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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 paroo—I'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)