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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ZOOS Matches Found: 64 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GRIZZLY IN THE ZOO, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A shame to your kin, you good-natured bear Last Line: Of the mighty paw that was meant to slay. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Wilderness; Zoos AN INVITATION TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I have found out a gig-gig-gift for my fuf-fuf-fair Last Line: To witness the bub-bub-beautiful pip-pip-pelican swallow the l-l-live fuf-fuf-fish! Subject(s): Speech Disorders;zoos; Stuttering;muteness AT THE ZOO, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It must be hard for you, porcupine Last Line: Instead of my tiny self. Subject(s): Animals; Children; Zoos; Childhood AT THE ZOO, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First I saw the white bear Last Line: Smelt! Subject(s): Zoos AT THE ZOO IN SPAIN, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bound to the earth Last Line: Their own rebirth Subject(s): Zoos AU JARDIN DE PLANTES, by JOHN WAIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gorilla lay on his back Last Line: With everything laid on, free of charge, %they cup their heads in prodigal idleness Subject(s): Zoos BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her fur new-licked, the whitetail fawn Last Line: As they depart, and curse them. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Beauty And The Beast; Cruelty; Zoos BESTIARY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Did he learn this on barefoot walks through wet fields Last Line: And petulant of her creatures Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Vegetarians; Zoos CAGES, by MARVIN SOLOMON Poem Source First Line: As cages, think of department stores and certain zoos Last Line: All of whom, before leaving, %the little boy would get to see, in time Subject(s): Zoos CALLING ACROSS WATER AT LION COUNTRY SAFARI, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across reptile pond a herd of zebra graze in open green Last Line: Across water, the only thing he believes is really between us. Subject(s): Cages; Mammals; Zoos 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 CREATURES WEARING CLOTHES, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: The zoo at regent's park Last Line: He settles back to draw %a creature wearing clothes! Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Zoos ELEGY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gnu up at the zoo Last Line: Not close their eyes by night or day - %no, not even in death Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Death - Animals; Gnus; Zoos EPIGRAM: 6. POLITICAL REFLEXION, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No bars are set too close, no mesh too fine Last Line: Though the cage fret kings. You may make free with it Variant Title(s): The Sparrow In The Zo Subject(s): Sparrows; Zoos FALSE COUNTRY OF THE ZOO, by JEAN GARRIGUE Poem Source First Line: We are large with pity, slow and awkward Last Line: Seems like a tear, is, is, %as our love and our pity are, are Subject(s): Zoos FEEDING TIME AT THE ROEDING ZOO, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long-legged mosquitoes feed on algae and transient blood Last Line: Flop and die with one eye in the hundred-degree sun Subject(s): Mosquitoes; Zoos FENCE, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Outside the locked enclosure of the wallabies Last Line: Raising the dead to an even twenty-six Subject(s): Animals; Wallabies; Zoos 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 HOOLIGAN ZOO, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angry and depressed I take my son to the zoo Last Line: He couldn't hear their yellow heads roaring Subject(s): Parents; Zoos IN REGENT'S PARK, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Dear friends of feather, fin and fur Last Line: A special dinner too. Subject(s): Animals; Gardens & Gardening; Regent's Park, London; Zoos IN THE SNAKE PARK, by WILLIAM PLOMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white-hot midday in the snake park Last Line: The girl who screamed had fallen in a faint Subject(s): Parks; Zoos IN THE ZOO; A TOUR WITH COMMENTS, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN Poem Source First Line: And these %these are scavenger birds Last Line: The kitchen of our pattering feet Subject(s): Metaphor; Zoos INTERSPECIES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was teaching a residency in cincinnati Subject(s): Loneliness; Alienation (social Psychology); Friendship; Zoos; Estrangement; Outcasts JAGUAR, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The apes yawn and adore their fleas in the sun Last Line: The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. %over the cage floor the horizons come Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Zoos LAST PASSENGER PIGEON IN THE CINCINNATI ZOO, by LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO Poem Source First Line: An annulment of a species is as keen Last Line: Case of an unfolding species unwinding, beautifully Subject(s): Cincinnati, Ohio; Cities; Zoos LION AND ALBERT, by MARRIOTT EDGAR Poem Source First Line: There's a famous seaside place called blackpool Last Line: What, waste all our lives raising children %to feed ruddy lions? Not me! Subject(s): Zoos ODE TO N. A. VIGORS, ESQ., by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So mr. V., - no vigors - I beg pardon Last Line: Go on as swimmingly as old noah's ark! Subject(s): Zoos ON A WALK, by JORGE J. RODRIGUEZ-FLORIDO Poem Source First Line: Today I go the the zoo Last Line: Toward the street Subject(s): Animals; Tourists; Travel; Zoos ON THE DEATH OF AN EMPEROR PENGUIN IN REGENT'S PARK, LONDON, by DAVID+(2) WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: A proletarian, unlikely bird, no monarch Last Line: And watch, neither suberb nor able, from below %a smashed world whirl away in stinging snow Subject(s): Penguins; Zoos ONE AND ONLY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Someone stole a darling snake Last Line: We don't know who. Subject(s): Animals; Crime And Criminals; Snakes; Zoos PETE AT THE ZOO, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if the elephant Last Line: Against the dark of night Subject(s): Elephants; Zoos PORTRAITES OF THE INDITCHENOUS BEESTES OF NEW OLLAND, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ye greate blacke deville Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Wilderness; Zoos PRISONER, by JOSEPH O'CONNOR Poem Text First Line: In a cage of iron and stone Last Line: To pelt with stones. