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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BESTIARY: THE HART, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the hart, it hath customs twain"
Last Line: "mickle need, I trow, have we / to obey his will"
Subject(s): Deer


A CAPTIVE DEER, by IDA M. FOLSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: A spirit cowed, that once has faced
Last Line: A spirit cowed?
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Deer; Freedom; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Liberty


A HUNDRED MULE DEER IN THE BACK YARD; I.M. ALLEN GINSBERG, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleepwalkers' chess condensare ad absurdum
Last Line: I want to remember him a little longer
Subject(s): Deer; Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)


A SUNDAY DRIVE THROUGH EAGLE COUNTRY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Near no name, colorado
Last Line: I knew I'd lost it.
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Creative Ability; Death; Deer; Loss; Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911); Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Pregnancy; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The; Similes


A WOUNDED DEER LEAPS HIGHEST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: "and ""you're hurt"" exclaim!"
Subject(s): Death; Deer


AA WHAT FLOWER STICK, by MIKI MAASO    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


AA YEWELI HIWEK, by MIKI MAASO    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


ADDRESS TO A WILD DEER, by JOHN WILSON (1785-1854)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Magnificent creature! So stately and bright!
Last Line: As nature's fierce son in the wilderness dies.
Alternate Author Name(s): North, Christopher
Subject(s): Deer


ALA AMAN TEWEKAPO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


ALA SENU KUTATAKA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


ALTHOUGH UNSEEN IN THE WILDERNESS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


AMEN, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone calls duchess, our fawn great dane, back
Last Line: Rising from ethel rosenberg's hair.
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Hunting; Primitive Man; Rosenberg Case; Dead, The; Hunters; Cavemen; Rosenberg, Ethel; Rosenberg, Julius


ANIMALS' RETURN, by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mostly deer. Walking around the back yard
Last Line: Won't believe the future means exactly us, ourselves
Subject(s): Animals; Deer; Survival


AROUND THERE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


AS HITA SEA KUTATAKA, by MIKI MAASO    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


AWA HISA MOELAM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In awa hisa molewaim
Subject(s): Deer


AYATEMAWOKI / HALIWAKA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


BATHING, HE IS BATHING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


BLACK CLOUD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am not the enchanted light blue cloud
Subject(s): Deer


BLACK COWBIRD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As upon the light blue earth, you play
Subject(s): Deer


BUCK IN THE SNOW, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White sky, over the hemlocks bowed with snow
Last Line: Shift their loads a little, letting fall a feather of snow--%life, looking out attentive from the ey
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Deer


BUT ONE STICK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


BUT THERE IS HEAVEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


CARIBOU, by KENNETH ROSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The caribou that starved to death
Subject(s): Deer


CARIBOU, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far, far southward, the forest is white, not merely
Subject(s): Deer


CARIBOU, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far, far southward, the forest is white, not merely
Last Line: They must have been going somewhere
Subject(s): Deer


CHUKULI NAMUTA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ne ka yo toloko namutakaine
Subject(s): Deer


CHUKULI POUTELA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As tolo bwiapo yeyewe
Subject(s): Deer


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


COUONTRY LIFE, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because the deer
Last Line: Who come through %eating everything
Subject(s): Deer


CRYSTAL MOMENT, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Once or twice this side of death
Subject(s): Deer


DEAD DEER, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid pale green milkweed, wild clover
Last Line: Cruel luxuriance.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deer; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence


DEAF MOUNTAIN LION, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a ho'opo, nodding as I am walking
Subject(s): Deer


DEER, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shy in their herding dwell the fallow deer
Last Line: Beautiful flocks of the mind.
Subject(s): Deer


DEER, by NO CHUN-MYUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: That long neck of yours
Last Line: You crane your sad neck %to gaze at the farawway hills
Subject(s): Deer


DEER AMONG CATTLE, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Full 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


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


DEER HUNTING, by MAY FAIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Half hidden near a narrow mountain lane
Last Line: In hoping for the safety of the deer.
Subject(s): Deer; Hunting; Hunters


DEER IN THE MISTY WOODLOT, by FRED LAPE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My feet were held by grasses bent with snow
Last Line: Curtains of life, running into the clear.
Subject(s): Deer; Forests; Woods


