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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ELEPHANTS Matches Found: 57 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BESTIARY: THE ELEPHANT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In ynde ye may elephants see Last Line: Who had fallen to hell's depths dim Subject(s): Elephants ADDRESS TO MR. CROSS, OF EXETER 'CHANGE ON THE DEATH OF AN ELEPHANT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mr. Cross! Last Line: Shoot me! Subject(s): Animals; Elephants BLACK EARTH, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Openly, yes, / with the naturalness Last Line: Beautiful element of unreason under it? Variant Title(s): Melancthon Subject(s): Elephants BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT, by WILLIAM WENTHE Poem Source First Line: Six blind men came upon an elephant Last Line: And said, there remains the slight matter of the bill Subject(s): Animals; Elephants BRING UP THE ELEPHANTS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just when the sky was getting light Last Line: "and yell, ""bring up the elephunts!" Subject(s): Elephants CIRCUS ELEPHANT, by KATHRYN WORTH Poem Source First Line: Does the elephant remember Last Line: Of a long-forgotten stream? Subject(s): Elephants CRADLE SONG OF THE ELEPHANTS, by ADRIANO DEL VALLE Poem Source First Line: The little elephant was crying Last Line: The moon will hear my little fellow Subject(s): Elephants DILIGENCE IS TO MAGIC AS PROGRESS IS TO FLIGHT, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With an elephant to ride upon-'with rings on her Last Line: Which dubs them prosaic necessitiesnot curios. Subject(s): Elephants DRAWN BY STONES, BY EARTH, BY THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN IN FIRE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can tell you about this because I have held in my hand Last Line: Like inky sponges that walk away in the deep water. Subject(s): Craftsmanship; Elephants ELECTRIC ELEPHANT, by MICHAEL PENNY Poem Source First Line: It's a bull elephant full on Last Line: The electric elephant will not notice me Subject(s): Elephants ELEPHANT, by HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here comes the elephant Last Line: Of what is he thinking %between those wide ears? Alternate Author Name(s): Oxford And Asquith, 1st Earl Subject(s): Elephants ELEPHANT, by NOEL HARRY BRETTELL Poem Source First Line: Slowly the great head turned Subject(s): Elephants ELEPHANT, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: I said it was an elephant's turd, but fay, six, didn't believe me. She Last Line: Happier than he already was Subject(s): Animal Rights; Circus; Elephants; Freedom; Happiness ELEPHANT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: A prehistoric boulder Last Line: Walks in the circus parade. Subject(s): Animals; Circus; Elephants ELEPHANT IS SLOW TO MATE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elephant, the huge old beast Last Line: Moves as the moon-tides, near, more near, %till they touch in flood Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Elephants ELEPHANT [ODA AL ELEFANTE], SELS., by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gross innocent %saint elephant Last Line: Softly you go %in your swagger Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Elephants ELEPHANT'S TRUNK, by ALICE WILKINS Poem Source First Line: The elephant always carries his trunk Last Line: It's part of his head - it's grown! Subject(s): Elephants ELEPHANT, OR THE FORCE OF HABIT, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tail behind, a trunk in front Last Line: The force of habit is so strong Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Elephants ELEPHANT: 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Elephant, who brings death Last Line: Wherever he walks %the grass is forbidden to stand Subject(s): Elephants ELEPHANTS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uplifted and waved till immobilized Subject(s): Elephants ELEPHANTS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uplifted and waved till immobilized Last Line: Asleep on an elephant, that is repose Subject(s): Elephants ELEPHANTS IN ASHEBORO, by DAPHNE ATHAS Poem Source First Line: Asheboro is the place our elephants live Last Line: Come out, come out, whoever you are. %come out and meet the rising wind of death.' Subject(s): Death; Elephants; Life ELEPHANTS OF THAILAND, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: The elephants of thailand perform their bows extremely well Last Line: Their relatively uneventful independence Subject(s): Elephants; Etiquette ELETELEPHONY, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was an elephant Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. Subject(s): Elephants; Tongue Twisters ELETELEPHONY, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was an elephant Last Line: I fear I'd better drop the song %of elephop and telephong! Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. Subject(s): Elephants; Tongue Twisters EPISTLE TO MR. FOX, FROM HAMPTON COURT: NATURE QUERIES, by JOHN HERVEY (1696-1743) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will the wise elephant desert the wood Last Line: And eat when hungry, and when am'rous love? Alternate Author Name(s): Hervey Of Ickworth, Baron Subject(s): Animals; Elephants; Hunger; Nature; Taste (sense) EVERYTHING OPAQUE ABOUT US, PERHAPS, by ANTHONY WILSON Poem Source Last Line: The car-tyre screech of our cries Subject(s): Elephants; Riddles FENTON PHLANTZ, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fenton phlantz is fairly werid Subject(s): Elephants GHOST ELEPHANTS, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the elephant field Subject(s): Elephants; Ghosts GIFT OF TUSKS, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Big scare today, in coastal saxicali Last Line: Around my neck: two-pronged pendant, %my false-ivory %keepsake Subject(s): Elephants HIGH-HEARTS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proud elephant, by accident of bulk Last Line: Too high and low at once, too hard and soft Subject(s): Elephants; Giraffes; Hearts HOLDING HANDS, by LENORE M. LINK Poem Source First Line: Elephants walking %along the trails Last Line: They're holding hands %by holding tails Subject(s): Elephants IT'S HARD TO BE AN ELEPHANT, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That fit precisely right Subject(s): Elephants LET US PRAISE THE ELEPHANT, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The elephant brings it down - %man gai no chi Subject(s): Elephants PETE AT THE ZOO, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if the elephant Last Line: Against the dark of night Subject(s): Elephants; Zoos REMONSTRATORY ODE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mr. Matthews! Sir! Last Line: "or be it ""matthews, elephant, and co.!" Variant Title(s): Ode To Mr. Mathews Subject(s): Elephants; Opera ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE WHITE ELEPHANT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great mahawasant, of siam the king Last Line: Was by way of suez, and overland. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Elephants; India; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens RULES FOR THE ELEPHANT PARADE, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Follow the fellow-phant Last Line: Go right ahead and %start flapping your ears Subject(s): Elephants SEEING THE ELEPHANT, by JACKIE BARTLEY Poem Source First Line: Imagine loving an elephant Last Line: Beyond the margins of proof Subject(s): Elephants; Houses; Summer TENT CIRCUS, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: The cop clown is out back sitting on a hitch, nursing his sciatica while Last Line: The final orphans Subject(s): Animals; Circus; Clowns; Elephants; Entertainers THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was six men of indostan Last Line: Not one of them has seen! Subject(s): Elephants; Religion; Theology THE ELEPHANT, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When people call this beast to mind Last Line: So large a trunk before Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Elephants THE ELEPHANT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: E'er bribes convince you whom to choose Last Line: Ours sell themselves, and take the gold. Subject(s): Elephants THE ELEPHANT, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The elephant is very large Last Line: And gentle as a little child Subject(s): Elephants THE ELEPHANT IS SLOW TO MATE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elephant, the huge old beast Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Elephants THE ELEPHANT TRIES TO RESCUE THE JACKASS, by MARSHAL E. GROVER Poem Text First Line: If elphie had been slow to think Last Line: Down with autocracy. Subject(s): Elephants THE EXTRAORDINARY ELEPHANT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The extraordinary elephant climbed on the trapeze Last Line: The extraordinary elephant hanging by his knees. Subject(s): Elephants THE QUARRY, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the rice swamps and the fields of tea Last Line: They settled to the slot and disappeared. Subject(s): Eden; Elephants; Love; Philippines; Religion; Theology THRIFTY ELEPHANT, by JOHN HOLMES (1904-1962) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my rduyard-kipling-simple years I read Last Line: Red-eyed, foot-dragging, single minded blunt- %tusk, lugging his bones to the bones piled? Subject(s): Elephants TIGERS, ESTRANGEMENTS, ELEPHANTS AND LIES, by RISHI AGRAWAL Poem Source First Line: One of my uncles that I never met Last Line: His son has been trampled by elephants Subject(s): Elephants; Family Life TOOMAI OF THE ELEPHANTS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and Last Line: I will revisit my lost loves, and playmates masterless! Variant Title(s): The Elephan Subject(s): Elephants TWO PERFORMING ELEPHANTS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stands with his forefeet on the drum Last Line: Is too much for them Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Elephants WAR SUITE: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elephant to couple in peace Last Line: Dark and clear within her continent. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Elephants; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime WASHING THE ELEPHANT, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Circus; Confession; Religion; Family Life; Elephants; Theology; Relatives WE MUST BE POLITE: 2, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If an elephant knocks on your door Subject(s): Elephants; Etiquette; Manners; Courtesy WE MUST BE POLITE: 2, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If an elephant knocks on your door Last Line: Of potatoes - will that be enough for %your breakfast, sir Subject(s): Elephants; Etiquette WHERE IT'S AT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: There's big money in elephantine art Last Line: Art is anarchy, darling. Hot shit! Subject(s): Art And Artists; Elephants |
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