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Prisons & Prisoners; Zoos SCORPIONS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How easy, lazy in this light-struck country Last Line: To gaze into the shadows in his shoes. %los Subject(s): Animals; Deserts; Food And Eating; Poisons And Poisoning; Zoos SHAME, by KU SANG Poem Source First Line: Ch'anggyongwon zoo. %I peep across the wire netting Last Line: Long since atrophied %in the city dwellers Subject(s): Zoos SNOW LEOPARDS AT THE DENVER ZOO, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are only a hundred or so Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Zoos; Snow Leopards SPECTATORS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We watched the monkeys in the cage Last Line: They turned and gravely laughed at us. Subject(s): Animals; April; Cages; Monkeys; Zoos THE ESCAPED GORILLA, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he walked out in the park that early evening Subject(s): Apes; Escapes; Zoos; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Fugitives THE HOOLIGAN ZOO, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angry and depressed I take my son to the zoo Subject(s): Parents; Zoos; Parenthood THE MENAGERIE, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god my brain is not inclined to cut Last Line: There may be hidden meaning in his grin. Subject(s): Animals; Circus; Zoos THE SARAJEVO ZOO, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Men had used up their hands, men had Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia; Zoos; Death - Animals THE ST. LOUIS ZOO, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High, yellow, coiled and weighted the branch like an odd piece of fruit Last Line: It knew it. Leaf, lichen, the least refinements, and the perfection Subject(s): Zoos THE SUNDAY QUESTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! Shut the gardens! Lock the latticed gate! Last Line: But what is your opinion, mrs. Grundy? Variant Title(s): The Open Question Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Wilderness; Zoos THE WOMAN AT THE WASHINGTON ZOO, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saris go by me from the embassies Subject(s): Identity; Zoos THE ZOO, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I scarcely think / I like the zoo / as much as other / people do Last Line: People do. Subject(s): Animals; Zoos THOUGHTS IN A ZOO, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They in their cruel traps, and we in ours, Subject(s): Zoos TO A CHIMPANZEE IN THE LONDON ZOO, by DURS GRUNBEIN Poem Source First Line: Were they like these, the eyes in which the fever first Last Line: Evil vanity, swallowed withone's features fixed Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Zoos TRAVERSE CITY ZOO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I saw a wolf tread a circle in his cage Last Line: Of dope. He grew smaller and sputtered into sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Prisons & Prisoners; Zoos; Convicts TREAD THE DARK: 51, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sink back upon the ground, expecting to die Subject(s): Animals; Children; Exhibitions; Zebras; Zoos; Childhood; World's Fairs; Expositions TREAD THE DARK: 51, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sink back upon the ground, expecting to die Last Line: And I will learn to love you as a zebra whom I did not love as a human being Subject(s): Animals; Children; Exhibitions; Zebras; Zoos TURTLES OF SANTA ROSA, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Haul their leathery, pock-marked backs Last Line: Might then remember me Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Reptiles; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Turtles; Zoos TWO BLOCKS FROM HOME THE LIONS MOAN, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Just now returned from hunting them Last Line: Nearby, eyes open in the palms of leaves Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Zoos WALKING IN THE ZOO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the stilton, sir, the cheese, the o.K. Thing to do" Last Line: "the horror and the agony, that sunday in the zoo" Subject(s): Animals;sabbath;walking;zoos; Sunday WAS AN ANT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Z! %pretty bright zinc! Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Zoos WATCHING GATORS AT RAY BOONE'S REPTILE FARM, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: While we stand behind the concrete railing Last Line: The answer to all the animal inside us. Subject(s): Alligators; Children - Lost; Zoos WOMAN AND LEOPARD, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although she was beautiful Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Leopards; Zoos WOMAN AT THE WASHINGTON ZOO, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saris go by me from the embassies Last Line: You see what I am: change me, change me! Subject(s): Identity; Zoos ZOO BATS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the central park zoo, just past the ants Last Line: To the night like a cup of water to the sea Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Zoos ZOO DOINGS, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the zoo do view the zebu Last Line: View what zebus and kudus do Subject(s): Animals; Zoos ZOO IN THE CITY, by SARA VAN ALSTYNE ALLEN Poem Source First Line: Enclosed the lacquered, coiling snake Subject(s): Zoos ZOO IN THE RAIN: THE PORCUPINE, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: A flip of a peacock's fan Last Line: Bristled with roughly motherly love Subject(s): Porcupines; Rain; Zoos ZOO IN THE RAIN: THE SNOW LEOPARD, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: Something bellowed. %no one manned the zoo's ticket window Last Line: Like a page of national geographic Subject(s): Leopards; Rain; Zoos ZOO LION, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He gets up from the couch under the closed window Subject(s): Zoos ZOOLOGY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh! Merry is the madrepore that sits beside the sea Last Line: "let tyndall, haeckel, bastian, go wrangle as they will" Subject(s): Animals;zoos |
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