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Subject: PETS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHILD'S PET, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I sailed out of baltimore
Last Line: Would stroke that sheep's black nose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Pets; Sheep


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


ANIMOOSH, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A girl surrounded by brothers
Last Line: Bounding through the long field of goldenrod and sun
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets


BEYOND THE BLUE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Speak of you, sir? You bet he did. Ben fields was far too sound
Last Line: Of seeing ben some day again, 'way up beyond the blue.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Animals; Despair; Dogs; Loyalty; Pets


BIG DOG, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I bring you / this head
Last Line: Be a man again.
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets


CITY STREET, by GRACE MANSFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old holder woman wears several skirts
Last Line: "and calls never a word except -- ""pears!"
Subject(s): Pets


DISASTER, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas ever thus from childhood's hour
Last Line: If some big dog should swallow tiny.
Subject(s): Ingenuity; Pets


DOMESTIC SONNET, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cat gave birth to an adder. The dog died
Last Line: It works somehow, never entirely well
Subject(s): Pets


DRESSING UP OUR PETS, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sew a bright hood for my pet mouse
Subject(s): Pets; Clothing & Dress


FAMILY ROMANCE, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He inherits currency worth half its value
Subject(s): Pets


FAMILY ROMANCE, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He inherits currency worth half its value
Last Line: Maternal intervention made more alarming by its ambiguity
Subject(s): Pets


GEIST'S GRAVE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four years! - and didst thou stay above
Last Line: The dachs-hound, geist, their little friend.
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Pets


HIMALAYA APE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now listen, evolutionists
Last Line: Or of the missing link.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Pets; Science; Teaching & Teachers; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Scientists; Educators; Professors


IF YOU, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you were going to get a pet
Subject(s): Pets


JANE - A TERRIER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She's short in the leg and she's long in the jaw
Last Line: Does good little sister jane!
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets


MAKING FRIENDS, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The eve I came the dog 'gan bark
Last Line: And thus their friend all friendly greet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste
Subject(s): Family Lifel Pets


MEAL, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the white plate %somewhat chipped
Last Line: And with no fear of the night
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunger; Pets


MY BROTHER BERT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pets are the hobby of my brother bert
Last Line: And what, oh what, would the neighbors say
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Brothers; Pets


MY LITTLE DOG AND ME, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My little dog knows just as much
Last Line: Don't hafter care fer me.
Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Pets; Childhood


ORANGE CAT, by CAROLINE BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My cat is a hand my cat
Last Line: Says my cat it happens however many again and again
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Pets


OZARK ODES: JUDGE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Had a boyhood. Had his own rooster. Name of andy
Last Line: Made him bald. This really vexed judge's old daddy
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Boys; Children; Pets; Roosters


PATSY, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Puppy dog, rough as a bramble
Last Line: Rats, little hound of beelzebub, rats!
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets


PET'S PUNISHMENT, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, if my love offended me
Last Line: And punish her -- with kisses!
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Pets; Women; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


PETS, by MARTIN BELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Domestication for use
Subject(s): Pets


PETS, by MARGARET BENSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once on a time I used to dream
Last Line: We love you better every day.
Subject(s): Pets


PETS, by MICHELLE T. CLINTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hard xmas was the hardest
Last Line: But after that caught distemper %& died anyway
Subject(s): Pets


PETS, by S. C. HAHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He beats his life until it cringes or attacks. He
Subject(s): Pets


PETS, by JOHN KITCHING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm a dog %all tail and bark
Last Line: And twitching fear
Subject(s): Pets


PETS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Frog 3b
Last Line: Parakeet p
Subject(s): Animals; Pets


PETS, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: For most, loving is being led
Last Line: When you are half-awake in bed, %breathe your breath, and are content
Subject(s): Pets


PETS, by BARON WORMSER    Poem Source                    
First Line: As lives sprout purposes, animals will enter
Subject(s): Pets


POEM WITH ONE FACT, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At pet stores in detroit, you can buy
Subject(s): Pets; Detroit, Michigan


RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It begins with my dog, now dead, who all his long life
Last Line: It will snow fiercely enough to fill all these open graves
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Pets


SLEEPING WITH BOA, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I show her how to put her arms around me
Subject(s): Pets


THDE NEW AUSTERITY, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart is lonely so he buys a bird
Last Line: In the new austerity of heart's life, this is enough
Subject(s): Pets


THE DISASTER, by MARY SAVAGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: By sparrows drawn, there's now no chance
Last Line: And in my husband's chariot come.
Subject(s): Pets; Sparrows


THE FEARFUL CHILD, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a child I parleyed with animals, stuffed and real.
Subject(s): Children; Pets; Family Life; Fear; Childhood; Relatives


THE LINNET; A FABLE, by HELEN LEIGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Young celia was beauteous, and blithe as the morn
Last Line: By false notions of freedom betray'd!
Subject(s): Linnets; Pets


THE LITTLE BIRD'S COMPLAINT TO HIS MISTRESS, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in this wiry prison, where I sing
Last Line: And sing sweet songs to freedom and to thee.
Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Pets; Liberty


THE MISTRESS'S REPLY TO HER LITTLE BIRD, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear little bird, don't make this piteous cry
Last Line: But now 'twould kill thee soon, to let thee fly.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Freedom; Pets; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Liberty


THE PET COON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Noey bixler ketched him, an' fetched him in to me
Last Line: "er 'greedy,' next he whips yer dog, shall whip you, too!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets; Raccoons


THE PLAYMATE, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I barked beneath his window, 'come and play!'
Last Line: There's nothing left to do but wait—and wait.
Subject(s): Animals; Children; Dogs; Pets; Play; Childhood


THE TREASURED THREE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Here with my treasured three I sit
Last Line: To leave this little house of joy?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Pets; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO A TERRIER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Crib, on your grave beneath the chestnut boughs
Last Line: Ere death the dog-thief carried you afar!
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Pets


TO AN IRISH TERRIER, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rough is your coat and sharp the bite and bark
Last Line: In answer to our call and every need.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets


TO OUR HOUSE-DOG CAPTAIN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Captain! We often heretofore
Last Line: To drive the pauper from the yard.
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets; Teeth; Trust; Toothaches


TOWSER, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I drove a horse for a long, long time
Last Line: Down 'neath the buttercups—and it's true of men, just as well as pups.
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Friendship; Pets


TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 1, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A speckled cat and a tame hare
Last Line: My great responsibilities?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Fools; Pets; Idiots


TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 2, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I slept on my three-legged stool by the fire
Last Line: The horn's sweet note and the tooth of the hound.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Fools; Pets; Idiots


VILLAGE DOGS, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Groggy, we watched the ball descend
Last Line: In the decades' first hour, who %could deny that the marriage was over?
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Marriage; Pets


WHAT MATTER?, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sure I'm sorry the crathur was scared, but I
Last Line: Ah what matter? Sure what should it matter? What matter, what matter at all?
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fields; Pets; Pastures; Meadows; Leas