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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH            Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aunt jennifer's tigers prance across a screen
Subject(s): Animals; Aunts; Imagination; Love - Marital; Tapestries; Tigers; Women's Rights; Fancy; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Feminism


AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aunt jennifer's tigers prance across a screen
Last Line: Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid
Subject(s): Animals; Aunts; Imagination; Love - Marital; Tapestries; Tigers; Women's Rights


BEING AS I WAS, HOW COULD I HELP, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the noise that drew me first
Last Line: I would give it again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Animals; Forgiveness; Hunger; Tigers; Wolves; Clemency


BENGAL TIGER, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bengal tiger likes to eat
Last Line: Avoid the bengal tiger's glances
Subject(s): Animals; Tigers


GREEN NOSTALGIA; SOLILOQUY OF A TIGER IN A ZOO, by NGUYEN THU LE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I chew a bitter cud, lying
Last Line: O my terrible wilderness!
Subject(s): Animals; Freedom; Tigers; Zoos


IN THE OLD STONE AGE: A DREADED VISITOR, by JACK MELONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: At times, returning from the chase
Last Line: To stretch content upon the floor!
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Hunger; Hunting; Tigers; Hunters


IN THE OLD STONE AGE: CONFLICT 'TWIXT MAN AND BEAST, by JACK MELONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Often, before the foe was downed
Last Line: As bengal tiger ne'er has matched!
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Hunting; Tigers; Hunters


INDIA, by WALTER JAMES REDFERN TURNER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They hunt, the velvet tigers in the jungle
Last Line: Two pairs of eyes meet one another glowing-- %they hunt, the velvet tigers in the jungle
Subject(s): Animals; Tigers


LIMERICK, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a young lady of niger
Last Line: With the lady inside / and the smile on the face of the tiger
Subject(s): Animals;tigers


LIMERICK, by COSMO MONKHOUSE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a young lady of niger
Last Line: And a smile on the face of the tiger
Alternate Author Name(s): Monkhouse, William Cosmo
Variant Title(s): The Satisfied Tige
Subject(s): Animals; Tigers


OTHER TIGER, by JORGE LUIS BORGES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here
Last Line: Another tiger, the beast not found in verse
Subject(s): Animals; Books; Librarians And Libraries; Mythical Animals; Poetry And Poets; Tigers


SAVE THE TIGER!, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When lady jane refused to be %the wife of viscount fiddledee
Last Line: Poor dumb tiger, %save that buffalo - be good!
Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P.
Subject(s): Animals; Tigers


SELF, by DAN CHIASSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Found not founded. Attacking only
Last Line: Like the tiger, founded on owned ground
Subject(s): Animals; Tigers


THE ADVENTURE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To-day I killed a tiger near my shack
Last Line: With clotted blood.
Subject(s): Animals; Tigers; World War I; First World War


THE BENGAL TIGER, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bengal tiger likes to eat
Subject(s): Animals; Tigers


THE TIGER, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tiger, on the other hand, is kittenish and mild
Last Line: Will find a tiger will repay the trouble and expense.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Animals; Tigers


THE TIGER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the still jungle of the senses lay
Last Line: The wakened tiger will not sleep again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Animals; Fate; Passion; Tigers; Destiny


THE TIGER, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright / in the forests of the night
Last Line: Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Variant Title(s): The Beauty Of Terror;the Tyger
Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Creation; God; Mythology; Terror; Tigers


THE TIGRESS, by FLOYD DELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tigress, tigress, burning bright
Last Line: Why, you're just a kitten, after all!
Subject(s): Animals; Blake, William (1757-1827); Tigers


THE TIGRESS, by RUTH PITTER                        Poet's Biography
First Line: The raging and the ravenous
Subject(s): Animals; Tigers


TIGER, by JOAN E. CASS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the immensity of the jungle
Last Line: He crouches low to drink
Subject(s): Animals; Tigers


TIGER, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The paper tigers roar at noon
Last Line: I too am of that royal race %who do what we are born to do
Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D.
Subject(s): Animals; Tigers


TIGER!, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a tiger in our hall
Last Line: He's not the boss of me!
Subject(s): Animals; Children; Tigers; Childhood


TIGRESS, by RUTH PITTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The raging and the ravenous
Last Line: No beast so hapless as a man
Subject(s): Animals; Tigers


TYGER: 1., by BERNICE FRIESEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the national gallery of london
Last Line: Against the palm of your hand?
Subject(s): Animals; Tigers


WHITE TIGER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was beautiful as god
Last Line: Over immensities that will not return
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Tigers