DEER PERSON, by FELIPE MOLINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: So now this is the deer person
Subject(s): Deer


DEER PERSON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So now this is the deer person
Subject(s): Deer


DEER, FR. A BESTIARY, by SU SHIH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deer %deer are gentle and graceful
Last Line: Men have invented several %thousand ways of killing them
Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi
Subject(s): Deer


DOE AT EVENING, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I went through the marshes
Last Line: Has she not fled on the same wind with me? %does not my fear cover her fear?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Deer


DOOR IN THE MOUNTAIN, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never ran this hard through the valley
Subject(s): Deer


EARTHY ANECDOTE, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every time the bucks went clattering
Subject(s): Deer


EILIDH MY FAWN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far away upon the hills at the lighting of the dawn
Last Line: For o it was the hunting then of my bonnie, bonnie fawn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Deer; Happiness; Hearts; Hunting; Joy; Delight; Hunters


ELAPO YEU WENE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


ELEGIES FOR THE OCHER DEER ON THE WALLS AT LASCAUX, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are hearing a distant, almost familiar, french cradlesong
Last Line: A white baton flew up!
Subject(s): Caves; China; Clergy; Deer; France; Lament; Caverns; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops


EME EMO OW SAILAKAME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


EMPO KA YO KAUSI WOLEKAME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


EXHAUSTED FROM RUNNING, YOU ARE WALKING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


FAWN IN THE SNOW, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brown-dappled fawn %bereft of the doe
Last Line: The fawn dreams %with wide brown eyes
Subject(s): Deer


FAWN WILL NOT MAKE FLOWERS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This daytime coolness reaches out
Subject(s): Deer


FAWN'S FIRST SNOW, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Suddenly, jeweled eyes
Subject(s): Deer


FAWN'S FOSTER-MOTHER, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old woman sits on a bench before the door and quarrels
Last Line: The stir of the world, the music of the mountain
Subject(s): Deer; Old Age


FEMALE MOUNTAIN LION, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flower lion, flower lion
Subject(s): Deer


FEUD, by LEW SARETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor wayworn creature! Oh, sorely harried deer
Last Line: Laughing -- one round for you, and one for me.
Subject(s): Deer; Hunting; Wolves; Hunters


FINAL TASTE, by BARRY STERNLIEB    Poem Source                    
First Line: With bow season almost here
Last Line: Of earth putting everything in its place
Subject(s): Deer; Nature


FIRST YOU JUST LOOK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


FLOWER BADGER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


FLOWER PERSON IS GOING TO THE WILDERNESS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flower person
Subject(s): Deer


FLOWER WILDERNESS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


FLOWER WILDERNESS WORLD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are an enchanted flower wilderness world
Subject(s): Deer


FLOWER-COVERED FAWN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aa flower-covered fawn went out
Subject(s): Deer


FLOWER-COVERED FLY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flower-covered fly, fly
Subject(s): Deer


FLOWER-COVERED GROVE, AS I AM WALKING TO YOU, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


FLOWER-COVERED, GOING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


GO AHEAD AND WALK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


GREEN SHADE, by HENRI COLE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With my head on his spotted back
Subject(s): Deer


GROWING FLOWER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


HAISA NE AUKA NE IN AWA HISA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


HAKUNHUNINE KA AMA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


HAKUNI CHAIWAME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


HARD LIVES, by MAIRI MACINNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was foggy and frosty, not a night to be out
Last Line: As it wasn't for us, who weren't secretive, or starving
Subject(s): Deer; Driving And Drivers; Life


HERD OF DOES, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no doe in all the herd
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Deer


HERE, WE, WHERE THE MESCAL AGAVE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


HILUKIAM TOVOTIANE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imete itom sea hilukiam
Subject(s): Deer


HOW TO SEE DEER, by PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forget roadside crossings
Last Line: What you see
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Deer


HUMMINGBIRD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the hummingbird, also
Subject(s): Deer


HUYA ANIWAI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


HUYAT EMATEKAMA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


ILI MASO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


IMTE KUYATAI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


IN YO SEATAKAWA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


IN YO SEATAKAWA KALALIPALIPATI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


JUNGLE POOL, by FRANCES SAWYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a doe that came for water
Last Line: I am the lion waiting there.
Subject(s): Animals; Deer; Lions


