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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BESTIARY: THE SERPENT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A worm thro' the world doth go
Last Line: What was given us from on high / let us hold it worthily
Subject(s): Animals;snakes; Serpents;vipers


A FACE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His face was like a snake's - wrinkled and loose
Last Line: And withered.
Subject(s): Animals; Old Age; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


A PORTRAIT OF MY ROOF, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My steel roof mirrors clouds
Last Line: Unlike anything one finds in reflection
Subject(s): Animals; Clouds; Grass; Snakes; Steel; Serpents; Vipers


A SCORPION UNDER EVERY STONE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "beware the lurking scorpion, friend"
Last Line: Leave mysteries alone
Subject(s): Animals;snakes; Serpents;vipers


A SNAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet is the swamp with its secrets
Last Line: And guile is where it goes.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1740;poem: 1780
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


A SNAKE ..., by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A snake no bigger
Last Line: On the open clasp.
Variant Title(s): A Snake
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers


A SNAKE YARN, by W. T. GOODGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You talk of snakes,' said jack the rat
Last Line: "it was a log!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Goodge, William Thomas
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Trees; Serpents; Vipers


AN AMERICAN LOVE-ODE; TAKEN FROM SECOND VOLUME OF MONTAGNE'S ESSAYS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, stay, thou lovely, fearful snake
Last Line: Stay, lovely, fearful adder stay.
Subject(s): Animals; Love; Montaigne, Michel De (1533-1592); Snakes; United States; Serpents; Vipers; America


ANOTHER COUNTRY, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I visited with the porpoises
Last Line: That harvest the tuna like wheat
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


COLD-BLOODED CREATURES, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Man, the egregious egoist
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Animals; Mankind; Snakes; Human Race; Serpents; Vipers


CROTALUS, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No life in earth, or air, or sky
Last Line: To lie, untrodden, in the sun!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you or I should die
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Snakes; Desire; Passion; Adultery; Children; Love; Middle Age; Absence; Relationships; Serpents; Vipers; Childhood; Separation; Isolation


FIVE HUNDRED A YEAR, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That gilt middle path, which the poet of rome
Last Line: I'd gladly give up my five hundred a year.
Subject(s): Animals; Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


GEO-BESTIARY: 31, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A few long miles up hog canyon
Last Line: To my breast, a truly inventive suicide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Fear; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


GHAZALS: 50, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A boot called botte sauvage renders rattlers harmless but they
Last Line: Edges are jagged; when cold, the skin peels off the tongue at touch.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Snakes; Women; Serpents; Vipers


HOW HARRY KILLED THE SNAKE, by CECIL JAMES KELLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You've heard the tales of droving
Last Line: When harry killed the snake.
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers


HUMPBACKS, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is, all around us
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


IN THE BEGINNING, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is how he made the snake
Last Line: It was dark of the sixth day.
Subject(s): Animals; Creation; God; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


JOHNSON'S ANTIDOTE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down along the snakebite river where the overlanders camp
Last Line: Somehow seems to dodge the subject of the snakebite antidote.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Life; Snakes; Camps; Summer Camps; Serpents; Vipers


LIZARDS AND SNAKES, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the summer road that ran by our front porch
Last Line: And swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail
Subject(s): Lizards; Snakes; Family Life; Serpents; Vipers; Relatives


MEDALLION, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the gate with star and moon
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


MEDITATIONS OF MAN'S MORTALITIE: ADAM AND EVE, by ALICE SUTCLIFFE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of all the trees that in the garden grew
Last Line: And both must dye and turned be to dust.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Eden; Religion; Snakes; Theology; Serpents; Vipers


MOUNTAIN WIND, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Watchful, in a canyon resting
Last Line: Hurtling to the sea.
Subject(s): Sea Monsters; Storms; Wind; Sea Serpents


MY ANGELINE, by HARRY BACHE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She kept her secret well, oh, yes
Last Line: My human snake, my angeline!
Subject(s): Animals; Marriage; Secrets; Snakes; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serpents; Vipers


