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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TORTOISES Matches Found: 31 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 gainedalwaysby 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 |
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