies in wait.
Subject(s): Flight; Geese; Time; Travel; Flying; Journeys; Trips


WILD GEESE, by FLORENCE LIND    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wild geese today
Last Line: Chalked a path to the north.
Subject(s): Geese


WILD GEESE, by ELLA MOORE MARSHALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: At the sound of the wild geese
Last Line: To the port of your heart, my dear!
Subject(s): Birds; Geese; Wings


WILD GEESE, by ISABEL STEWART MCMEEKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is necessity in your swift flight
Last Line: Hail and farewell. O birds, godspeed!
Subject(s): Geese


WILD GEESE, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: You do not have to be good
Subject(s): Geese; Despair; Conduct Of Life


WILD GEESE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When naked winter on the midnight falls
Last Line: Or spirit choirs dark-flying towards some dawn?
Subject(s): Geese; Stars; Winter


WILD GEESE, by FREDERICK PETERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: How oft against the sunset sky or moon
Last Line: Symbol of coming springs!
Subject(s): Geese; Spring


WILD GEESE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun blown out
Last Line: A cry!
Subject(s): Geese


WILD GEESE, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: High in the april air
Last Line: Back to her southern home.
Subject(s): Geese; South Dakota; Spring


WILD GEESE, by GEORGE SINGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out there
Last Line: It is also %this unquestioning flight
Subject(s): Geese; Migration


WILD GEESE, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blows, the sun shines, the birds sing loud
Subject(s): Geese


WILD GEESE (1740), by HENRY LONGAN STUART    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a cloud across the moon
Last Line: Mine to me.
Subject(s): Geese


WILD GEESE IN MIDWINTER, by STANLEY E. BABB    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unravelling from the rags of the clouds, a tangle
Subject(s): Geese


WILD GEESE RETURNING, by TSUMORI KUNIMOTO    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In faded ink!
Subject(s): Animals; Geese


WILD GEESE SANG, by KUMHONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wild geese sang across a thin jade sky
Last Line: Its cold glimmers faded within me
Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Geese; Love - Loss Of; Wings


WILD GEESE WENT BY, by FRANCES STOCKWELL LOVELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: O you who leave all lands now grown forlorn
Last Line: But march from silver waters to joys past compare!
Subject(s): Geese; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


WILD GOOSE, by CURTIS HEATH    Poem Source                    
First Line: He climbs the wind above
Last Line: That geese are silly
Subject(s): Animals; Geese


WINTER GEESE, by JAMES MCCORKLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gray floater stain the eye's surface
Last Line: Within an orbit oblivious to moon or stars, %beacons lit but vanishing
Subject(s): Geese; Winter