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Subject: EVOLUTION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLADE OF EVOLUTION, by GRANT ALLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the mud of the cambrian main
Last Line: While the needier go to the wall.
Subject(s): Evolution


A HUNDRED A DAY, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear 19th century! Give me refuge
Last Line: And was not seen as shocking, nor as omen
Subject(s): Evolution; Extinct Animals


A PRE-ADAMITE ON EVOLUTION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: An aged king of gorillas sat
Last Line: Nor dreamed that her kind could be free.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Nature; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans


A' CAUDAL' LECTURE, by WILLIAM SAWYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Philosophy shows us 'twixt monkey and man
Last Line: Instead of remaining each one a stump orator.
Subject(s): Evolution; Monkeys


AN ELEGY FOR THE PAST, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It will be darker soon, colder. You see
Last Line: To do was wait, and everything was time
Subject(s): Change; Evolution; Fate; Universe; Destiny


BENHAM'S DISK: 1. MUTATION, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beside a rolling tire, a child skips
Last Line: Evolution: a child born the color of mourning
Subject(s): Birth; Evolution; Science


BIOLOGICAL WALTZ, by DURS GRUNBEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Between cape town and greenland there is this forest
Last Line: We're difficult creatures because nothing's still true
Subject(s): Change; Evolution


BLESS YOU, by S. P. HEALEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I say this as the continents continue to drift
Last Line: Although she can't hear me. %bless you
Subject(s): Earth; Evolution; Trees


CELLS BREATHE IN THE EMPTINESS, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the flowers turn to husks
Last Line: How many inert molecules are ready to break into life?
Subject(s): Evolution


CHARITY, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What am I doing, you say to me, 'wasting the sweet summer hours?'
Last Line: Grave with flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Evolution


DARWIN, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was an ape in the days that were earlier
Last Line: Then he was a man and a positivist.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution


DARWINIAN, by LILLIAN MASON WILCOX    Poem Text                    
First Line: We wonder how soon evolution
Last Line: Its trespassing inclination.
Subject(s): Evolution


DARWINISM, by DANIELA CRASNARU    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can no longer write
Last Line: With their astonishing capacity %for adaptation
Subject(s): Evolution; Writing And Writers


DARWINISM, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When first the unflowering fern-forest
Last Line: End the new travail of the soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution


DARWINITY, by HERMAN CHARLES MERIVALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Power to thine elbow, thou newest of sciences
Last Line: Born in the sea with a cold in its head?
Subject(s): Creation; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; War


EVOLUTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whew! I got here
Last Line: But I did
Subject(s): Evolution


EVOLUTION, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We seem to exist in a hazardous time
Last Line: Nary a bein' but one.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Evolution


EVOLUTION, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I haven't read as much as some
Last Line: And where we evolute from here.
Subject(s): Evolution


EVOLUTION, by JESSICA NELSON NORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of chaos, dust and flame
Last Line: "look at how the thing turned out!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Reed I., Mrs.
Subject(s): Animals; Evolution; Nature


EVOLUTION, by HARRY THURSTON PECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fresh from the griddle's warm embrace
Last Line: Ambrosial vision — buckwheat cake!
Subject(s): Evolution


EVOLUTION, by LANGDON SMITH    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you were a tadpole and I was a fish
Last Line: Were a tadpole and I was a fish.
Subject(s): Evolution; Mammoths; Prehistoric Animals


EVOLUTION (ACCORDING TO MAETERLINCK), by FRANCES REUBELT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath the earth and hating sun and light
Last Line: And climbs the radiant way to heaven and god.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Evolution; Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets


EVOLUTION: TWO FIGURES WITH MONKEY, by JIM DANIELS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every lightbulb is a hammer
Last Line: Calling us names, everything we deserve
Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Evolution; Paintings And Painters; Philosophy And Philosophers


EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: NATURAL SELECTION, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had found out a gift for my fair
Last Line: I'm certain that darwin is true!
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution


EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: SOLOMON REDIVIVUS, 1886, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What am I? Ah, you know it
Last Line: And I king solomon.
Subject(s): Evolution; Solomon (10th Century B.c.)


