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Subject: AESOP (620?-560? B.C)
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AESOP, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He sat among the woods; he heard
Last Line: In likenesses of beast and bird!
Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c); Thought; Thinking


AESOP AT PLAY, by GAIUS JULIUS PHAEDRUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As aesop was with boys at play
Last Line: The studies which they shall renew.
Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c)


EVIDENCE, by B. O. H.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of all the lines that volumes fill
Last Line: That every jack had several gills.
Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c)


MRS AESOP, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By christ, he could bore me for purgatory. He was small
Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c)


THE GROATSWORTH OF WIT: A CONCEITED FABLE OF THE OLD COMEDIAN AESOP, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An ant and a grasshopper, walking together on a
Last Line: Without remedy.
Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c); Ants; Fables; Grasshoppers; Insects; Allegories; Bugs


THE LARK'S NEST; A FABLE FROM ESOP, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trust only to thyself'; the maxim's sound
Last Line: Who manages affairs by deputation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c); Birds' Nests; Fables; Allegories