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Subject: MONKEYS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DARWINIAN BALLAD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, many have told of the monkeys of old"
Subject(s): "darwin, Charles (1809-1882);monkeys;


A' CAUDAL' LECTURE, by WILLIAM SAWYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Philosophy shows us 'twixt monkey and man
Last Line: Instead of remaining each one a stump orator.
Subject(s): Evolution; Monkeys


ALTITUDES, by MRS. PERRY E. TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: The spider monkey from honduras climbs to my neck
Last Line: Ha-ha's at the world.
Subject(s): Monkeys


AT WOODWARD'S GARDENS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A boy, presuming on his intellect
Last Line: That blinking could not seem to blink away
Subject(s): Monkeys; Knowledge


AUTUMN COVE, by LI PO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At autumn cove, so many white monkeys
Last Line: They coax and pull their young ones down from the branches %to drink and frolic with the water-borne
Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai
Subject(s): Monkeys


CORTEGE, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A silver-vested monkey trips
Last Line: Indifferent or unaware.
Subject(s): Monkeys


FABLES: 1ST SER. 40. THE TWO MONKEYS, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The learned, full of inward pride
Last Line: I hate the imitating crew.
Subject(s): Monkeys


FAMILY MONKEY, by RUSSELL EDSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We bought an electric monkey, experimenting rather recklessly with
Last Line: We had electrocuted the family monkey
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Monkeys


FEAR AND THE MONKEY, by WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Turgid rich and thhe perfume of death
Last Line: Dispersal and emptiness
Subject(s): Monkeys


HUNTER POEMS OF THE YORUBA, SELS., by UNKNOWN                       
Subject(s): Animals; Antelopes; Hunting; Monkeys


LINES TO A MONKEY, by HENRY RUTGERS CONGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: It seems quite funny to reflect
Last Line: Will look like me.
Subject(s): Monkeys


LOVE IN A ZOO, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What I offer she strips
Last Line: And picking fleas
Subject(s): Love; Monkeys


MONKEY, by RUFUS FESTUS AVIENUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Never mind why - the gods behave with whimsy - but once
Last Line: And awe before her blind passion's truth
Alternate Author Name(s): Avianus
Subject(s): Monkeys


MONKEY, by ROBERT S. OLIVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mischievous monkey; behavior cantankerous
Last Line: You don't like us, and we sure don't like you!
Subject(s): Animals; Monkeys


MONKEY AND THE CAT, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bertrand and raton - a monkey and a cat
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables; Monkeys


MONKEY'S CAROL, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kind christian souls who pass me by
Subject(s): Monkeys


MONKEY'S CHILDREN, by SIV CEDERING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here is a story for you
Last Line: And caught my love in the air
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Monkeys


MONKEY'S GLUE, by GOLDWIN GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the monkey in his madness
Subject(s): Monkeys


MONKEYLAND, by SANDOR WEORES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh for far-off monkeyland
Subject(s): Monkeys; Scottish Translations


MONKEYLAND, by SANDOR WEORES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh for far-off monkeyland
Last Line: The monkeys' world the world we face
Subject(s): Monkeys; Scottish Translations


MONKEYS SEARCH EACH OTHER, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of our advancement
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Human Behavior; Monkeys; Nature


MONKEYS WILL MISS YOU, by CAROL MICKETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forgetting our last night when you wouldn't touch the cat
Last Line: I buy you savage bliss from the ladies room in grand junction
Subject(s): Farewell; Monkeys


NONSENSE RHYMES: 23, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How pretty and neat
Last Line: With nuts to eat
Subject(s): Monkeys;nonsense


SOLOMON AND THE MONKEYS, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Apes and peacocks and almug and ivory
Last Line: That's their wisdom of gods of old!
Subject(s): Monkeys; Wisdom


SONNET TO A MONKEY, by MARJORIE FLEMING    Poem Text                    
First Line: O lively [or, lovely], o must charming pug
Last Line: So was obliged to call him woman.
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Marjory
Variant Title(s): A Sonnet On A Monkey
Subject(s): Monkeys


SPECTATORS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We watched the monkeys in the cage
Last Line: They turned and gravely laughed at us.
Subject(s): Animals; April; Cages; Monkeys; Zoos


STUPID MEDITATION ON PEACE, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Insomniac monkey-mind ponders the dove,
Subject(s): Sex Role; Monkeys; Peace; Breast Feeding; Relationships; Nursing (infants)


SWELL PEOPLE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There will always be monkeys and peacocks
Subject(s): Monkeys; Peacocks


THE BLACK MONKEY, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My babbles has a nasty knack
Last Line: What did she have for evening tea?
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Monkeys


THE HEADLINER AND THE BREADWINNER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moko, the educated ape is here
Last Line: "moko's, the blest, the educated ape."
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Monkeys; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans


THE MARMOZET, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The species man and marmozet
Last Line: But men are all extinct.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Mankind; Monkeys; Human Race


THE MONKEY STORY, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father visited us in baton rouge one weekend
Last Line: Young enough to live through anything
Subject(s): Cuban Americans; Cuba; Monkeys


THE MONKEY'S COUSIN, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall reach up, I shall grow
Last Line: From the terror of my stride!
Subject(s): Monkeys


THE MONKEY-SHOWMAN; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A monkey who, by many a prank
Last Line: Who lacks illuminating brains!
Subject(s): Ignorance; Monkeys; Dullness; Stupdity


THE MONKEY-TOURIST; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A monkey clad in cloth-of-gold
Last Line: That men as well as monkeys make!
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Monkeys


THE SHIP OF RIO, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a ship of rio
Last Line: For nuts across the sand!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Monkeys; Sea; Ocean


THREE WISE MONKEYS, by FLORENCE BOYCE DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a temple at kioto in far-away japan
Subject(s): Monkeys


WISH-WASH. TEN THOUSAND TONS OF PEANUTS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Oh taste and see, but not in a hurry
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Monkeys; Nature; Nuts And Nutting