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Subject: GOATS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALL GOATS, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All goats have a wild-brier grace
Last Line: Satiric eye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Goats


ALPHABESTIARY: N, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: N is for nannygoat -- the silly
Last Line: And write your own end to my poem
Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Goats


ARKHANGEL'SK, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The yellow goat in winter sunlight
Last Line: Bullets rippling like moles under the plaster.
Subject(s): Death; Goats; Lent; Prisoners Of War; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953); Dead, The


COMPLETION, by ROBERT MCALMON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday was tomorrow
Subject(s): Goats; Death - Animals


ENCOUNTER IN A LOCAL PUB, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As he looked up from his glass, its quickly melting ice
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Goats; Bars & Bartenders; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons


ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S GOAT, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: He really did have one. Met it
Subject(s): Goats; Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)


FABLES: 1ST SER. 22. THE GOAT WITHOUT A BEARD, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis certain, that the modish passions
Last Line: To all but coxcombs are a jest.
Subject(s): Goats


GINGER, by CARL RAKOSI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I the only one
Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann
Subject(s): Goats


GOAT, by UMBERTO SABA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have spoken with a goat
Last Line: Of all living things and their trouble
Subject(s): Animals; Fields; Goats


GOAT, by UMBERTO SABA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had a conversation with a goat
Last Line: I heard the cry of every woe on earth, %every life on earth
Subject(s): Goats


GOATS, by MICHAEL CHITWOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Squirrels with hooves
Last Line: Out on 58, heading for independence
Subject(s): Goats


GOATS, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wherever the earth is rugged and poor, there they are
Last Line: She was my horse, and perhaps my first woman, as well
Subject(s): Animals; Goats; Hunting


GOATS, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What I liked best in sicily
Last Line: They seek the mountain and the tumbling flood.
Subject(s): Goats; Sicily


GOATSUCKER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old goatherds swear how all night long they hear
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Goats; Birds


HOLY SATYR, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most holy satyr
Last Line: Answering note for note.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Goats


IT HAPPENS LIKE THIS, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was outside st. Cecelia's rectory
Subject(s): Goats; Patience


LIKE DE OLE MULE BES', by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some folks is so't o' pa'shal to de cattle roun' de
Last Line: I so't o' like de ole mule bes'.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Chickens; Cows; Dogs; Farm Life; Goats; Love; Agriculture; Farmers


LOOMING FLOCK, by JUDY GALBRAITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was dreaming my father
Last Line: A whole flock hanging behind and %coming even closer
Subject(s): Dreams; Fathers; Goats


MY LORD, TH' INDICTMENT DO'S NOT RUN, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: At length, and let us have the goats
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Goats; Trials


NOSEGAY FOR A YOUNG GOAT, by WINIFRED WELLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: With what smug elegance the small goat minces
Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs.
Subject(s): Goats


ODE TO SENOR LEAL'S GOAT, by GARY SOTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the back yard
Last Line: Of man's bad habit
Subject(s): Goats


OLD MAN'S CASE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am not in court for any assault
Last Line: You will soon get to my three she-goats
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Goats; Trials


ON A BEAUTIFUL BAR BUTTERFLY IN THE BLACK CAT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vinea submittit car(e)as non semper edulis
Last Line: She-goats bred in vineyards are not always edible
Subject(s): Goats; Latin; Nonsense


PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO CHAOS IN THE HEARTLAND: 3. GRASSLA6NDS, by JESSICA GOODFELLOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: We haven't pass7ed another car all day
Last Line: Lost: where pointle7ssness %is the po36nt
Subject(s): Animals; Fields; Goats


QUACK!' SAID THE BILLY GOAT, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: That's the reason why
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Goats; Noises; Sound


ROADSIDE POEMS: THE SHEEP AND THE GOAT, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thousand streets of london gray
Last Line: Thou didst it unto him.
Subject(s): Children; Faith; Goats; Poverty; Sheep; Childhood; Belief; Creed


SELF PORTRAIT ON A ROCKY MOUNT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the goat. Caroline by name. Nee 6 january. Domesticated
Last Line: This we call industrial poetry. Both of us being bearded, mystic, horned
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Goats


SMILE OF THE GOAT, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The smile of the goat has a meaning that few
Last Line: The censor attending a risque revue %and combining stern duty with pleasure
Subject(s): Goats; Smiles


THE GOAT, by ANYTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Red reins, o goat, these boys have set about
Last Line: That he may look on them with kindly face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anytes
Subject(s): Goats


THE GOAT PATHS, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The crooked paths / go every way
Last Line: Of my mind.
Subject(s): Goats; Solitude; Loneliness


THE GOOD SHEPHERD WITH THE KID, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save
Last Line: And on his shoulders, not a lamb, a kid.
Subject(s): Goats; God; Religion; Sheep; Theology


THE SCAPEGOAT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They bore me away from the happy flock
Last Line: God only knows, not I!
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Goats; Guilt; Jesus Christ; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology


WHITE GOAT, WHITE RAM, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gaiety of three winds is a game of green
Last Line: Offends, for the ground where we find we stand is holy
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Animals; Goats


WHOSE GOAT?, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Broken bleats
Last Line: Slowly around their own goat
Subject(s): Goats