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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DEATH - ANIMALS Matches Found: 107 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DOG'S DEATH, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The loose earth falls in the grave like a peaceful regular breathing Last Line: Nor trouble what we do when we do it; nor would have it otherwise. Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs ALLI DYING, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shifts from one patch of shadow to another Subject(s): Cats; Death - Animals AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Good people all, of every sort Last Line: The dog it was that died! Variant Title(s): On The Death Of A Mad Dog Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs AN EPITAPH ON TRUE, HER MAJESTY'S DOG, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If wit or honesty cou'd save Last Line: And mend your own, by true's behaviour. Variant Title(s): True's Epitaph Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Epitaphs; Faith; Honesty; Belief; Creed ANIMAL GRAVES, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mower flipped it belly up Subject(s): Graves; Death - Animals; Tombs; Tombstones AT A DOG'S RESTING-PLACE (JACK, MON PAUVRE CHIEN), by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Part of the sylvan scene Last Line: And hearts are glad and ache. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Memory AT THE CABIN I LEFT HE CANOLA BOTTLE OPEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I had invented the mouse atom bomb Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death - Animals; Mice; Nature BARBED WIRE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One summer afternoon when nothing much Subject(s): Barbed Wire; Horses; Death - Animals BASHO'S FROG, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: A frog went plop in a pond three hundred years Last Line: It sits squat on that luminous leafpad Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Frogs; Memory BROODY, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ideally, they like to get the hole dug, then lead Last Line: Given in with her blind eyes open Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses BURYING PETS, by BRUCE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: We had to bury cal and uncle lou Last Line: We buried fluffy because we wanted to Subject(s): Animals; Children; Death - Animals BY THE WELL OF LIVING AND SEEING (1 - 12), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dying gull %alone on a rock Last Line: Now and then - %with a sharp cry Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Gulls CASUALTIES: 9. WHAT THE SQUIRREL SAID, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They killed the lion in his den Last Line: Of it about us, about our necks Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Bulls; Death - Animals; Hunting; Leopards CLASSIC OF POETRY: 23. 'DEAD ROE DEER', by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A roe deer dead in the meadow Last Line: And don't set the cur to barking Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Death - Animals; Deer COMPLETION, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday was tomorrow Subject(s): Goats; Death - Animals COWDOGS CAUGHT THEIR FIRST JACKRABBIT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Growling to protect his trophy, the bloody ears Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Nature; Rabbits DEAD HORSE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the fence line, I was about to call him in when Subject(s): Horses; Death - Animals; Food & Eating DEAD RACCOON, LEGS IN THE AIR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Washes his paws in the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death - Animals; Nature; Raccoons DEATH OF THE HORSES BY FIRE, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We have seen a house in the sleeping time Last Line: And called to each other to save them Subject(s): Horses; Death - Animals DEER HUNG FLAPPING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Pushed by an inner wind Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death - Animals; Deer; Nature DIFFICULT BODY, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Death - Animals DIRGE TO A DEAD OWL, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Silent, mysterious, on wings of down Last Line: You for the sweepstakes woodcock. Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Owls DOG DYING, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Dog dying in the hot sun Last Line: And the mortality of nerves and meat Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs DOG, ON THE OTHER HAND, by JOANNA CATHERINE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: You can cling to. A dog is not like an abandoned child Last Line: For my dead dog, for those abandoned little bodies %in the babies' home Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Sickness 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 DRAGGING HORSES, by M. REBECCA RANSOM Poem Source First Line: If it's your own horse, you don't want to watch Last Line: Curled in thier baskets, safe, nestled, held Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses DROUGHT, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had never before seen anything die Last Line: Of water too cruel to be spoken aloud Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Death - Animals; Drought EACH DEFEAT, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please! Keep / reading me Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Friendship; Relationships; Death - Animals; Failure ELEGY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gnu up at the zoo Last Line: Not close their eyes by night or day - %no, not even in death Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Death - Animals; Gnus; Zoos ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF PEG NICHOLSON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peg nicholson was a gude bay mare Last Line: As priest-rid cattle are, - &c. &c. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses ELEGY TO A DISSECTED PUPPY, SELS., by GEORGIA BAILEY PARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: Sweet dog! Now cold and stiff in death Last Line: Explore the contents of thy chest Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs EPITAPH FOR A STRAY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quite a nice dog is laid below Last Line: We were the only folks he had! Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs EPITAPH TO A DOG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near this spot Last Line: I never knew but one -- and here he lies. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs FORTY-ONE, ALONE, NO GERBIL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the strange quiet, I realize Subject(s): Death - Animals; Solitude GAINING WINGS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A twig where clung two soft cocoons Last Line: That free the folded wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Cocoons; Death - Animals; Moths GEIST'S GRAVE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four years! - and didst thou stay above Last Line: The dachs-hound, geist, their little friend. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Pets GOOFY YOUNG BALD EAGLE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A barrel of fish heads and guts Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Eagles; Gulls; Nature; Ravens HORSEFLIES, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After the horse went down Subject(s): Horses; Death - Animals HUMMINGBIRDS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They will be without arms like god Last Line: Who are wretched. Subject(s): Death - Animals; God; Hummingbirds HUNTER MIND, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Good luck, hunter mind, trailing through field Last Line: By flight of the plumaged implausible bird. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Fields; Food & Eating; Hunting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters HURT HAWKS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder Last Line: Before it was quite unsheathed from reality Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Euthanasia; Hawks HURT HAWKS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder Last Line: Fear at its rising %before it was quite unsheathed from reality Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Euthanasia; Hawks IN MEMORIAM: LEO, A YELLOW CAT, by MARGARET SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: If, to your twilight land of dream Last Line: Of gentle words and gentle hands. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death - Animals; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College IN THE MOHAVE, by PATRICK ORR Poem Text First Line: As I rode down the arroyo through yuccas belled with bloom Last Line: Where beat the heart of life so brief, so brief a while! Subject(s): Coyotes; Death - Animals; Mohave Desert; Mojave Desert IT WAS NIGHT, AND ON THE MOUNTAINS, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Time; Grief; Death - Animals; Sorrow; Sadness LARGO, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: Reverence and fear fill us when we are confronted Last Line: Clamor and the eternity of absolute silence Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Death - Animals; Hunting; Rabbits LINES ON THE DEATH OF A PET DOG; BELONGING TO LADY DOROTHY NEVILL, by WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK Poem Source First Line: Where are you now, little wandering Last Line: One little grave and a pang to us? Alternate Author Name(s): Mallock, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs 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 LITTLE DEATHS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every minute to two, another moth Subject(s): Death - Animals; Fish & Fishing; Moths; Anglers LOSS, by PATRICIA ZONTELLI Poem Source First Line: Digging up the bones. Reburying them Last Line: In a place where even I can't find them Subject(s): Animals; Bones; Death - Animals; Dogs; Loss MANITOWOC, by CAROLYN AHRENS Poem Source First Line: I did what my father told me to do Last Line: I was going, asked %if I wanted the meat Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death - Animals; Deer OBITUARY, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boris is dead. The fatalist parrot Last Line: And a black wreath decorates the door Subject(s): Parrots; Death - Animals ODE ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a lofty vase's side Last Line: Nor all, that glisters, gold. Variant Title(s): Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes;gray's Elegy On Horace Walpole's Cat;on The Death Of A Favourite Cat;on A Favorite Cat Drowned In A Tub Of Goldfishes Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death; Death - Animals; Goldfish; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ON