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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHICKENS Matches Found: 35 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 700 CHICKENS DIED HERE FOR YOUR DINNER, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: I'm standing in a dusty yard by a bloody stump Last Line: Submit to this and we'll proceed. %it's your decision Subject(s): Chickens; Punishment A VERMONT CHICKEN BUYER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When stronger grew november's cold Last Line: With other chaps and chickens. Subject(s): Business; Chickens; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Vermont; Businessmen; Businesswomen ANATOMICAL OBSERVATION, by LENORE EVERSOLE FISHER Poem Text First Line: A chicken's skin hides Last Line: Its interesting insides. Subject(s): Chickens BIRD COACH, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: Was it chickens children lapwings letterings Last Line: I. E. Broke off the tree that it %formed the poet's initial Subject(s): Birds; Chickens; Food And Eating; Poetry And Poets; Restaurants BLUE COCKEREL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning was never here, nor more dark ever Last Line: Or what wakening does he herald with all terror? Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Birds; Chickens; Wings BOY AND EGG, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every few minutes, he wants Last Line: Or the rest of the day. Subject(s): Birds; Chickens; Eggs; Hens CHICKEN LITTLE, by WILLIAM FREEDMAN Poem Source First Line: So there I was Last Line: I would break their string of lonely nights. %I would be their fish Subject(s): Chickens; Fairy Tales CHICKS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chick in the egg picks at the shell Last Line: Star. Subject(s): Chickens COCKFIGHT IN A LOXAHATCHEE GROVE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trucks backed against the canal Last Line: And dragging wings, only one crawls back into our shadow. Subject(s): Chickens; Gambling; Men; Wagering; Betting DOUBT, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A chick has just so much time Subject(s): Doubt; Chickens; Skepticism DR. EGG: 3 SESSION 25: CHICKEN KILLING, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: I follow my father Last Line: Are twitching %like small, involuntary muscles Subject(s): Chickens; Death - Animals; Fathers EGG, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you listen very carefully, you'll hear the chicken hatching Last Line: But, wait a minute, that's no chicken - goodness, it's a goose Subject(s): Chickens; Eggs HOW TO TRICK A CHICKEN, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: It's perfectly obvious why Last Line: Do you mind if I help you get dressed?' Subject(s): Chickens KILLING IN THE OLD COUNTRY, by JAMES RAGAN Poem Source First Line: In her sack she feels the rope, thinks Last Line: Cycling the knot, has shucked the whimper off Subject(s): Chickens; Czechoslovakia LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF CHICKENS, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dreams; Chickens; Nightmares LIKE DE OLE MULE BES', by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks is so't o' pa'shal to de cattle roun' de Last Line: I so't o' like de ole mule bes'. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Chickens; Cows; Dogs; Farm Life; Goats; Love; Agriculture; Farmers LINES TO A PERFECT SHE, by ROBERT EMMET Poem Text First Line: Oh, priceless fowl, so safe and sure Last Line: Do all the crowing. Subject(s): Chickens LOWELL: 74., by AHARON SHABTAI Poem Source First Line: Your secret refuge the private room of the golden chicken Last Line: A breast soberly talking poetics with a young man facing Subject(s): Chickens; Poetry And Poets MISSING THE BO IN THE HENHOUSE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In here, caught by the storm. How the rain beats Last Line: Commend me to the storm. Good night, good night Subject(s): Chickens; Hens MOONLIGHT: CHICKENS ON THE ROAD, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Called out of dream by the pitch and screech Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Chickens; Grief; Ozarks (mountains); Sorrow; Sadness NONSENSE RHYMES: 7, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Nana caliche Last Line: Will eat her dough Subject(s): Chickens;nonsense O BROTHER CHICKEN! SISTER CHICK!, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Egg-nostics for to be? Subject(s): Birth; Chickens; Creation; Eggs ODE TO MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKEN, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gaze not at me, my poor unhappy bird Last Line: Sings to my bird the song! Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Subject(s): Chickens; Petrels PASSING A TRUCK FULL OF CHICKENS AT NIGHT ON HIGHWAY EIGHTY, by JANE MEAD Poem Source First Line: What struck me first was their panic Last Line: That is the chicken I want to be Subject(s): Chickens; Hope SPARED, by MARTHA ZWEIG Poem Source First Line: In today's permission, a dozen chickens Last Line: Switching in the dandelion puffs Subject(s): Chickens TENDER BUTTONS: CHICKEN, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pheasant and chicken, chicken is a peculiar third. Subject(s): Chickens THE CAPON'S TALE TO A LADY WHO FATHERED HER LAMPOONS ..., by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In yorkshire dwelt a sober yeoman Last Line: Nor like your capons, serve your cocks. Subject(s): Chickens THE CHICKEN CLUB, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are members in good standing Last Line: And we're sprouting chickens Subject(s): Chickens THE CHICKEN'S MISTAKE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little downy chicken one day Last Line: Where you never were made for going! Subject(s): Chickens THE COCK, by HERMAN FETZER Poem Text First Line: Give me a hot summer Last Line: Says the cock. Alternate Author Name(s): Falstaff, Jake Subject(s): Chickens; Cock-fighting; Spring; Summer THE EGG, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you listen very carefully, you'll hear the chicken hatching Subject(s): Chickens; Eggs THE NEW DOLL'S HOUSE: 6. THE GARDEN, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The garden full of Last Line: Trees and chickens. Subject(s): Chickens; Gardens & Gardening; Trees THE OWL AND THE CROW, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old owl Last Line: "it's not without caws" Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Birds; Chickens; Crows; Owls WHITE HEN, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: Then the wind-ruffled white hen of march Last Line: Cool-handed april and may! Subject(s): April; Chickens; Hens; March (month); May (month) WISHES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Said the first little chicken Last Line: Just come here and scratch Variant Title(s): Five Little Chickens Subject(s): Chickens;wishes |
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