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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BUTCHERS Matches Found: 22 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BAGS OF MEAT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a fine bag of meat Last Line: When the butcher wins, and he's driven from the place. Subject(s): Auctions; Butchers; Cattle BUTCHER, by DOREN RICHARD ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: My thumb lay like a chop Last Line: With happy, round-bellied lives. %we make our choices. What's a thumb %count in the face of all that Subject(s): Butchers BUTCHER JOHN, by IRENE WAAGE Poem Text First Line: They call him butcher john, strange name for him Last Line: Before he married shrewish hannah bent. Subject(s): Butchers BUTCHER SHOP, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes walking late at night Subject(s): Butchers; World War Ii; Second World War BUTCHER SHOP, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes walking late at night Last Line: Scraped clean - a river dried to its bed %where I am fed, %where deep in the night I hear a voice Subject(s): Butchers; World War Ii BUTCHER'S WIFE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once, my braids swung heavy as ropes Last Line: Until the whole damn world reels toward winter drunk Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Butchers; Native Americans BUTCHERBOY, by TOM SCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: Late saturday afternoons in emeryville Subject(s): Butchers BUTCHERS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The butchers whipped the herring through the town Last Line: If he did, it happened later Subject(s): Butchers; Shame; Villages DOG ROAD WOMAN, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: They called you Last Line: We fashioned stars Subject(s): Butchers; Labor And Laborers; Women - Employment EASIER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: How peacefully he wipes the bloddy knife Last Line: Is easier than chopping up a man Subject(s): Blood; Butchers; Knives; Lambs; Murder MADGE WILDFIRE SINGS (6), FR. THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the bonny butcher lad Last Line: On friday that he slew Subject(s): Butchers ON A PIG'S HEAD, by CHARLES TOMLINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once it had gorged itself Subject(s): Butchers REUBEN BRIGHT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because he was a butcher and thereby Last Line: In with them, and tore down the slaughter-house. Subject(s): Butchers; Death; Love - Marital; Marriage; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SHOPPING FOR MEAT IN WINTER, by OSCAR WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: What lewd, naked and revolting shape is this? Last Line: I think of the cow's tail, how all summer long %it beats the shapes of harps into the air Subject(s): Butchers THE BUTCHER SHOP, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A disciplined institution Last Line: Before a block of wood, / a kind of altar Subject(s): Butchers; Social Commentaries THE HOG, THE SHEEP AND GOAT, CARRYING TO A FAIR, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who does not wish ever to judge aright Last Line: Must of the two be held most fortunate and wise.' Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Animals; Butchers THE RETIRED PORK-BUTCHER AND THE SPOOK, by G. E. FARROW Poem Text First Line: I may as well Last Line: A game of cards at night. Subject(s): Butchers; Ghosts; Retirement; Supernatural THE STOLEN SHEEP, by TOM FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Say, mate, it's a tidy long stretch since we parted near old lambin' flat Last Line: And—well that was the end of old tommy; so here's to his ashes I say! Subject(s): Accidents; Butchers; Murder; Poverty THIS LITTLE BOY GOES TO MARKET, by HELEN W. FOWLER Poem Text First Line: Patriot mothers, come and bear Last Line: Fill the future's bloody stew. Subject(s): Boys; Butchers; Mothers TO AN OLD PLATTER, by KAY PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: Old china keeps its secrets Last Line: Still carrying that antique well-fed air. Subject(s): Butchers TO RALPH LEYCESTER, ESQ., IN ANSWER TO A LETTER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear peter, this tells you as soon as it could Last Line: Of the best of good wishes for the whole of your flock. Subject(s): Animals; Butchers; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Hunting; Rabbits; Hunters; Hares WE HAD SEEN A PIG, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One man held the huge pig down Last Line: When we looked. Subject(s): Business; Butchers; Murder; Pigs; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Boars; Hogs |
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