KA NE HUNI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


KA NE HUNI, by DON JESUS YOILI'I    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


KAU SATEMA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


KAUNI MUKIVALEKAI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


KIALEM VATA HIWEMAI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


KIANE HUYAPO KA YEU MACHIATA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


KILLED AND TAKEN, KILLED AND TAKEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


LET THE ONE GO OUT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


LITTLE DEER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


MAISO YOLEME, by FELIPE MOLINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ala inikun maiso yoleme
Subject(s): Deer


MAISO YOLEME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ala inikun maiso yoleme
Subject(s): Deer


MALE MOUNTAIN LION, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the enchanted spotted mountain lion ate
Subject(s): Deer


MALISU KA SEATENE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inika tae valita yeu yumako
Subject(s): Deer


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


METAKA WEIYAWA METAKA WEIYAMA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


MILK WHITE DOE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was a mother and a maid
Subject(s): Deer


MORNING SONG, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun on his face wakes him
Last Line: Pierce a magician's box.
Subject(s): Boys; Deer; Farm Life; Morning; Agriculture; Farmers


MOUNTAIN BUZZARD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


MOUNTAIN LION IS MAD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


MOUNTAIN LION MAY BE MAD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


MY ENCHANTED FLOWER BODY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


MY ENCHANTED FLOWER BODY IS GLISTENING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


NE CHE VAULINA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


NECHEM A SEATUA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


NEVER AGAIN I, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


NEVER AGAIN I, by DON JESUS YOILI'I    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


NIGHT PEOPLE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


NOT WANTING TO DIE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


NOVEMBER POEM, by ROCHELLE RATNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This morning all the hunters
Last Line: Then he says be careful
Subject(s): Animals; Deer; Fields; Hunting; Rifles


OLD ANTLER CROWN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My old antler crown
Subject(s): Deer


ON A TRENCHER SENT TO WILLIAM NOYE OF MAWGAN IN CORNWALL, by BEN JONSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the world was drowned
Last Line: To quicken the witt %which comes from noye's arke
Subject(s): Deer


ON BRANCHES, YOU LAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


ON EVERGREEN HILL, by ONAKATOMI NO YOSHINOBU ASON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: By their own belling %may know autumn has come
Subject(s): Deer


ON THE LUTES OF FRANCE: THE FAUN, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: A terra-cotta faun grimaces
Last Line: To sweep us to the sound of drums.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Deer


ONCE MORE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more by the brook the alder leaves
Last Line: Snorting and bounding heavily before me
Subject(s): Deer; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


OUSEI HAMUCHIA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sewa liowe, sewa liowe
Subject(s): Deer


OUSEI NAKAPIT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hopomoila mulati weyekai
Subject(s): Deer


OUSEI O'OW, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yolko ouselita yo hibwakaposu
Subject(s): Deer


OUSELI KUN OMTE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


OUSELI OMTEKAI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


PICK UP RASPERS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: These our flower raspers
Subject(s): Deer


PINE TREE TOPS, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the blue night
Subject(s): Night; Pine Trees; Rabbits; Deer; Bedtime; Hares


POSSESSION, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A deer! - nibbling on the few green things
Last Line: Created itself - with vanity and humility
Subject(s): Deer; Nature; Property


PSALM, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the small beauty of the forest
Subject(s): Deer


PSALM, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the small beauty of the forest
Last Line: In this in which the wild deer %startle, and stare out
Subject(s): Deer


PUT A FLOWER ON ME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


RED QUAIL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where the green bamboo stands
Subject(s): Deer


REFUGE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twilight, a timid fawn, went glimmering by
Last Line: Knew on the hunter's breast her refuge lay.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Deer; Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight


RETURN, by FLORENCE POWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The frosts web the morning: a deer, his
Last Line: Hastening ... Toward ... His death?
Subject(s): Autumn; Deer; Seasons; Fall


SANCTA SILVARUM, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the fresh woods there fleet
Last Line: These may be right.
Subject(s): Deer


SEA YOLEME HUYA SIKA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sea yoleme
Subject(s): Deer


SEATA VALUMAI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tane seata valumai
Subject(s): Deer


SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 4, by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You idiot! What makes you think decay will
Last Line: The slack leaf from which judah had sucked life?
Subject(s): Deer; Death


SEMALULUKUT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As semawlulukut taka huni
Subject(s): Deer


SEWA HULI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


SEWA HUYA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


SEWA HUYA ANIWA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Empo sewa yo huya aniwa
Subject(s): Deer


SEWA YOTUME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


SEWAILO MALICHI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As sewailo malichi yewelu sika
Subject(s): Deer


SEWAILO SANILOA EU NE WEYEKAI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


SEWAILO SEVOLI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sewailo sevoli sevoli
Subject(s): Deer


SEWAILO WESIME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


SEWAU HOTEKATE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vasate sewau hotekate
Subject(s): Deer


SIKILI SUVA'I, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Siali vakata weyekapo ne su
Subject(s): Deer


SILA, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upgrade, past snow-tangled bramble, past
Last Line: The dog exploded
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Eskimos; Native Americans; Dead, The; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SILA, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upgrade, past snow-tangled bramble, past
Last Line: Heart straining, to utter that cry? - but %cannot, breath short
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Eskimos; Native Americans


SNOW DEER, by CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One would take them for clumps
Last Line: Than is said, some truths %being almost beyond the telling
Subject(s): Deer


SONG FOR THE DEER AND MYSELF TO RETURN ON, by JOY HARJO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning when I looked out the roof window
Subject(s): Deer; Environment; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


SONG FOR THE DEER AND MYSELF TO RETURN ON, by JOY HARJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning when I looked out the roof window
Last Line: And nearly too late to go home
Subject(s): Deer; Environment


THE BUCK, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've tracked you up the wind, my buck
Last Line: You gallant little beast!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Animals; Deer; Fields; Hunting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters


THE BUCK IN THE SNOW, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: White sky, over the hemlocks bowed with snow
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Deer


THE CHILD AND HIND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, maids and matrons, to caress
Last Line: Wiesbaden's gentle hind.
Subject(s): Children; Deer; Legends, German; Wiesbaden, Germany; Childhood


THE CITY OF GOD, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now we knelt beside
Subject(s): Deer


THE COLOR OF MANY DEER RUNNING, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The air fresh, as it has been for days
Last Line: Not one deer, but when many of them run away
Subject(s): Abandonment; Deer


THE DEER, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You never know.
Subject(s): Deer


THE DEER, by LAURIE SHECK    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The deer is patience
Subject(s): Deer


THE DEER AND THE PROPHET, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A huntsman, enemy of those
Last Line: But may be worthy of a heavenly trust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Deer; Muhammad, The Prophet (570-632); Mahomet; Mohammed


THE DEER AND THE SNAKE, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The deer is humble, lovely as god made her
Subject(s): Deer; Snakes; Innocence; Serpents; Vipers


THE DEER IN GREENWICH PARK, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pathetic in their rags, from far and near
Last Line: Bondman, or brute that dies?
Subject(s): Deer; London; Parks


THE DEER LAY DOWN THEIR BONES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I followed the narrow cliffside trail half way up the mountain
Last Line: New discovery may lie. The deer in that beautiful place lay down their bones: I must wear mine
Subject(s): Deer; Old Age; Death; Dead, The


THE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One without looks in tonight
Last Line: Fourfooted, tiptoe.
Subject(s): Deer


THE FAUN, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The faun that haunts my fountain
Last Line: And kiss her lips with spray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Deer; Mythology - Classical; Nymphs; Pan (mythology)


THE HAUNCH OF VENISON, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Thanks, my lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter
Last Line: You may make a mistake, and think slightly of this.
Subject(s): Deer; Food & Eating


THE HIND, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind
Last Line: And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): "sonnets To Laura In Life: 157 (from Petrarch);rime 190 (imitated From Petrarch);sonnet: 11;hands Off!;""who So List To Hounte I Know Where Is An Hynde"";
Subject(s): Boleyn, Anne (1507-1536); Deer; Hunting; Love; Hunters


THE NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAUN [OR, FAWN], by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wanton troopers, riding by
Last Line: White as I can, though not as thee.
Variant Title(s): The Nymph's Grief For Her Faun;death Of The White Fawn
Subject(s): Deer; Nymphs


