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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EGGS Matches Found: 55 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEYTZEH: SEASON OF THE EGG, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the season of the egg Last Line: To do and stronger light Subject(s): Jewish Families; Eggs BLOWING EGGS, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not the nest Subject(s): Nest; Eggs 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 CHRISTMAS HYMN FOR LAMBETH, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The lambeth guardians sing Last Line: You will talk about the war %and eat and eat until you snore Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C. Subject(s): Christmas; Eggs COLDER BLUE, by ROBERT HILL LONG Poem Source First Line: The robin egg lay on the breakfast table Last Line: Just don't make it die,' he said Subject(s): Eggs DETACHED VIEW, by ALMA DENNY Poem Source First Line: The acorn is a masterpiece Last Line: Holding within, when dropped - watch out! %the makings of a mess! Subject(s): Eggs; Trees EASTER EGG, by ALAN KIEFFABER Poem Source First Line: If you must crack it Last Line: Then hatched %and lives! Subject(s): Eggs EGG, by GEORGE BOWERING Poem Source First Line: The egg sat on the workbench Subject(s): Eggs EGG, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The old woman dried an egg Last Line: Remains the one thing that is new Subject(s): Eggs; Food And Eating; Household Employees EGG, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside me is the peace of an egg Last Line: So peaceful too under snow Subject(s): Eggs; Peace; Self; Clemency EGG, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this kingdom Subject(s): Eggs 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 EGG BOILER, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being you, you cut your poetry from wood Last Line: Shaping a gorgeous nothingness from cloud. %you watch us, eat your egg, and laugh aloud Subject(s): Eggs EGG WHITES, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source First Line: These are not emotions when you speak of the island Last Line: And you know in your heart I will be there forever for you Subject(s): Eggs; Love; Poetry And Poets EGGS, by HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bob has blown a hundred eggs Last Line: If those eggs began to sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxford And Asquith, 1st Earl Subject(s): Eggs EGGS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The egg a chick pokes its head out of Last Line: That they are all hell to fertilize Subject(s): Eggs EGGS, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Eggs that come from chickens Last Line: Until the mixture of yolk and white %is thoroughly blended Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Eggs EGGS, by KATHRYN ANN KERR Poem Source First Line: Over coffee he said, 'they're barnloft eggs. Don't Subject(s): Eggs EGGS, by PHILIP LEGLER Poem Source First Line: It was delivered, all right Subject(s): Eggs EGGS, by LAWRENCE SCHUG Poem Source First Line: Eggs 4 sale Last Line: He stops because he'd like his life %sunny side up for a change Subject(s): Eggs EGGS, by JILL STEIN Poem Source First Line: Over the omelette charlie Subject(s): Eggs EGGS, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morning broke like an egg Subject(s): Eggs; Conduct Of Life EGGSHELL, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The color of life is an almost pale white robin's green Subject(s): Eggs EGGSHELL, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The color of life is an almost pale white robin's green Last Line: To prop up a rosebush, the way we do, sweet larry Subject(s): Eggs FOR SATURDAY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now's the time for mirth and play, / saturday's an holiday! Last Line: Your praises to th' eternal king. Variant Title(s): Hymns For Saturday Subject(s): Birds; Eggs; Larks; Saturday Club; Skylarks FRIEND OF THE ENEMY, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The yolk went down my leg Subject(s): Eggs; Nature HARD-BOILED EGGS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love the way shells come off in curved pieces Last Line: Then, with the flourish of a lunch-hour artiste, %spread them on rye bread, add lettuce, and feast Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Eggs; Food And Eating HENS OF ORIPO, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The aged hens of oripo, %they tempt the stormy sea Last Line: O! Oo! Oripo-oo! The hens of oripo! Subject(s): Eggs; Hens HOW THE HEN SOLD HER EGGS TO THE STINGY PRIEST, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An egg is a grand thing for a journey Last Line: Beating and beating the gold alive Subject(s): Eggs IN AN EGG YOLK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: An artery fine as the touch %of a feather Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Eggs; Nature IN THE EGG, by GUNTER WILHELM GRASS Poem Source First Line: We live in the egg Last Line: What shall we do then, my brethren inside the egg? Subject(s): Eggs IT'S IN THE EGG; IN THE LITTLE ROUND EGG, by JOE ROSENBLATT Poem Source First Line: We are continually bored with the air Last Line: Dipped in the yolk of the egg, in the yolk that tells all Subject(s): Eggs LIMERICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a young lady of venice Last Line: You don't know how prolific my hen is Subject(s): Eggs;tennis LITTLE BLUE EGG, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day we found a little nest Last Line: I can't see why, can you? Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Eggs MOTHERHOOD, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She laid it where the sunbeams fall Last Line: "and only hear the noise she's making!" Subject(s): Eggs; Hens; Ingenuity MY SKIN IS SILVER, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source Last Line: My heart all gold Subject(s): Eggs; Native Americans; Riddles 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 OUR FRIEND THE EGG, by CLARENCE DAY Poem Source First Line: Oh who that ever lived and loved Subject(s): Birth; Eggs POEM FOR YELLOW SILK, by CATHERINE WAGNER Poem Source First Line: Danish pastry Last Line: Her day was a sucked egg and I painted its insides Subject(s): Eggs; Yellow (color) RIDDLE, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: I have a house Last Line: That has no door Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Eggs; Riddles; Trees RIDDLE: EGG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I was walking in a field of wheat / I picked up something good to eat Last Line: I kept it till it ran alone Subject(s): Eggs;riddles RIDDLE: EGGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A long white barn Last Line: "and no door at all, at all" Subject(s): Eggs;riddles SOFT-BOILED EGG, by RUSSELL HOBAN Poem Source First Line: I do not like the way you slide Last Line: And I could do for many days %without eggs Subject(s): Eggs SORCERY, by ANNE WARD JAMIESON Poem Source First Line: I stood, my eyes level with the knob Last Line: Clouding its flat yolk of yellow blood Subject(s): Eggs; Magic; Mothers THE DINOSAURS' EGG, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: One morn in old mongolia Last Line: The eggs that never hatched. Subject(s): Dinosaurs; Eggs 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 EGG BOILER, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being you, you cut your poetry from wood Last Line: You watch us, eat your egg, and laugh aloud Subject(s): Eggs THE HERON'S NEST, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world-mother sits on her sky-blue eggs Last Line: And a radiant voice that was like the king's! Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eggs; Herons; Minstrels THE IDAHO EGG WOMAN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halfway between troy and moscow Last Line: Her age a cipher of circles. Subject(s): Eggs; Idaho; Women THE NEST, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This eve I left the flocks to stray and crop the grass with no one by Last Line: Believe you were a little saint just changed to child from angelhood! Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Children; Eggs; Childhood THE WRECKAGE ON THE WALL OF EGGS, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cried over humpty-dumpty Last Line: I think of mynas Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Children; Eggs; Racial Equality; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THREE EGGS UP, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three sunset eggs on a white plate Subject(s): Eggs; War THREE NESTS, by MICHAEL J. ROSEN Poem Source First Line: The first, a robin built atop a house Last Line: We stood a chance of learning it, in what time remains Subject(s): Birds; Eggs; Robins TREAD THE DARK: 23, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside me is the peace of an egg Last Line: I am prepared to enjoy it Subject(s): Eggs; Peace; Self TRINITY, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: One trinity I believed in: %the unborn, the living, the dead Last Line: It was only listening absently to the cracks %inside itself Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Eggs |
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