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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SNAILS Matches Found: 45 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SNAIL'S DERBY, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in this tuscan garden, noon's huge ball Last Line: Wait but death's night; and, lo, the great ball lowers. Subject(s): Racing; Snails CONSIDERING THE SNAIL, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snail pushes through a green Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Snails CONSIDERING THE SNAIL, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snail pushes through a green Last Line: To that deliberate progress Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Snails CREEPER, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the snail who on his back Last Line: Be my own immensity? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Snails CROWS WHO TRY TO BE CORMORANTS DROWN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snails; peaches; bishop, elizabeth (1911-1979); Last Line: Seeds inside a tangled nest of membrane, skin Subject(s): Snails; Peaches; Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979) DOMICILES, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: At the 310 bistro, we order snails and chew them slow. My father and I with Last Line: Lips shamelessly buttery, watches a blonde at the next table wiggle out of her coat Subject(s): Family Life; Food And Eating; Restaurants; Snails FABLES: 1ST SER. 24. THE BUTTERFLY AND THE SNAIL, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All upstarts, insolent in place Last Line: Shall prove of caterpillar breed. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Snails; Bugs FOR A FIVE-YEAR-OLD, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snail is climbing up the window-sill Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; New Year; Snails FOR A FIVE-YEAR-OLD, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snail is climbing up the window-sill Last Line: But that is how things are: I am your mother, %and we are kind to snails Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; New Year; Snails GETTING TO KNOW, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The man who lives in a firm shell Last Line: Gets to know the snail well Subject(s): Shells; Snails I HAVE HORNS, BUT AM NOT BEAST, by GORDON WARDMAN Poem Source Last Line: When I am gone Subject(s): Riddles; Snails L'ESCARGOT D'OR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O tavern of the golden snail! Last Line: O tavern of the golden snail! Subject(s): Gold; Paris, France; Snails LITTLE SNAIL, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a little snail / come down the garden walk Last Line: I saw that it was his umbrella! Subject(s): Snails MOONSNAILS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The size, you said, of silver dollars Last Line: Its artless slice of life. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Hallucinations And Illusions; Night; Snails; Bedtime NO SOFTIE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Snail in the light, worm in bed Last Line: But you're no soft mollusc,' she said Subject(s): Beds; Relationships; Snails; Worms NURSERY SNAIL, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: The garden snail, %moist in its bed Last Line: Capture-soft %hand of you Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Nature; Snails POOR SNAIL, by J. M. WESTRUP Poem Source First Line: The snail says, 'alas!' Subject(s): Snails RECLUSE, by SUSAN VARON Poem Source First Line: The snail draws into itself all Last Line: It dreams the same dreams as %beautiful women everywhere Subject(s): Snails REMONSTRANCE WITH THE SNAILS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ye little snails Last Line: "you'll think of my peas and your thievish tricks, / with tears of slime, when crossing the styx" Subject(s): Mollusks;snails SNAIL, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snail upon the wall Last Line: It's all I've got. Subject(s): Animals; Snails SNAIL, by ELISABETH EYBERS Poem Source First Line: My softness heaves itss spiralled canopy Last Line: A living thirst by day and night renewed, %and know, except slow death, no certain cure Subject(s): Snails SNAIL, by GIUSEPPE GIUSTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a toast to the snail Last Line: An example to all of us Subject(s): Nature; Snails SNAIL, by HO XUAN HUONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Father and mother joined to breed a snail Last Line: Don't wiggle, please your finger in my hole Subject(s): Snails SNAIL, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ess enn a eye ell Last Line: Snail / evolution Subject(s): Snails; Evolution SNAIL, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little snail Last Line: Drinking %the dewdrop's %mystery Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Snails SNAIL, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snail doesn't know where he's going Last Line: At two or three inches a day Subject(s): Snails SNAIL, by JAMES REEVES Poem Source First Line: At sunset, when the night-dews fall Last Line: She travels on as best she can %like a toppling caravan Subject(s): Animals; Snails SNAIL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snail in his museum Last Line: They swallow the rest Subject(s): Snails; Food & Eating; Theology SNAIL POEM, by PETER ORLOVSKY Poem Source First Line: Make my grave shape of heart so like a flower be free aired & handsome felt Last Line: So my toe can curl & become a snail & go curiousely on its way Subject(s): Snails SNAIL'S DREAM, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A snail who had a way, it seems Subject(s): Snails SNAIL'S LAMENT, by ALBERT KALIMBAKATHA Poem Source First Line: Crumbled I die Last Line: Under man's foot Subject(s): Snails SNAILS, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: In early autumn %when the brief age of snails Last Line: Where death has his hut Subject(s): Animals; Snails THE HOUSEKEEPER, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The frugal snail, with forecast of repose Last Line: Knock when you will, -- he's sure to be at home. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Mollusks; Snails THE QUEST OF THE PURPLE-RINGED, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt the chill of the meadow underfoot, Last Line: For summer was done Subject(s): Snails THE SNAIL, by ANTOINE VINCENT ARNAULT Poem Text First Line: Without or child or friend or kin Last Line: And here the story of the snail. Subject(s): Snails THE SNAIL, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To grass, or leaf, or fruit, or wall Last Line: Its master. Subject(s): Snails THE SNAIL, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snail doesn't know where he's going Subject(s): Snails THE SNAIL (1), by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wise emblem of our politic [politick] world Last Line: Upward, and rarefy the air. Variant Title(s): The Snayl Subject(s): Snails THE SNAIL (2), by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The centaur, siren, I forgo Last Line: He wanders with his country, too. Subject(s): Snails THE SNAIL'S LESSON, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep into the midst of a great, dark, wood Last Line: "in the strong defense of jesus, your lord." Subject(s): Snails THE SNAIL'S PACE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the snake to the snail: 'how absurdly you crawl!' Last Line: "can any one beat me in traversing space?" Subject(s): Snails; Travel; Journeys; Trips THEFT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Shy morning light, a snail's track Last Line: Is silver stolen from the bank of night Subject(s): Home; Morning; Snails TO A SNAIL, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If 'compression is the first grace of style' Last Line: In the curious phenomenon of your occipital horn. Subject(s): Snails UPON THE SNAIL, by JOHN BUNYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She goes but softly, but she goeth sure Last Line: The prize they do aim at they do procure. Subject(s): Snails WEEVILS, DADDY LONGLEGS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: So many strange things under rocks Last Line: That look a lot like snail shells, %burning jellyfish, scraps of old yarn Subject(s): Jellyfish; Snails |
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