A FAVOURITE DOG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Thou who passest on the path Last Line: Likewise engraved those words on my tomb Subject(s): Animals;death - Animals;dogs;epitaphs ON A MALTESE WATCH-DOG, by TYMNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here the stone says it holds the white dog Last Line: Voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Carian Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Epitaphs ON A SMALL DOG, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Animula vagula blandula, foundling dear Last Line: And so to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Tokyo ON SHOOTING A SWALLOW IN EARLY YOUTH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hoard a little spring of secret tears Last Line: I seem to love the little ghost I made. Subject(s): Death - Animals; Swallows ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE OLD SPANIEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And they have drowned thee then at last! Poor phillis Last Line: Of their own charity, may envy thee! Subject(s): Aging; Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Drowning; Future Life; Grief; Loss; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF A LAP-DOG, ECHO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In wood and wild, ye warbling throng Last Line: With echo silent lies. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs ON THE DEATH OF A LAP-DOG, SELS., by JONATHAN SMEDLEY Poem Source First Line: Erigone, celestial maid Last Line: Cou'd take a pinch; or relish tea Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs ON THE DEATH OF CYNTHIA'S HORSE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er the world could boast of fair or good Last Line: When carrying her who to the sun gave light. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses ON THE SKELETON OF A HOUND, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nightfall, that saw the morning-glories float Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Skeletons; Dogs; Death - Animals PARDON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dog lay dead five days without a grave Last Line: But whether this was false or honest dreaming %I beg death's pardon now. And mourn the dead Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Mourning PICTURES, by SARAH BEAUMONT KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: The vet says, either you can give her a shot Last Line: And I say yes, yes, I do, even though I wasn't there Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Family Life; Horses; Sickness PLACE IN THE WOODS, by NANCY JESSER Poem Source First Line: After I found the dogs Last Line: The house made dark with it %and losing color Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs PREDICTIONS ABOUT A BLACK CAT, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four boys have been arrested for killing geese. This is how it Subject(s): Death - Animals; Automobile Accidents; Storms RITO, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Short for el rito. The town dog Last Line: For rito, the town dog - a free spirit! Subject(s): Animals; Bones; Death - Animals; Dogs; Graves ROADKILL, by PRISCILLA FRAKE Poem Source First Line: My first boss's hobby was roadkill Last Line: As simple, as dense with meaning, as clean as bones Subject(s): Death - Animals; Roads RUBY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor ruby is dead! And before her no more Last Line: When they look at thy hearthrug-'poor ruby is dead!' Subject(s): Accidents; Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Murder SIGNALS, by PATRICIA ZONTELLI Poem Source First Line: I have heard that the dead Last Line: You know, you really deserve this good life.' Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs SMALL DEFEATS: BURYING A DOG, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: See how, in death, it seems to grin Last Line: Fears are not banished by a grin Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs SMALL ELEGY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a bird pasted to muck Last Line: We leave him guessing our first laws Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals SONNET, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took the dappled partridge flecked with blood Last Line: To make my love an immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Love - Nature Of; Partridge; Rabbits; Hares STILLBIRTH, by VIVIENNE JOSEPH Poem Source First Line: That time (in ignorance) I held the pig Last Line: Watching a dying animal %& the man who stood over it %smiling, wiping his knife Subject(s): Death - Animals STRATEGY, by VIRGINIA WOODS MACKALL Poem Text First Line: When my poor pussy died, I took Last Line: And let her in to heaven for me. