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Subject: JUNGLES
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First Line: How the wind shrieks!
Last Line: Of far-off africa.
Subject(s): Africa; Flowers; Jungles; Travel; Violets; Journeys; Trips


AN EVENING WALK IN BENGAL, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our task is done! On gunga's breast
Last Line: His peace on earth, -- his hope of heaven!
Subject(s): Jungles; Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips


AUTUMN DAWNING, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A long roadway %between gray cliff sides
Last Line: Between his nimble hounds, a hunter is walking
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Autumn; Home; Jungles; Nature; Seasons


BIRTH OF THE SUN, by PABLO ANTONIO CUADRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have invented new worlds. I have dreamed
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Jungles; Youth


COSSIMBAZAR, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come fleetly, come fleetly, my hookabadar
Last Line: Join in the chorus, my hookabadar.
Subject(s): India; Jungles; Music & Musicians; Nonsense


FIELDWORK, by BOB HICOK    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are two kinds of people and five hundred
Last Line: The jealous eyes of god have seen?
Subject(s): Amazons; Beetles; Insects; Jungles; Wilderness; Bugs


FIELDWORK, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are two kinds of people and five hundred
Last Line: A fraction and flutter of life not even %the jealous eyes of god have seen?
Subject(s): Amazons; Beetles; Insects; Jungles; Wilderness


INSPIRATION, by STUART JOHN DYBEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Finally, down an askew side street
Last Line: Of what may have been a jaguar
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Jungles; Taxis


JUNGLE, by ALUN LEWIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In mole-blue indolence the sun %plays idly on the stagnant pool
Last Line: Or does the will's long struggle end %with the last kindness of a foe or friend?
Subject(s): Jungles; Soldiers' Writings


JUNGLE NIGHT, by WYTHEL M. HUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Night settles / leaf-nosed vampires
Last Line: Their light where jaguars tread.
Subject(s): Jungles


JUNGLE PEST, by ROLAND YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: This cheerful picture shows the fate
Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Jungles; Lions


JUNGLESIDE, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the jungle he builds a house of cinderblock
Subject(s): Jungles


JUNGLESIDE, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the jungle he buildsa house of cinderblock
Last Line: To the jungle, unovercome
Subject(s): Jungles


MISCEGENOUS ZEBRA, by ROLAND YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The zebra, born both black and white
Subject(s): Animals; Jungles; Lions; Zebras


NEW JOURNEY, by JAVIER HERAUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I must travel again
Last Line: The untracked jungles
Subject(s): Jungles; Travel


PILOT IN THE JUNGLE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Machine stitched rivets ravel on a tree
Last Line: Past heads and tails, past vertebrae and gill %to bedrocks out of time, with time to kill
Subject(s): Air Warfare; Jungles


SAFARI FIGURE, by CARL PHILLIPS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An intention toward
Last Line: My face, or his, that I'm startled by
Subject(s): Jungles


SPEAKING TOURS, by GORDON HICKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kong, at his kitchen table, peers around himself and sees linoleum
Last Line: King kong wants to go back home. Wants it all to go away
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Jungles; King Kong


TARZAN IS DEAD, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The radio announces
Last Line: Tarzan is dead
Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Jungles


THE CAGED LION, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In prison, to and fro you pace
Last Line: Puppet of a grinning fate?
Subject(s): Animals; Jungles; Lions


THE JUNGLE, by ALUN LEWIS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In mole-blue indolence the sun / plays idly on the stagnant pool
Subject(s): Jungles; Soldiers' Writings


THE JUNGLE WALLAH, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The jungle wallah, he lives alone
Last Line: When the jungle shall call him back.
Subject(s): Animals; Jungles; Travel; Wilderness; Journeys; Trips


THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now this is the law of the jungle - as old and as true as the sky
Last Line: But the head and the hoof of the law and the haunch and the hump is -- obey!
Subject(s): Jungles; Survival


THE PILOT IN THE JUNGLE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Machine stitched rivets ravel on a tree
Last Line: To bedrocks out of time, with time to kill
Subject(s): Air Warfare; Jungles


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. INDIA, THE WISDOM-LAND, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here also in india - wonderful, hidden - over thousands of miles
Last Line: The precious semen of democracy.
Subject(s): Himalayas (mountains); India; Jungles; Nations; Nature


TROPICA; A FRAGMENT, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis night in a far-off clime
Last Line: Rouse her from her dreamy rest!
Subject(s): Animals; Hunger; Hunting; Jungles; Native Americans; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


WHAT TO THINK OF, by MARK STRAND    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Think of the jungle,
Subject(s): Jungles; Paraguay