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Subject: ANTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BESTIARY: THE ANT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the ant is mighty, tho' small"
Last Line: "now, and on the last great day, / when we be in need"
Subject(s): Ants;insects; Bugs


ALPHABESTIARY: A, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A is for ant
Last Line: Practically %forever
Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Ants; Insects


ANOTHER SPRING, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Over the breadboard
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Nature; Spring


ANT, by ZOE BAILEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black is his color
Last Line: Towards some crack in an enormous ark
Subject(s): Animals; Ants; Insects


ANT, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ant has made himself illustrious
Last Line: If you were full of formic acid?
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


ANT AND THE THERAPIST, by GAIL MARTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We know you hate us. We startle
Last Line: And tunneling toward darkness
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Psychiatry


ANT HILL, by CYNTHIA ZARIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sand pyramid, size of a child, each september
Last Line: Turned violet as its shadow
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


ANT MANSION, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rubbing of the sleeping bag on my ear made me dream
Last Line: My father's labor who sees? It is in a pasture somewhere %not yet found by a walker
Variant Title(s): Finding An Old Ant Mansio
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


ANT WORLD: THE LEAF-CUTTERS, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cross-sectioned and cubed
Last Line: Leaf bit by leaf bit
Subject(s): Ants; Farm Life; Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Insects; Leaves; Nature; Trees


ANTS, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We tunnel through your noonday out to you
Last Line: Carry at least her parasites below
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


ANTS, by DAISY WRIGHT FIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I read of a man who was tied down
Last Line: By the little things.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Wright
Subject(s): Ants; Duty; Insects; Women; Bugs


ANTS, by KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stood in my mother's kitchen
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


ANTS AND OTHERS, by ADRIEN STOUTENBURG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Their spare, frantic sentry comes
Last Line: Of loaves and fishes everywhere
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


ANTS CRAWL, by ELEANOR SCHICK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: To them
Subject(s): Animals; Ants; Insects


BEASTS, SELS., by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ant-heaps furthest in
Last Line: And they get the better of deepest winters %in another deep
Subject(s): Animals; Ants; Insects


BIOMASS OF ANTS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of small homes, hard work, big women
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Nature


CIGARILLO, by CATE MARVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The visit of a body. Ants gathered sugar
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs


CIGARILLO, by CATE MARVIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The visit of a body. Ants gathered sugar
Last Line: Sweet. The ants took to their path on the counter
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


DEPARTMENTAL, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: An ant on the table cloth
Last Line: But how thoroughly departmental
Subject(s): Ants; Bureaucracy; Insects; Bugs


DEPARTMENTAL, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An ant on the table cloth
Last Line: But how thoroughly departmental
Subject(s): Ants; Bureaucracy; Insects


DISASTER, by MAY FAIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: A mossy knoll under a dogwood tree
Last Line: And plodding on, knew not their writhing pain.
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs


EMMET, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The emmet is an ant (archaic)
Last Line: Not so its ancestor, the emmet, %which perished crying 'zounds!' or 'demmit!'
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


FABLES: 1ST SER. 38. THE TURKEY AND THE ANT, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In other men we faults can spy
Last Line: Nor for a breakfast nations kill.
Subject(s): Ants; Food & Eating; Insects; Turkeys; Bugs


FABLES: 2ND SER. 4. THE ANT IN OFFICE, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You tell me that you apprehend
Last Line: As due, to publick use restor'd.
Subject(s): Ants; Corruption In Politics; Insects; Bugs


IMMANENT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The drone of war-plane neared,and dimmed away
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


KILLING THE ANTS, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flies are shooed from my house, spiders coaxed
Last Line: Acid drifts like an acrid perfume
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Judgments; Trials


KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out from jerusalem
Last Line: "than flatteries of the great."
Subject(s): Ants; Bible; Insects; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Bugs; Theology


PROBLEM WITH POETRY, by MARTIN ARNOLD    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In silence could only have been %because of greed
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Self


SOLOMON AND THE ANTS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the kings of fallen earth
Last Line: The strongest of the strong.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Bugs


THE AMBITIOUS ANT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ambitious ant would a-travelling go
Last Line: "how glad I am that I crossed the sea!"
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs


THE ANT, by AL-TULAITILI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Slender her flank
Last Line: Of a learned judge.
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs


THE ANT, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant
Last Line: Thinking to save all, we cast all away.
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs


THE ANT-HEAP, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High in the woodland, on the mountain-side
Last Line: The pity they deny.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C.
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs


THE ANT-LION, by THOMAS MILLER (1807-1874)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By digging a hole in the sand
Last Line: And both of us live by slaughter and strife.
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Wasps; Bugs; Yellow Jackets


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 SUPRFEME MOMENT, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As an ant is powerless
Subject(s): Ants; Death; Dead, The


THIS MORNING, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter without knocking, hard-working ant.
Subject(s): Ants; Longing


WATCHING ANTS, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: When one of them chances to meet another
Last Line: Their wagon train is filled
Subject(s): Ants; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Insects


WINTER POEM, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The quivering wings of the winter ant
Last Line: To breathe, to sense another, and to wait
Subject(s): Winter; Ants; Relationships