THE PLACE I WANT TO GET BACK TO, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is where / in the pinewoods
Subject(s): Forests; Deer; Gratitude; Woods


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 288, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deer live deep in the forest
Last Line: And soon their loveliness fades
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Deer; Mortality; Rot; Decadence


THE RISING OF THE SUN, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wake! Wake! Wake to the hunting!
Last Line: Forth to the hunting! The sun's riding high!
Subject(s): Deer; Hunting; Sea; Wolves; Hunters; Ocean


THE WHITE HART, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three huntsmen forth to the greenwood went
Last Line: Hush, hush!—bing, bang!—trara!
Subject(s): Deer; Hunting; Hunters


THE WHITE-FOOTED DEER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a hundred years ago
Last Line: And prowls the fox at night.
Subject(s): Deer


THE YOUNG HUNTER AND THE FAWN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far in a wide and silent forest's shade
Last Line: "and every wind doth whisper 'murderer!' "
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Deer; Forests; Hunting; Murder; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Woods; Hunters


THEOLOGY OF DEER, by DIANE GLANCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The jazz-bows of earth
Last Line: And you say dude of dudes and deer of deers
Subject(s): Deer; Religion


THERE HE COMES OUT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


THIS POEM IS FOR DEER, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dance on all the mountains
Subject(s): Deer; Hunting; Hunters


THREE DEER AND ONE COYOTE RUNNING IN THE SNOW, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First three deer bounding
Subject(s): Coyotes; Deer


TO KILL A DEER, by CAROL FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the changes of autumn brush
Subject(s): Hunting; Deer; Hunting; Sports; Hunters


TO THE LIGHT BLUE OUTSIDE, by MIKI MAASO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aa look out
Last Line: Up to the light blue outside
Variant Title(s): Aa Look Ou
Subject(s): Deer


TO THE LIGHT BLUE OUTSIDE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As look out
Subject(s): Deer


TOLO PAKUNI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aa yeweli hiweka
Subject(s): Deer


TOSALI VAESEVOLIM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tosali vaesevolimtea
Subject(s): Deer


TOSALI WIIKIT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


TOWARD A PLACE WHERE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Traveling through the dark I found a deer
Subject(s): Deer; Environment; Humanity; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Traveling through the dark I found a deer
Last Line: Then pushed her over the edge into the river
Subject(s): Deer; Environment; Humanity


TUKA YOLEMEM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


TWO DEER IN A GLADE, by HELEN MORROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two deer disturbed, alert to an alien sound
Subject(s): Deer


VACATION HINTS FOR YOUNG VERMONTERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! All you young vermonters
Last Line: The state you're living in.
Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Country Life; Deer; Hunting; Mountain Life - Vermont; Vacation; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters


VANSEKA WEYEMA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


VUITI YUMILATA KE WESIME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


WAKING, by CAROL FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was dusk, the light hesitating
Subject(s): Hunting; Deer


WANA YEU WEYEMA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wana yeu weyemai
Subject(s): Deer


WASH MY FACE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


WASH THE FLOWER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: But I am washed by the flower
Subject(s): Deer


WAUMANDEE, by MARK WUNDERLICH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man with binoculars
Subject(s): Deer


WE SIT DOWN TO THE FLOWER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Already we sit down to the flower
Subject(s): Deer


WHAT HAPPENED TO ME THAT MY HANDS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


WHERE A DEER FELL, by AL ORTOLANI    Poem Source                    
First Line: My daughter uncovers bones
Last Line: Into more ancient flesh
Subject(s): Deer; Nature


WHERE IS THE SHOUTING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


WHITE BIRD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


WHITE BUTTERFLIES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: White butterflies, they say
Subject(s): Deer


WHITETAILS, by GREG PAPE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The husks of yellow berries move
Last Line: Above the snow
Subject(s): Deer; Nature


WILDERNESS WORLD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


WINTER STUDY, by MARK WUNDERLICH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two days of snow, then ice
Subject(s): Winter; Deer


YOU WHO ARE EACH OTHER'S BROTHERS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


YOU WHO DO NOT HAVE ENCHANTED LEGS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer


YUVALI YUVALIKA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Deer