NO SNAKE, by ANNIE FINCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside my eden I can find no snake.
Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray whales are going south: I see their fountains
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


OF A FAIR LADY PLAYING WITH A SNAKE, by EDMUND WALLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange that such horror and such grace
Last Line: A marble one so warmed would speak.
Variant Title(s): To A Fair Lady Playing With A Snake
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


ON JEAN FRERON, by VOLTAIRE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The other day while in the dale our friend did fare on
Last Line: The serpent burst in agony and died of biting!
Alternate Author Name(s): Arouet, Francoise Marie
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


ONE USED TO BE ABLE TO SAY, by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Even pollute the people under his own roof
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


RAVENESQUE, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt a golden snake
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Religion; Snakes; Nightmares; Theology; Serpents; Vipers


REPRISALS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our words were spoken, and our hate found tongue
Last Line: But with the hissing of a thousand snakes!
Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Hate; Malice; Mankind; Poisons & Poisoning; Snakes; Human Race; Serpents; Vipers


SMALL, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boa, once when you were small, you ate small things.
Last Line: Never the pinkness and honey of the human
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


SNAKE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A snake came to my water-trough
Last Line: A pettiness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


SNAKE, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poor unpardonable length
Last Line: And went on creating.
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


SNAKE, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And here is the serpent again
Variant Title(s): Spring
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


SNAKE MAN, by GEOFFREY BROCK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I in your company become the hognose snake
Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff
Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


SNAKE ON THE ETOWAH, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kicking through woods and fields, I'd spooked several
Last Line: The surface, sidling against the current.
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


SNAKE WOMAN, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was once the snake woman
Last Line: Now I'd consider the snake
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


SNAKECHARMER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the gods began one world, and man another,
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Eden; Snakes; Music & Musicians; Serpents; Vipers


SNAKESKIN, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is only the old yellow shell
Subject(s): Snakes; Time; Serpents; Vipers


SONG (1), by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to me in any shape
Last Line: Come, my own!
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Love; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers


SONG OF THE SERPENT-CHARMERS, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come forth, oh snake! Come forth, oh, glittering snake
Last Line: It costs thee dear!
Subject(s): Animals; India; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


SONG OF THE SNAKE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o, snake! Stay, stay, o snake! That my sister"
Last Line: "o, snake! Stay, stay, o snake!"
Subject(s): Animals;snakes; Serpents;vipers


SUICIDES, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ink blot, sperm on a slide, a squirm
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


TANKA DIARY (8), by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Hiking; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE BLACK SNAKE, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the black snake / flashed onto the morning road
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE BOY AND THE SNAKE, by CHARLES LAMB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Henry was every morning fed
Last Line: Then lightly tripping, ran away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Elia
Variant Title(s): The Children And The Snake
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE COBRA CAPELLO, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful - yes! For her basilisk eyes
Last Line: She'd crumple it, too, like the innocent fan!
Subject(s): Animals; Cobras; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Snakes; Male-female Relations; Serpents; Vipers


THE COLUBRIAD, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Close by the threshold of a door nailed fast
Last Line: And taught him never to come there no more.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE CROTALUS, by BAILEY MILLARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: A coil of browns, a whirr
Last Line: Thy chastening rod?
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE DEER AND THE SNAKE, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The deer is humble, lovely as god made her
Subject(s): Deer; Snakes; Innocence; Serpents; Vipers


THE DOUBLE-HEADED SNAKE OF NEWBURY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far away in the twilight time
Last Line: "the amphisbaena is living still!"
Subject(s): Animals; Newbury, Massachusetts; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE ENVOY, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One day in that room, a small rat.
Last Line: Long-legged and thirsty, covered with foreign dust
Subject(s): Rats; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE FASTIDIOUS SERPENT, by HENRY JOHNSTONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a snake that dwelt in skye
Last Line: His breakfast, dinner and tea, oh.
Subject(s): Animals; Food & Eating; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE GIRL WHO BURIED SNAKES IN A JAR, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She came to see the bones
Subject(s): Snakes; Death - Animals; Serpents; Vipers


