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Subject: SQUIRRELS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT CHRISTMAS ONLY, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A squirrel to some is a squirrel
Last Line: Was lambasted from here to the tyrol %by a churl of a squirl named earl
Subject(s): Squirrels


AT CHRISTMAS ONLY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whisky, frisky
Last Line: Snappity, crackity, %out it fell
Subject(s): Squirrels


AUTUMN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The color of stone when leaves are yellow
Subject(s): Autumn, Time; Squirrels


CIRCUS IN THE TREES, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to watch the gray squirrels leap
Last Line: Cascading down as sparks
Subject(s): Squirrels; Trees


FABLE: THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain and the squirrel / had a quarrel
Last Line: Neither can you crack a nut.'
Subject(s): Mountains; Religion; Squirrels; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Theology


GLAUCOMYS VOLANS, by MICHAEL A. SCHAFFNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: That night on the front porch, with drinks and cigarettes
Last Line: Then a dark star falling through gray unending sky
Subject(s): Night; Squirrels; Stars


GRAY SQUIRREL, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flighty as birds, fluid as fishes
Last Line: How could I catch him, how can I match him %except with a fast eye and my best wishes
Subject(s): Squirrels


GRAY SQUIRREL, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a small gray %coffee-pot
Last Line: The squirrel was not %one of those
Subject(s): Squirrels


GRAY SQUIRRELS, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were hundreds that in the hollow holes
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Squirrels


GROUND-SQUIRREL SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The squirrel in his shirt stands up there
Last Line: Slender, he stands up there; striped he stands up there
Subject(s): Squirrels


HOW MUCH A SQUIRREL, by LARRY EIGNER            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Squirrels


I REMEMBER GALILEO, by GERALD STERN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember galileo describing the mind
Subject(s): Galileo (1564-1642); Squirrels; Paper; Galileo Galilei


JANE WAS WITH ME, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: If jane were with me
Subject(s): Death – Animals; Squirrels


JOE, by DAVID MCCORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We feed the birds in winter
Subject(s): Squirrels


MAPLE, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gray squirrels, fall-fat, having
Last Line: Naked you wouldn't believe it survives
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Maple Trees; Squirrels; Winter


MASSAGE, by TARA BRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A baby squirrel dragged in by the cat
Last Line: Listening patiently for any small stirring
Subject(s): Peace; Squirrels


MR. SQUIRREL, by V. M. JULIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw a brown squirrel to-day in the wood
Subject(s): Squirrels


MY LITTLE NEIGHBOR, by MARY AUGUSTA MASON    Poem Text                    
First Line: My little neighbor's table's set
Last Line: And chatters wondrous things to me.
Subject(s): Squirrels


NEW RULE, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A new year's white morning of hard new ice
Last Line: So / clear
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Squirrels


ON A SQUIRREL CROSSING THE ROAD IN AUTUMN, IN NEW ENGLAND, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is what he does not know
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Squirrels


ON A SQUIRREL CROSSING THE ROAD IN AUTUMN, IN NEW ENGLAND, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is what he does not know
Last Line: It is what man does not know of god %composes the visible poem of the world. %- just missed him!
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Squirrels


SACRIFICE OF A RED SQUIRREL, by JOSEPH LANGLAND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leaping from oak to oak, tangled-up in the woods
Last Line: The fixed ideas are coming to hunt you down
Subject(s): Squirrels


SAUCER HOLDS A CUP, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The smallest citizen that flies %is heartier than we
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1374; Poem: 140
Subject(s): Squirrels


SEQUOIA, by CHARLOTTE KELLOGG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Could I but reach this hand
Last Line: Would it appear to you!
Subject(s): Hands; Squirrels


SQUIRREL, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The squirrel is happy, the squirrel is gay
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Squirrels


SQUIRREL, by ALICE R. FRIMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here fame lasted a week, the running
Last Line: The way gears mesh and lock, the way a zipper closes
Subject(s): Fame; Squirrels; Women


SQUIRREL, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pretty red squirrel lives up in a tree
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Squirrels


SQUIRREL, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is the difference / between the creature
Last Line: Without a door.
Subject(s): Cages; Squirrels


SQUIRREL, by VINCENT STARRETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was so shy when I first wooed his glance
Last Line: And by what huntsman's weapon shall I die?
Subject(s): Squirrels


SQUIRRELS MATING, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In fits and starts around
Last Line: Their chase in fits and starts
Subject(s): Reproduction; Squirrels; Mating


SQUIRRELS MATING, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In fits and starts around
Last Line: Their chase in fits and starts
Subject(s): Reproduction; Squirrels


THE CIRCUS IN THE TREES, by ANDREW HUDGINS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to watch the gray squirrels leap
Subject(s): Squirrels; Trees


THE CURLIEST THING, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The squirrel is the curliest thing
Last Line: Out in the woods at play!
Subject(s): Squirrels


THE FLYING SQUIRREL, by MARY E. BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the woodland creatures
Last Line: Because you like it so.
Subject(s): Flying Squirrels


THE FLYING SQUIRREL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the chimney's treacherous way
Last Line: Under blue heavens, glad, and free.
Subject(s): Squirrels


THE GROUND SQUIRREL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bless us, and save us! What's here
Last Line: Or in less than no time, how we'd rue it!
Subject(s): Perpetual Motion; Squirrels


THE IMPERFECT PARADISE, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Which season is the loveliest of all?
Subject(s): Seasons; Gardens & Gardening; Squirrels; Nature


THE SQUIRREL, by FRANCES STACY KEELY    Poem Text                    
First Line: As quick as fire, as light as flame
Last Line: Soul wrong side out a-dance.
Subject(s): Squirrels; Wellesley College


THE SQUIRREL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who combs you, little squirrel
Last Line: To get the stomach-ache?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Squirrels


THE SQUIRREL'S WIGWAM, by CLARA DOTY BATES    Poem Full Text                    
First Line: They laid it low
Subject(s): Squirrels; Corn


TO A CITY-PARK SQUIRREL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear little exile from woodlands dear
Last Line: And bathe yourself in the woods again!
Subject(s): Squirrels


TO A SQUIRREL AT KYLE-NA-NO, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come play with me
Last Line: And let you go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Squirrels


TWO SQUIRRELS FIGHT, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: While chipmunks continue feeding
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Fights; Nature; Squirrels


WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apple blossom and
Last Line: And the late wet snow of spring
Subject(s): Seasons; Snow; Spring; Squirrels