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| Searching... Author: ATWOOD, MARGARET Matches Found: 56 Atwood, Margaret Poet's Biography 56 poems available by this author A HOLIDAY Poem Text First Line: My child in the smoke of the fire Last Line: And no farther Subject(s): Nature A WOMAN'S ISSUE Poem Text First Line: The woman in the spiked device Last Line: Who invented the word love? Subject(s): Women ASPARAGUS Poem Text First Line: This afternoon a man leans over Last Line: You're very lucky Subject(s): Asparagus; Love - Nature Of; Vegetables AT FIRST I WAS GIVEN Poem Text First Line: At first I was given centuries Last Line: Before you run out into the street and they shoot Subject(s): War; Life Change Events; Memor AT THE TOURIST CENTER IN BOSTON Poem Text First Line: There is my country under glass Subject(s): Canada; Canadians BACKDROP ADDRESSES COWBOY Poem Text First Line: Starspangled cowboy Subject(s): Cowboys BULL SONG Poem Text First Line: For me there was no audience Subject(s): Bullfights & Bullfighters CARRYING FOOD HOME IN WINTER Poem Text First Line: I walk uphill through the snow CORPSE SONG Poem Text First Line: I enter your night CRICKETS Poem Text First Line: Spetember. Wild aster. Fox grapes Last Line: Come back as our heartbeats Subject(s): Crickets CROW SONG Poem Text First Line: In the arid sun, over the field DAGUERREOTYPE TAKEN IN OLD AGE Poem Text First Line: I know I change Subject(s): Old Age DEATH OF A YOUNG SON BY DROWNING Poem Text First Line: He, who navigated with success Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Death - Babies DREAM: BLUEJAY OR ARCHEOPTERYX Poem Text First Line: Kneeling on rock DREAMS OF THE ANIMALS Poem Text First Line: Mostly the animals dream / of other animals Last Line: Dreams of sawdust Subject(s): Animals; Dreams ELEGY FOR THE GIANT TORTOISES Poem Text First Line: Let others pray for the passenger pigeon Last Line: Our holy and obsolete symbols Subject(s): Turtles; Tortoises FEBRUARY Poem Text First Line: Winter. Time to eat fat Subject(s): Winter; Cats; Food & Eating FLOWERS Poem Text First Line: Right now I am the flower girl Last Line: Hoping I could still save him Subject(s): Flowers FOR ARCHEOLOGISTS Poem Text First Line: Deep under, far back FOX/FIRE SONG Poem Text First Line: I don't enjoy it here FROM AN ITALIAN POSTCARD FACTORY Recitation by Author GAME AFTER SUPPER Poem Text First Line: This is before electricity Last Line: If we are lucky Subject(s): Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements HABITATION Poem Text First Line: Marriage is not / a house or even a tent Subject(s): Love HEART Poem Text First Line: Some people sell their blood. You sell your heart Last Line: Deep in your shirt and chest / shyly, heartless Subject(s): Soul HELEN OF TROY DOES COUNTER DANCING Poem Text First Line: The world is full of women Last Line: Touch me and you’ll burn Subject(s): Troy HESITATIONS OUTSIDE THE DOOR Poem Text First Line: I'm telling the wrong lies Subject(s): Loss IN THE SECULAR NIGHT Poem Text First Line: In the secular night you wander around Subject(s): Night; Bedtime IT IS DANGEROUS TO READ NEWSPAPERS Poem Text First Line: While I was building neat Last Line: Another village explodes Subject(s): Newspapers; War; Journalism; Journalists MARRYING THE HANGMAN Poem Text First Line: She has been condemned to death by hanging Last Line: They both kept their promises. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals MARRYING THE HANGMAN Poem Text First Line: She has been condemned to death by hanging. A man Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty MARSH LANGUAGES Poem Text First Line: The dark soft languages are being silenced Last Line: The one language that has eaten all the others. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE Poem Text First Line: In the burned house I am eating breakfast Subject(s): Breakfast OWL SONG Poem Text First Line: I am the heart of a murdered woman Subject(s): Owls; Death; Dead, The PROJECTED SLIDE OF AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER Poem Text First Line: Upon a wall a face RAT SONG Poem Text First Line: When you hear me singing Subject(s): Rats SIREN SONG Poem Text First Line: This is the one song everyone Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sirens (Mythology); Women's Rights; Iliad; Odyssey; Male-female Relations; Feminism SNAKE WOMAN Poem Text First Line: I was once the snake woman Last Line: Now I'd consider the snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SONG OF THE HEN'S HEAD Poem Text First Line: But you were serious SONG OF THE WORMS Poem Text First Line: We have been underground too long Subject(s): Worms SONGS OF THE TRANSFORMED: PIG SONG Poem Text First Line: This is what you changed me to Last Line: This is a hymn Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs SPELLING Poem Text First Line: My daughter plays on the floor Last Line: Your first word Subject(s): Daughters; Women; Language THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY Poem Text Subject(s): Animals; Animals THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: In that country the animals Subject(s): Animals THE CIRCLE GAME Poem Text First Line: The children on the lawn Subject(s): Games; Children; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Childhood THE LONELINESS OF THE MILITARY HISTORIAN Poem Text Subject(s): War THERE ARE HOSTILE NATIONS Poem Text First Line: In view of the fading animals Subject(s): Togetherness; Survival THEY EAT OUT Poem Text First Line: In restaurants we argue Variant Title(s): Nine Untitled Poems: 2 Subject(s): Restaurants; Immortality; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners; Cafes; Diners THEY EAT OUT Poem Text First Line: In restaurants we argue Variant Title(s): Nine Untitled Poems: 2 Subject(s): Restaurants; Cafes; Diners THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF ME Poem Text First Line: It was taken some time ago Subject(s): Drowning THREE DESK OBJECTS Poem Text First Line: What suns had to rise and set Subject(s): Machines VARIATION ON THE WORD SLEEP Poem Text First Line: I would like to watch you sleeping Subject(s): Love - Marital; Sleep; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love VERMILION FLYCATCHER, SAN PEDRO RIVER, ARIZONA Poem Text First Line: The river's been here, violent, right where we're standing Last Line: "only. I would like to be that unnoticed Subject(s): Rivers VULTURES Poem Text First Line: Hung there in the thermal / whiteout of noon Last Line: Carnage, could you do better? Subject(s): Birds WOMAN SKATING Poem Text First Line: A lake sunken among Last Line: Over all I place / a glass bell Subject(s): Skating & Skaters; Sports YOU BEGIN Poem Text Recitation by Author YOU FIT INTO ME Poem Text |
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