THE IMAGINED COPPERHEAD, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Without intending to hide,
Last Line: And his priesthood.
Subject(s): Snakes; Childhood Memories; Imagination; Serpents; Vipers; Fancy


THE KILLARNEY SNAKE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is the time come? Is it to-morrow yet?
Last Line: Is it not come? Is it to-morrow yet?
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Animals; Killarney (lakes), Ireland; Legends, Irish; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE KRAKEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Below the thunders of the upper deep
Last Line: In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sea Monsters; Supernatural; Sea Serpents


THE LOVE KISS OF DERMID AND GRAINNE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When by the twilit sea these twain were come
Last Line: Far in a phantom dell against a phantom deer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Kisses; Love Affairs; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Snakes; Swallows; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers


THE MASSASAUGA, by HAMLIN GARLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A cold coiled line of mottled lead
Last Line: Death waits and watches where he lies!
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE MERMAID, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet mermaid of the incomparable eyes
Last Line: Oh, no. By jove! There comes the white hippocampus.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Sea Monsters; Ocean; Sea Serpents


THE RING OF DEATH, by C. G. A. COLLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where the bourke comes down to the level plains and junctions with the wills
Last Line: When the ancient coorabulkas fought their last great fight of all.
Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Animals; Curses; Death; Drought; Magic; Snakes; Water; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers


THE SEALS IN PENOBSCOT BAY, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hadn't heard of the atom bomb
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents


THE SERPENT, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a serpent who had to sing
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE SILENT SNAKE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The birds go fluttering in the air
Last Line: The silent snakes goes creepy-creep!
Subject(s): Animals;snakes; Serpents;vipers


THE SILKEN SNAKE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For sport my julia threw a lace
Last Line: But though it scar'd, it did not bite.
Subject(s): Animals; Practical Jokes; Snakes; Pranks; Serpents; Vipers


THE SNAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A narrow fellow in the grass
Last Line: And zero at the bone.
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE SNAKE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A snake is the love of a thumb
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE SNAKE, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My love and I, the other day
Last Line: "to let it sting one -- don't you think so?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE SNAKE, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't ever make
Last Line: Might be awake
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE SNAKE, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a young snake glide
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE SNAKE IT WAS THAT DIED, by DEMODOCUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A viper stung a cappadocian's hide
Last Line: And poisoned by his blood that instant died.
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE SNAKES, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the snakes that rowdy saw
Last Line: But he thinks of the snakes, and—he lets it go by.
Subject(s): Animals; Drinks & Drinking; Hallucinations & Illusions; Snakes; Wine; Serpents; Vipers


THE VIPER, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet another great truth I record in my verse
Last Line: But after the second you die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE VIPER, by RUTH PITTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Barefoot I went and made no sound
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THOR'S FISHING, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heavy sky and heavy sea, / running cloud and wind-blown crests
Last Line: So was lost the midgard snake.
Subject(s): Animals; Fish & Fishing; Monsters; Mythology; Snakes; Anglers; Serpents; Vipers


TIDE TURNING, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through salt marsh, grassy channel where the shark's
Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Seashore; Tides; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents; Beach; Coast; Shore


TO THE SNAKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green snake, when I hung you around my neck
Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


WAR IS KIND: 11, by STEPHEN CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: On the desert / a silence from the moon's deepest valley
Last Line: Is in the dance of the whispering snakes.
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Snakes; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Serpents; Vipers


WATER SERPENTS (1), by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the lit silk of your naked body
Last Line: The dark sailor's body is found
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Water; Serpents; Vipers


WHISPERED LIES, by SARAH SPENCER ROE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Their lies / are snakes, which crawl
Last Line: Their sting.
Subject(s): Animals; False Accusations; Lies; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers