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Subject: LAMBS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MERRY HEART: LOVE SONG, by THELMA LUCILE LULL    Poem Text                    
First Line: O my starling, my comic anthropoid
Last Line: Because I am affectionut!
Subject(s): Lambs; Pets


AL-HALLAJ, by INGEMAR LECKIUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: O untamed lamb!
Last Line: The only one...
Subject(s): Lambs


EASIER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: How peacefully he wipes the bloddy knife
Last Line: Is easier than chopping up a man
Subject(s): Blood; Butchers; Knives; Lambs; Murder


FABLE: THE LAMB AND THE PIG, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Consult the moralist, you'll find
Last Line: That once a lrog, and always so.
Subject(s): Deception; Fables; Lambs; Pigs; Allegories; Boars; Hogs


FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE WOLF, THE SHEEP, AND THE LAMB, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Duty demands the parent's voice
Last Line: Beneath his jaws the victim dies.
Subject(s): Fables; Lambs; Marriage; Sheep; Wolves; Allegories; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


FLOCKS AND HERDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grey spring day / and a grey sky
Last Line: The grey clouds lie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Clouds; Gray (color); Lambs; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Grey (color)


FOR A LAMB, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw on the slant hill a putrid lamb
Subject(s): Lambs


FOR A LAMB, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw on the slant hill a putrid lamb
Last Line: Say, there's a lamb in the daisies
Subject(s): Lambs


I HELD A LAMB, by KIM WORTHINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day when I went visiting
Last Line: It licked me on the hand
Subject(s): Lambs


JULY 30, ANDRAZ, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My brother strides naked
Last Line: Immovable, unalterable itch
Subject(s): Animals; Food And Eating; Hunting; Lambs


LAMB, by CHANG MAN-YUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The little lamb today again
Last Line: Listening to the birds, %longs for the tender voice of his mother
Subject(s): Lambs


LAMB, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A month before easter
Last Line: After the lamb had been wept for %its flesh was easter
Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Lambs


LAMB, by KATE GREENAWAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, lamb, no longer naughty be
Variant Title(s): The Ungrateful Lam
Subject(s): Lambs


LAMBS IN THE MEADOW, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O little lambs! The month is cold
Subject(s): Lambs


LIE DOWN WITH THE LAMBS, by TESS GALLAGHER            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Lambs


LITTLE YOUNG LAMBS, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the fold %out the wold
Subject(s): Lambs


MARY'S LAMB, by SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mary had a little lamb
Last Line: If you are always kind.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Sara; Hale, Sarah Josepha
Variant Title(s): Mary And Her Lamb;mary's Little Lamb
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Lambs; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


MENAPHON: DORON'S JIG, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the shrubs as I can crack
Last Line: Shepherds' loves.
Subject(s): Animals; Lambs; Shepherds & Shepherdesses


MY HOGGIE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What will I do gin my hoggie die
Last Line: And maist has kill'd my hoggie!
Subject(s): Lambs


NANCY'S LAMB, by ELEANOR GLENN WALLIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Will-o'-wisp and fox-fire burn
Last Line: And unwise.
Subject(s): Lambs


NEW LAMBS, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I shut thon windies, sure
Last Line: Dream-childer comes wid sleep!
Subject(s): Children; Lambs; Childhood


PALLID CUCKOO, by DAVID WATT IAN CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alone the pallid cuckoo now
Subject(s): Lambs


POOR MAILIE'S ELEGY, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lament in rhyme, lament in prose
Last Line: His mailie's dead!
Subject(s): Lambs


SHEEP AND LAMBS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: All in the april evening
Last Line: And thought on the lamb of god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Crucifixion; Lambs; Sheep; Childhood; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


SHILOH'S SEED, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shiloh's seed shall not be sewn
Subject(s): Birth; Lambs; God; Child Birth; Midwifery


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 28, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the grassy banks
Last Line: Watch by them and bleat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Lambkins;lambs At Play
Subject(s): Lambs


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 56, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A motherless soft lambkin
Last Line: Until he's strong and bold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Lambs


SONG, by THOMAS HOLCROFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When o'er the wold the heedless lamb
Last Line: And bounds with pleasure when they meet!
Subject(s): Animals; Lambs


SONG TO THE LAMB, by NOVICA TADIC    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lamb indestructible lamb
Last Line: Accurately settles down
Subject(s): Lambs


THE DEAD CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little son was dead
Last Line: The mother is in heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Death; Innocence; Lambs; Mothers; Sons; Childhood; Dead, The


THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As mailie, an' her lambs together
Last Line: And clos'd her een amang the dead!
Subject(s): Lambs


THE ENIGMA, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Falling to sleep last night in a deep crevasse
Subject(s): Dreams; Lambs; Nightmares


THE FRISKING LAMB, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though gay its life, in fact and fable
Last Line: In death its fate is lamb-on-table.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Lambs


THE LAMB, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A month before easter
Last Line: Its flesh was easter
Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Lambs; The Resurrection


THE LAMB, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little lamb, who made thee: / dost thou know who made thee?
Last Line: Little lamb god bless thee.
Variant Title(s): The Lamb
Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Lambs; Mythology; Religion; Theology


THE LAMBS OF GRASMERE, 1860, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The upland flocks grew starved and thinned
Last Line: And scarce-saved lambs of westmoreland.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Grasmere, England; Lambs


THE LEGEND OF THE DEAD LAMBS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death, though already in the world
Last Line: "see, adam's wife hath made a sheep of him!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Lambs


THE ORIGINAL LAMB, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, mary had a little lamb, regarding whose cuticular"
Last Line: "thanks, teacher dear, the scholars cried, and awe crept darkly o'er 'em"
Subject(s): Lambs;love


THE PET LAMB, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink
Last Line: "that I almost received her heart into my own."
Subject(s): Lambs


THY LILIES DRINK THE DEW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Spotless and sweet,thy lamb to follow thee
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Lilies; Lambs; God


UNSPOTTED LAMBS TO FOLLOW THE ONE LAMB, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I know the answer unto love is love
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Lambs; Love


VEAL, by GAAR SCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do not know every
Last Line: Of the day the tun of that meat %cutter trying to forget
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Lambs


WINTER LAMBS, by JANE KENYON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night snow came upon us
Last Line: Agree or disagree
Subject(s): Winter; Lambs; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery


YOUNG LAMBS, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spring is coming by a many signs
Last Line: Close by and never stirs, but beaking lies %with legs stretched out as though he could not rise
Subject(s): Lambs