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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` :THREE POEMS ON DEMAND: TURTLES GENERATE POEMS, by JORDAN DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Turtles; Writing & Writers; Tortoises


A JOURNEY WITH WOMEN, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Floating in turtle blood, going backward and forward
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


BABY TORTOISE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You know what it is to be born alone
Last Line: Invincible fore-runner.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


CLOSING TIME AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOO, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The keepers / walk among galapagos turtles
Last Line: In the san diego dusk.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Galapagos Islands; Turtles; Zoos; Tortoises


ELEGY FOR THE GIANT TORTOISES, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let others pray for the passenger pigeon
Last Line: Our holy and obsolete symbols
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


GIANT TORTOISE, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am related to stones
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


HALIEUTICA [HALIEUTICKS]: EELS AND TORTOISES, by OPPIAN OF CILICIA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange the formation of the eely race
Last Line: To the loathed duties of an hated bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oppian
Subject(s): Courtship; Eels; Fish & Fishing; Reproduction; Turtles; Mating; Tortoises


THE FIGHT WITH THE SNAPPING TURTLE; OR, THE AMERICAN ST. GEORGE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you heard of philip slingsby
Last Line: All in pennsylvanian bonds!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Clay, Henry (1777-1852); Fights; Turtles; Tyler, John (1790-1862); United States - Politics & Government; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852); Tortoises


THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once on a time a memorable race
Last Line: "the race is not gained—always—by the slow."
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Turtles; Victory; Hares; Tortoises


THE LITTLE TURTLE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a little turtle
Last Line: But he didn't catch me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


THE LORCA VARIATIONS (28) 'FOR TURTLES', by JEROME ROTHENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


THE PHOENIX AND THE TORTOISE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Webs of misery spread in the brain
Subject(s): Phoenix (mythical Bird); Turtles; Tortoises


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 38, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two turtles aboard an ox cart
Last Line: Acting kindly they got stung
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hospitality; Punishment; Turtles; Tortoises


THE POND, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snapping turtles in the pond eat bass, sunfish
Last Line: And the steel hook wrenched straight as a pin.
Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Turtles; Pools; Ponds; Tortoises


THE THEORETIC TURTLE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The theoretic turtle started out to see the toad
Last Line: "the easiest way, my friend,"" said he, ""is to walk around the pole."
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


THE TORTOISE IN ETERNITY, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within my house of patterned horn
Last Line: Square on my scornful back.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


THE TURTLE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


THE TURTLE, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The turtle's always been inclined
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


THE TURTLE (1), by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rain lifts the lake level, washing the reeds
Last Line: The turtle's head rises outnover the water
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


THE TURTLE (2), by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How shiny the turtle is, coming out
Last Line: Lying inland on the floor of the old sea
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


THE TURTLE AND SPARROW, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind an unfrequented glade
Last Line: And knaves and prudes are six times married.
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Fables; Grief; Sparrows; Turtles; Dead, The; Allegories; Sorrow; Sadness; Tortoises


THE TURTLE AND THE FLAMINGO, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lively young turtle lived down by the banks
Last Line: The green, but a very mock turtle!
Subject(s): Flamingos; Turtles; Tortoises


THE TURTLE SHRINE NEAR CHITTAGONG, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Humps of shell emerge from dark water
Last Line: Or say, this is water, that is land.
Subject(s): Reptiles; Turtles; Tortoises


TO A BOX TURTLE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Size of a small skull, and like a skull segmented
Last Line: But nature’s tumults pool to form a giant peace
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


TO MY TORTOISE CHRONOS, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou vague dumb crawler with the groping head
Last Line: Spurned earth for ever and its wingless things.
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


TO THE MAMMOTH-TORTOISE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Monster chelonian, you suggest
Last Line: And mend its ways ... At last!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


TORTOISE GALLANTRY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Making his advances
Last Line: We will go on to the end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


TORTOISE SHELL, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cross, the cross goes deeper in than we know
Last Line: This slow one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


TURTLE, by KAY RYAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who would be a turtle who could help it?
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


TURTLE, by VINCENT STARRETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Queer, tessellated, tardy snuff-box, you
Last Line: I have met turtles all along the way.
Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises


TURTLES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Orrick, poet-laureate of st. Louis
Last Line: Is it feet carry them?
Subject(s): New York City; Poetry & Poets; Turtles; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Tortoises