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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CATTLE Matches Found: 71 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COWBOY TOAST, by JAMES BARTON ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the passing cowboy, the plowman's pioneer Last Line: With cattle, cattle, cattle, and sage and sand and sun. Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States A DROUGHT IDYLL, by GEORGE ESSEX EVANS Poem Text First Line: It was the middle of the drought; the ground was hot and bare Last Line: "my word!"" he said, ""it's up to me to feed on this meself!" Subject(s): Cattle; Drinks & Drinking; Drought; Story-telling; Wine A DROVER, by PADRAIC COLUM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To meath of the pastures Last Line: Harsh with salt of the sea. Subject(s): Cattle A MOUNTAIN STATION, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bought a run a while ago Last Line: For sale! A mountain station.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cattle; Mountains; Rivers; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ACCIDENT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood in a green stand of corn Last Line: Of the dying animals strewn out behind them. Subject(s): Accidents; Cattle; Corn; Fathers & Daughters; Railroads; Railways; Trains ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS, REMBRANDT, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: They entered slowly like birds wanting bread Last Line: The shadow on her breast is only of her hand Subject(s): Barns; Cattle; Mothers; Shepherds And Shepherdesses AN EVENING IN DANDALOO, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was while we held our races Last Line: Wade in, dandaloo!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Horses; Love; Night; Racing; Bedtime ANDY'S GONE WITH CATTLE, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our andy's gone with cattle now Last Line: God grant 'twill bring us andy. Subject(s): Cattle; Drovers APRIL IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ver purpureum horace loved Last Line: Up here at jim mcnally's. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Peace; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers 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 BARRY'S CALF, by JASON [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: When barry went upon the land Last Line: Was found to have a fertile vealer Alternate Author Name(s): Jason Subject(s): Cattle;curiosities & Wonders;pregnancy;wealth; Riches;fortunes BIRTH OF RAINBOW, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning blue vast clarity of march sky Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Cattle BOVINITY, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The steer has found, among the mud Last Line: Over the vast brown and white body of the earth Subject(s): Cattle BULLS OF SPEEWAH, by R. C. PEARCE Poem Text First Line: This talk of wild bulls of the dawson scrubs, says old joe, leaves me cold Last Line: The wild bulls of the speewah scrubs would muster up the men. Alternate Author Name(s): Bloodwood, Bob Subject(s): Cattle CATTLE, by ? BANKO Poem Source First Line: How cool the cattle seem Last Line: Knee-deep within the stream Subject(s): Animals; Cattle CATTLE, by DONALD GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: The cattle run leap kick up their heels Subject(s): Cattle; Nicaragua CATTLE, by PETER SKRZYNECKI Poem Source First Line: With their boxing-glove muzzles Last Line: That man will decipher %as an omen of his final hunger Subject(s): Cattle CATTLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How cool the cattle seem! Last Line: They love to swish their tails and stand %knee-deep within the stream Subject(s): Cattle CATTLE COUNTRY, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: The wind blew fever-hot across the plain Last Line: An empty trough ... The windmill's lying squeak! Subject(s): Cattle CATTLE FROM ETHIOPIA, by YAHYA FREDERICKSON Poem Source First Line: Relentless as minutes Last Line: Bury everything they hear Subject(s): Cattle; Ethiopia CATTLE RUSH ON A NIGHT CAMP, by CHARLES MACALISTER Poem Text First Line: Look out on your left,' said mckenzie, 'the cattle are off like a streak! Last Line: It was plain that the cattle conceded we had beaten them bad in the rush. Subject(s): Cattle; Drovers CATTLE SHOW, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I shall go among red faces and virile voices Last Line: Whose laughter plays like summer lightning there. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Cattle CLEANING OUT THE SULLER IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time to clean the suller out Last Line: "it's pretty clean down suller." Subject(s): Cattle; Fields; Spring; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CUTTING CORN IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer 'moves right up the line' Last Line: "and ""set,"" with father, ""'round the hill." Subject(s): Cattle; Corn; Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers DEER AMONG CATTLE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here and there in the searing beam Last Line: As one of their own who shall rise Subject(s): Cattle; Deer FIELDS BEYOND ROSEWELL, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Heat rises from the wide resplendent fields Last Line: Unstinting fields. We pick them anyhow Subject(s): Cattle; Europe; Fields; Harvest; Saint Kilda (scotland) FIRST BIRTH, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had not been there before where the vagina opens Last Line: Wobbling to his feet, the dumb bull, copernicus Subject(s): Birth; Cattle; Farm Life FROM THE GULF, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Store cattle from nelanjie! The mob goes feeding past Last Line: What's ours to fare, by god they'll share! For we've been droving too! Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Cattle; Drovers; Travel; Journeys; Trips GEO-BESTIARY: 15, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Concha is perhaps seven. No one knows this cow dog's age for sure but Last Line: Future, which by nature she ignores, so much better to me than none. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Cattle GOD OF THE OPEN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of the open, though I am so simple Last Line: Help me see you in the god of the street. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes HAWSE WORK, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stop! There's the wild bunch to right of the trail Last Line: Give me a day on the hawse work! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HOMESTEAD CLAIM NO. 2003, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I was just another cattle rustler, hell Last Line: Is finally tossed. %we're all driven %to the railhead for shipment Subject(s): Cattle; Lynching HORSE-BELLS, by D. G. G. Poem Text First Line: I love to lie and listen to the horse bells' merry sound Last Line: Tinkle! Tonkle! Tankle! Tong! Subject(s): Animals; Bells; Cattle; Horses JERSEY CATTLE, by RALPH NIXON CURREY Poem Source First Line: In rosy-fingered dawn they go Last Line: With a sound like heavy rain Subject(s): Cattle LINES ON THE SUMMER OF THE CATTLE PLAGUE: 1865, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer long, and bright, and glowing Last Line: Lord, remove thy chast'ning hand! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cattle; Death - Animals; Nature; Plague; Summer MENDING BRUSH FENCE IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the spring the cattle moo Last Line: Of that old fence. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers ON A CATTLE TRACK, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the strength of dry thunder splits hill-rocks asunder Last Line: For others who struggle, yet fail. Subject(s): Cattle ON THE DRIVE, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, days whoop by with swingin' lope Last Line: And leave us rest and water. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Horseback Riding QUIET-EYED CATTLE, by LESLIE NORRIS Poem Source Subject(s): Cattle; Christmas RESIDUE, by ANTHONY MCNEILL Poem Source First Line: The wind is crisp, and carries Subject(s): Cattle; Egrets RIO GRANDE VALLEY, by ALBERT EDMUND TROMBLY Poem Text First Line: There's an empty grave in the town of hidalgo Last Line: "who just awoke: ""any cows to sell?" Subject(s): Cattle; Rio Grande River; Villa, Francisco (pancho) (1878-1923) SALT, by A. S. ALLISON Poem Text First Line: I crossed the bogong plains that night on the box of a cobb and co. Last Line: But only I and the horses heard jim's cry from the depths below. Subject(s): Cattle; Salt; Story-telling; Trucks & Trucking; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight SEARCHERS, by ANNABEL THOMAS Poem Source First Line: From conner's ridge high above the foggy bottom Last Line: My need to ask him why Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Fields SEASON OF OMENS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poet's Biography First Line: When [the] calabashes held petrol and men Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Hunting; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Hunters SEASON OF OMENS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When [the] calabashes held petrol and men Last Line: And all around was the blood of hounds Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Hunting; Shepherds And Shepherdesses SONG OF THE CATTLE TRAIL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The dust hangs thick upon the trail Subject(s): Cattle;cowboys;ranch Life;roads;west (u.s.); Paths;trails;southwest;pacific States SONG OF THE CATTLE-HUNTERS, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the morning light beams on the fern-matted streams Last Line: Will die with the echoes away! Subject(s): Cattle THAT TEXAS CATTLE MAN, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rode the tawny texan hills Last Line: "she's dead this twenty year." Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Cattle; Love; Texas THE 'TRUE VERMONTER', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said the true vermonter's gait Last Line: Is thunderation on a guess. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Fields; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE BIG WHITE BULLOCK, by T. RANKEN Poem Text First Line: Under a guidin' providence Last Line: To certify his tale! Subject(s): Cattle; Story-telling THE CATTLE COUNTRY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the dusk-enfolded prairie Last Line: Holds it in his hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Cattle; Prairies; Plains THE CATTLE ROUND-UP, by H. D. C. MCLACLACHLAN Poem Text First Line: Once more are we met for a season of pleasure Last Line: When we danced the day in at the cattlemen's ball. Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States THE CATTLE TRAIN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They drive the helpless cattle in Last Line: At forty miles an hour. Subject(s): Cattle; Railroads; Railways; Trains THE CATTLE TRAIN; PENMAENMAWR, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All light or transient gloom - no hint of storm Last Line: And hills of blooming heather, to their doom. Subject(s): Cattle THE COUNTRY LOVERS; OR, ISAAC AND MARGET GOING TO TOWN, by GEORGE SMITH Poem Text First Line: Come! Marget, come! - the team is at the gate! Last Line: They'll meet us ere we leave the narrow way. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Love; Agriculture; Farmers THE DINGO-CHASER, by LEX MCLENNAN Poem Text First Line: His camp was warm in the wilgas, the scent of the dew was sweet Last Line: He follows across the midnight the way that the wild dog goes. Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Death; Dingoes; Dogs; Story-telling; Dead, The THE DROVE-ROAD, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas going to snow - 'twas snowing! Curse his luck Last Line: Even the best rum tasted better, shared. Subject(s): Cattle THE FIRST BIRTH, by RODNEY JONES Poet's Biography First Line: I had not been there before where the vagina opens Subject(s): Birth; Cattle; Farm Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Agriculture; Farmers THE FIRST SURVEYOR, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The opening of the railway line! - the governor and all! Last Line: I'm sorry, but I can't come down -- I'm dining out tonight!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Cattle; Horses; Hunting; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters THE GRASS STEALERS, by J. MURRAY ALLISON Poem Text First Line: In australia where the cattle tracks Last Line: Or some other watercourse. Subject(s): Cattle; Drovers; Grass THE GUNDAROO BULLOCK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, there's some that breeds the devon that's as solid as a / stone Last Line: But you mustn't ask for 'bullock' when you go to gundaroo. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cattle; Ranch Life THE LAST MUSTER, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All day we had driven the starving sheep to the scrub where the axes ply Last Line: And I woke to the red burned acres, and knew that I had but dreamed. Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Cattle; Dreams; Drovers; God; Greed; Nightmares; Avarice; Cupidity THE LITTLE WORN-OUT PONY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There's a little worn-out pony this side of hogan's shack Last Line: But I doubt if there's his equal in the pony world today Subject(s): Animals;cattle;children;heroism;horses; Childhood;heroes;heroines THE MOCKING BIRD, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heat is overwhelming Last Line: And from the cactus the call of the mocking-birds. Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Fields; Mockingbirds; Singing & Singers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE PHANTOM MOB, by W. H. FLEMING Poem Text First Line: Yes; I'm harry black - mad harry - and I often hear 'em say Last Line: Those pikers from the back parooI'm looking for 'em yet! Alternate Author Name(s): Page, The Subject(s): Cattle; Drovers; Ghosts; Supernatural THE STAMPEDE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lightning tossed its tangled boughs Last Line: Lest they should rise again. Subject(s): Cattle; Lightning; Storms; Lightning Rods THE TRAIL, by J. O. GARRETT Poem Text First Line: Dust clouds and dragging hoofs Last Line: Up the long trail to better pastures. Subject(s): Cattle; Roads; Paths; Trails THE VERMONT 'HIRED MAN', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hired man we knew of yore Last Line: The past and present hired man. Subject(s): Cattle; Cows; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Milk; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Milkmen; Milkmaids UNDER THE SHADOW OF KILEY'S HILL, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place where they all were bred Last Line: Under the shadow of kiley's hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cattle; Death; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Dead, The WINDOW, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: The wind has no soul, not even a body! Last Line: They supposedly don't exist! %the woodpile as high as the pantheon collapses Subject(s): Cattle; Labor And Laborers; Merchants WITH THE CATTLE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The drought is down on field and flock Last Line: Their heroes from the overland who brought the cattle home. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cattle; God; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) |
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