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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: UNCLES Matches Found: 51 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHRISTMAS-TIME JINGLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dears, do you know, one short Last Line: And lit his old pipe with the end of his nose. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Santa Claus; Uncles; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint AFTER SUNDAY WE UNCLES SNOOZE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Banana-stuffed, the ape behind the brain Last Line: What shall the sleeps of heaven dream but time? Subject(s): Apes; Uncles; Food ^ Eating; Sleep ALEC, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At niney-seven my uncle found god heavy Last Line: And gilded an unfinished god for its vault Subject(s): Old Age; Uncles ANONYMITY, by AUGUSTINE PORRAS Poem Source First Line: I sat next to my uncle who still had the gift Last Line: He tells me, it is what we struggle for all our life Subject(s): Flies; Uncles AS MY UNCLE UST TO SAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've thought a power on men and Last Line: As my uncle ust to say. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Uncles; Work; Workers ASYLUM, by CIARAN CARSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The first indication was this repeated tic, the latch jigging and clicking Last Line: The acrid spoor of something that was human Subject(s): Uncles BRIDGE, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: The living Last Line: And deal Subject(s): Bridge (card Game); Brothers; Death; Marriage; Memory; Uncles BUSINESS OF AN UNCLE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the business of an uncle, which I've frequently expressed Last Line: But an uncle's job is different. He's another sort %of man %and the business of an uncle is to spoil Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Uncles CARD SHARKS, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: They all sat around Last Line: If I deal the next hand?' Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Reunions; Uncles DIRE WARNINGS: FROM UNCLE BOB: THEOLOGIAN, by ELAINE HATFIELD Poem Source First Line: Don't get pregnant or we'll kill you Last Line: Don't tell family secrets Subject(s): Advice; Uncles DIRE WARNINGS: FROM UNCLE RODNEY: URBAN WARRIOR, by ELAINE HATFIELD Poem Source First Line: Never get a tattoo. It makes it easier for the police Last Line: To identify you Subject(s): Advice; Uncles DIRE WARNINGS: UNCLE LIAM: ON ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, by ELAINE HATFIELD Poem Source First Line: Don't sit too close to the tv. You'll go blind Last Line: Don't eat raw bread dough. You'll get worms Subject(s): Medicine; Uncles EF UNCLE REMUS PLEASE TER 'SCUSEN ME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dey wunce wuz er time which I Last Line: He'd des a-kilt off ev'y dawg dat's chasin' him dis minute! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Uncles ELEGY: 1. AS I FIND MYSELF REMEMBERING, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But because he bought me my first puppy (a brownsilk Last Line: And I am ashamed to remember how he could laugh once Subject(s): Uncles ELEGY: 1. AS I HEAR THE FAMILY THINKING, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the body of my good gray practical dead Last Line: But a family. And one that knows what to do Subject(s): Funerals; Uncles FOR MOHAMMED ON THE MOUNTAIN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uncle mohammed, you mystery, you distant secretive face Subject(s): Uncles; Family Life; Relatives GOLDIE GOODWIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My old uncle sidney he says it's a sign Last Line: "good's 'bout 'leventy-hunnerd times better than gold!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Good; Uncles; Childhood GUESTS, by HARRY HUMES Poem Source First Line: My mother raises her eyes to heaven Last Line: Instead of stirring things up Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Mothers; Religion; Uncles HIS PA'S ROMANCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All 'at I ever want to be Last Line: "I laugh' an' yell', ""hooray-hooraw!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Parents; Uncles; Parenthood INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF MY UNCLE ARLY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my aged uncle arly! / sitting on a heap of barley Last Line: (but his shoes were far too tight.) Subject(s): Nonsense; Uncles KINSHIP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great-uncle wilhelm, mennonite, patriarch Last Line: Curse them but don't die. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Family Life; Food & Eating; Uncles; Relatives LAST OF MY CHINESE UNCLES ENTERS THE GATES OF HEAVEN, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And my mother, unable to weep, grieves for the dead Last Line: Weep, my hands shout. %weep and live Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Mothers; Mourning; Uncles LENNIE SWENSON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 6:00 in the super's smell of pine sol Last Line: Lay still on the white tile, his pockets empty. Subject(s): Memory; Murder; Uncles LISPING IN NUMBERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We' got a' uncle writes poetry Last Line: "it's a purty good little poetry-piece!