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death - Animals SURVIVAL, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the church of giraffes Subject(s): Love; Death - Animals TARANTULAS ON THE LIFEBUOY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For some semitropical reason Subject(s): Tarantulas; Death - Animals TENDERNESS KILLED THE CAT, by JAN FREEMAN Poem Source First Line: It started with an old train Last Line: Innocence %the cat was dead Subject(s): Death - Animals THE BLUE BOWL, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Like primitives we buried the cat Last Line: But always says the wrong thing Subject(s): Death - Animals; Cats THE BURIAL OF THE LINNET, by JULIANA HORATIA GATTY EWING Poem Text First Line: Found in the garden dead in his beauty Last Line: Muffle the dinner-bell, mournfully ring. Subject(s): Death - Animals; Linnets THE DEAD CALF, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snow has fallen Last Line: In the baling arms of the tractor. Subject(s): Cows; Death - Animals; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE DEAD LARK, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the slope, half-hid in grass, and right beneath the sounding wire Last Line: To the carol of his fellows and the sunshine overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Larks; Railroads; Singing & Singers; Skylarks; Railways; Trains; Songs THE DEAD SPARROW, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not of joy; there's none Last Line: To sing dirges o'er his stone. Variant Title(s): Lesbia Upon Her Sparrow Subject(s): Death - Animals; Sparrows THE DEAD THRUSH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love of nest and mate and young Last Line: Melt in rhapsodies of rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Thrushes THE DEATH OF THE STARTLING, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pity, mourn in plaintive tone Last Line: Softly stroke the stiffened wing. Subject(s): Death - Animals; Starlings THE DREAM OF FEBRUARY, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the moonlight, Subject(s): Hunting; Death - Animals; Foxes THE GIRL WHO BURIED SNAKES IN A JAR, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came to see the bones Subject(s): Snakes; Death - Animals; Serpents; Vipers THE GRAVE OF THE KITCHEN MOUSE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stone says coors Subject(s): Mice; Death - Animals THE LAST DYING SPEECH AND CONFESSION OF POOR PUSS, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind masters and misses, whoever you be Last Line: She stopped, gave a sigh, and a struggle, and died! Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death - Animals THE LITTLE DOG'S DAY, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the town were still asleep Subject(s): Dogs; Death - Animals; Soldiers' Writings THE LULL, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The possum lay on the tracks fully dead. Subject(s): Opossums; Death - Animals; Possums THE MOUSE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the floor of a parking garage Subject(s): Mice; Death - Animals THE MOWER, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found Subject(s): Mowing & Mowers; Death - Animals; Hedgehogs; Lawn Mowers THE NIGHTINGALE'S DEATH-SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mournfully, sing mournfully Last Line: With summer I depart! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Nightingales THE PARDON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dog lay dead five days without a grave Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Mourning; Bereavement THE SARAJEVO ZOO, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Men had used up their hands, men had Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Sarajevo, Bosnia; Zoos; Death - Animals THE SCREEN, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk creeps in the parted shutter Last Line: I have lived for, a lonely customer. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Death - Animals THE WHEEL OF LOVE, LIKE ALL WHEELS, COMES FULL CIRCLE, by HARRY BROWN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I killed a wounded gull at tahoe once Subject(s): Gulls; Death - Animals; Seagulls THEN MOUSETRAPS IN THE CELLAR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Pretty good odds for living Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Death - Animals; Mice; Nature; Rodents TO A DEAD THRUSH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though silence shuts the gate of song Last Line: The groves of memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Thrushes TO A TERRIER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Crib, on your grave beneath the chestnut boughs Last Line: Ere death the dog-thief carried you afar! Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Pets TO A WREN ON CALVARY, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the unremarkable that will last, Subject(s): Wrens; Death - Animals; Man-woman Relationships; Jesus Christ; Male-female Relations TO EDWARD ON THE DEATH OF HIS FIRST PONY, by JAMES AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: Why weeps my boy?' his father said Last Line: Provide a cure for every ill Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses TOWSER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drove a horse for a long, long time Last Line: Down 'neath the buttercups—and it's true of men, just as well as pups. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Friendship; Pets TWO FOR SOPHIE DOG: 2. FOR MY SISTER, SANDRA HANKINS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: We returned from cancer's kingdom Last Line: Has lapped up sophie dog Subject(s): Animals; Cancer (disease); Death; Death - Animals; Dogs UPON HIS SPANIEL [SPANIELL] TRACIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now thou art dead, no eye shall ever see Last Line: Teare, that deserves of me a million. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs VACANT STALL, by ELIZABETH WILCOX BEASLEY Poem Text First Line: I went into the barn - the west was red Last Line: And feel your velvet nose against my cheek? Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses |
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