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Subject: TOADS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FABLE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it not enough, said the toad,
Last Line: Said the moth to the toad.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Fables; Moths; Toads; Allegories


ADMAN INTO TOAD, by FRANK POLITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What's a toad like
Subject(s): Toads


ADVICE TO A HORNED FRO, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Horned toad of cloven brown
Subject(s): Toads


AT THE GARDEN GATE, by DAVID MCCORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who so late %at the garden gate?
Last Line: Say emily, %kate, %and john
Subject(s): Friendship; Toads


DEATH OF A TOAD, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A toad the power mower caught
Last Line: To watch, across the castrate lawn, %the haggard daylight steer
Subject(s): Toads


GASCO, OR THE TOAD, by GUNTER WILHELM GRASS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In back of our town
Last Line: We can cook
Subject(s): Toads


HOUSTON TOAD, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: She comes out in rain, listens to insects hum
Last Line: Until she touches that sound
Subject(s): Endangered Species; Rare Animals; Toads


LIKE A FIST, THE TOAD, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Knocks on the dirt road %wanting in
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Toads


MISTER HOP-TOAD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Howdy, mister hop-toad! Glad to see you out!
Last Line: "howdy, mister hop-toad! How-dee-do!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Toads


ON A TOAD, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Its savage eyes, at whom do they glare?
Last Line: A hungry snake will never let you go free
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): Toads


ORGY WITH TOADS, by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flora and I know hardly anything
Subject(s): Toads


PISSING OF THE TOADS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Concerning the venomous urine of toads, conceptions
Last Line: In other parts, as the learned scalinger observed
Subject(s): Excrement; Pentastichs; Toads


PORTRAIT: HORNED TOAD, by ANNIE LAURIE SNORF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shy creature of the desert
Last Line: Small lump of dust.
Subject(s): Toads


POWER OF TOADS, by PATTIANN ROGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The oak toad and the red-spotted toad love their love
Last Line: Promise of good love beneath dark skies inside warm rains
Subject(s): Toads


SPADE-FOOT TOAD, by EVE GANSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The spade-foot toad lives underground
Last Line: And no rain came, that toad would croak!
Subject(s): Animals; Toads


SPECKLE-BLACK TOAD AND FRECKLE-GREEN FROG, by GEORGE DARLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Toads


SPRING SONG, by DONALD FINKEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: B'york! But it's lovely under the leaf
Last Line: Your foot is bruised against my head
Subject(s): Toads


STREAM BED, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the poplars
Subject(s): Streams; Toads


THE DEATH OF A TOAD, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A toad the power mower caught
Subject(s): Toads


THE POWER OF TOADS, by PATTIANN ROGERS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The oak toad and the red-spotted toad love their love
Subject(s): Toads


THE SONG OF THE GARDEN-TOAD, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down, down beneath the daisy beds
Last Line: The rose that told him so?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Toads


THE SONG OF THE TOAD, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you heard the blinking toad
Last Line: No bird could do it better.
Variant Title(s): Portia To Shylock
Subject(s): Toads


THE TOAD AND SPIDER; A DUEL, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a day when the dog-star
Last Line: Of his fair aid a monument.
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Toads; Bugs


THE TREE TOAD, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a jolly tree toad, upon a chestnut tree
Last Line: And I close my proposition with a q. E. D.
Subject(s): Toads


THIS IS TBE WAY TOADS TALK, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spot upon my back that none would see there
Subject(s): Toads


THOREAU AND THE TOADS, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the spring thaw, their voices ringing
Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Toads


THOREAU AND THE TOADS, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the spring thaw, their voices ringing
Last Line: And straighten and square-knot his rawhide laces
Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Toads


TOAD, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Close by the basement door-step
Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne
Subject(s): Toads


TOAD, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A song in a windless night
Last Line: Good night. That toad you heard is I
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Toads


TOAD, by EDGAR FAWCETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blue dusk, that birngs the dewy hours
Subject(s): Toads


TOAD, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trencherman of the moist places
Last Line: Into his fields as a welcome to you
Subject(s): Toads


TOAD, by GERTRUD KOLMAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bluish twilight sinks with dripping dews
Last Line: Come kill me! Though to you I'm but a pest: %I am the toad, and wear a precious jewel
Subject(s): Toads


TOADS, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should I let the toad work
Subject(s): Toads; Bourgeoisie; Toads; Middle Class


TOADS, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should I let the toad work
Last Line: I don't say, one bodies the other %one's spiritual truth; %but I do say it's hard to lose either, %w
Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Toads


TOADS REVISITED, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking around in the park
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Toads; Work; Workers


TOADS REVISITED, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking around in the park
Last Line: Give me your arm, old toad; %help me down cemetery road
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Toads


TREE-TOAD, by HILDA CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tree-toad is a small gray person
Last Line: I hope to hear you singing on the road of dreams!
Subject(s): Toads