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Numbers; Poetry & Poets; Speech Disorders; Uncles; Stuttering; Muteness MAGICIAN, by GARY MIRANDA Poem Source First Line: I remember you at the bathroom mirror Last Line: It is a trick %anyone can learn Subject(s): Uncles MORAL: FRANKLIN HYDE, WHO CAROUSED IN THE DIRT AND WAS CORRECTED BY HIS UNCLE , by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From franklin hyde's adventure learn Last Line: May always play with sand Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Children; Play; Uncles MY FAVORITE UNCLE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Uncle gary was down on liquor Last Line: If there's anything I do despise, %it's nastiness.' Subject(s): Uncles MY UNCLE THE LEVITATOR, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: As a small child I would accompany my uncle the levitator Last Line: And I still dream of him levitating Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Uncles NO PILIKIA; OR, PIECE OF CAKE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Hele mai, have one beer Last Line: Eh, finish your beer, %-I no like no pilikia Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Uncles ON THE LAMENTED DEATH OF MY DEAR UNCLE, MR. RADCLIFF STANHOPE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such is the unsteady state of human things Last Line: It knows I truly weep these obsequies. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Uncles POTSO, MY WINE-DARK UNCLE, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I incarcerate you behind Last Line: An empty mustard jar Subject(s): Family Life; Uncles PROVENANCE, by RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: My father's paintings in my uncle's house Last Line: My father's paintings in my uncle's house Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Paintings And Painters; Uncles RED BLUES, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music. Then, more music. Does it matter what kind? Let's say it is bagpipes Last Line: It;s just me and my blues Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Dancing & Dancers; Native Americans; Uncles SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE DOG, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night before my uncle carter got shot Last Line: He would have made a perfect suburban mayor - %or maybe, manager for some liquor chain Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Uncles THE BABES IN THE WOOD; OR, THE NORFOLK TRAGEDY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we were all little and good Last Line: (of fat catalogues) heap'd up by robins! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Betrayal; Inheritance And Sucession; Uncles THE GOOD, OLD-FASHIONED PEOPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we hear uncle sidney Last Line: At uncle used to know! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Memory; Past; Story-telling; Uncles THE LAST UNCLE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last uncle is pushing off Subject(s): Uncles; Death; Dead, The THE SQUIRT-GUN UNCLE MAKED ME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uncle sidney, when he was here Last Line: An' it 'ud ist squirt an' squirt! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Uncles UNCLE, by MAX GARLAND Poem Source First Line: You knew better than this. You could have become Last Line: Then you hold your brother, %then you kiss his wife Subject(s): Uncles UNCLE, by BARRY SEILER Poem Source First Line: I'm older than you will ever be Last Line: Mocking us in their austere cages Subject(s): Aging; Jews; Uncles UNCLE AN' AUNT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy uncle us'd to be Last Line: In leafy boughs a-swaÿèn. Subject(s): Aunts; Farm Life; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Summer; Uncles; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight UNCLE ED LACKED A FINGER, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: How odd I thought it, as a boy Last Line: Still feeling there the tingle of a hot %stove four inches off Subject(s): Old Age; Uncles UNCLE HESS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wryest of uncles, and most remote, sam hess Last Line: As though there were no questions and no end Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Aging; Uncles UNCLE IKE'S BIRTHDAY, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well uncle ike! This beats me Last Line: "tank you sah; I must go." Subject(s): African Americans; Birthdays; Uncles; Negroes; American Blacks UNCLE JIMMY, by ANDREW L. COHEN Poem Source First Line: When I was nine, my mother took me to boston so Last Line: This tuft of hair - uncle jimmy has a wonderful view %of the common Subject(s): Boston; Children; Memory; Uncles UNCLE KRISJAN, by EDDY L. PINAS Poem Source First Line: Beside the horse Last Line: Only sadness %and I crept away Subject(s): Gambling; Uncles UNCLE OUT O' DEBT AN' OUT O' DANGER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ees; uncle had thik small hwomestead Last Line: Vor the vu'st that do meddle wi' me or my meäre.' Subject(s): Animals; Debt; Farm Life; Horses; Uncles; Agriculture; Farmers UNCLE SIMON AND UNCLE JIM, by CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Uncle simon he Last Line: And squatted down by he. Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Artemus; Brown, Charles Farrar Subject(s): Nonsense; Uncles UNCLE WILLIAM'S PICTURE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uncle william, last july Last Line: Smile, and wipe my eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; July; Uncles; Dead, The; Relatives UNCLE WILLIS, by NIKKI GRIMES Poem Source First Line: Aunt anna calls herself Last Line: He plans on breaking Subject(s): African Americans; Love; Uncles VISITING AUNT AGGIE AND UNCLE LEW'S, by CRAIG PAULENICH Poem Source First Line: I cannot recall the whole house Last Line: Ascension into my own bed Subject(s): Aunts; Card Games; Children; Uncles |
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