EVOLUTIONARY HYMN, by CLIVES STAPLES LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lead us, evolution, lead us
Last Line: Far from pleasant, by our present %standards, though it well may be
Subject(s): Evolution


FLOWER FADETH, by ROBERT C. JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seasons come
Last Line: The words of god remain
Subject(s): Evolution; God; Religion; Time


FROM STONE TO STEEL, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From stone to bronze, from bronze to steel
Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J.
Subject(s): Evolution


FROM STONE TO STEEL, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From stone to bronze, from bronze to steel
Last Line: But whether to the cross or crown, %the path lies through gethsemane
Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J.
Subject(s): Evolution


GRANDEUR, by ROBERT PACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: You've made it clear, charles darwin, why
Last Line: My willingness to let him go
Subject(s): Evolution


HEREDITY, by THOMAS DURLEY LANDELS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the depths we come, out of the dark
Last Line: Can scan the stars and pierce the arching skies!
Subject(s): Evolution


HIMALAYA APE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now listen, evolutionists
Last Line: Or of the missing link.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Pets; Science; Teaching & Teachers; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Scientists; Educators; Professors


HOMO SAPIENS, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine a morning moon the color of cream
Last Line: A residue still too ancient to name
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Creation; Evolution; Skulls; Wilderness


HUNDRED A DAY, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear 19th century! Give me refuge
Last Line: And was not seen as shocking, nor as omen
Subject(s): Evolution; Extinct Animals


LATE CRETACEOUS REVERIE, by STEPHEN SANDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are never very far from %waking on the hillside of a past
Last Line: Where from each plot of bog a whiff of mist rises %as dull footfalls continually plod
Subject(s): Evolution; New Jersey


LAY OF THE TRILOBITE, by MAY EMMA GOLDWORTH KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mountain's giddy height I sought
Last Line: In the silurian seas!'
Subject(s): Evolution; Trilobites


MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE (DEDICATED TO DARWIN AND HUXLEY), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They told him gently he was made / of nicely tempered mud
Last Line: Came from one common germ
Subject(s): "darwin, Charles (1809-1882);evolution;huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895);


MANOKWARI, IRIAN JAYA; IN MEMORIAM, ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dangling rainbows of skipjack swing
Last Line: Of notes, a little twilight music.
Subject(s): Evolution; Indonesia; Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913); Dutch East Indies


MESSAGE OF ONAN, by MICHAEL+(2) HOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the galapagos is a sea turtle who falls in love with a rock. Early in
Last Line: As pubescent maidens is the message of onan, ironically named
Subject(s): Animals; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Galapagos Islands; Science


MILLRACE, by GEORGE BRADLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each april's different: this one saw a spate
Last Line: But mud and some erosion in the race
Subject(s): April; Evolution; Time


MODERNISM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is this modern cult of man
Last Line: Conceived in love for sinful man?
Subject(s): Evolution; Faith; Science; Belief; Creed; Scientists


MRS DARWIN, by CAROL ANN DUFFY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Went to the zoo.
Subject(s): Evolution; Wit & Humor


NAKED HIDES, by RICHARD J. FEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They emerged from tree and bush and forest
Last Line: Stucco on the house planted alongside the lot
Variant Title(s): Untitle
Subject(s): Animals; Change; Evolution; Modern Man


PARADE OF INSTINCT, by LEON VASILYADIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Another link in the chain
Last Line: Perfecting the continuity of the organism
Subject(s): Evolution; Survival


PASSAGE, by MATTHEW JAMES BABCOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I hear that over the last three months
Last Line: Head a purple menagerie of fourteen new finches
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Ecuador; Evolution; Galapagos Islands; Maturity; Teenagers


PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: ON EVOLUTION, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pithecanthropus erectus
Last Line: Could he see us, would reject us
Subject(s): Evolution


PHYSICS OF THE NEW WORLD, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here on the third planet, bulging vaguely like an egg
Last Line: In the thermal energy and simple particles of the cosmic brine
Subject(s): Earth; Evolution; Physics; Planets; Universe


POLLYWOGS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down in maine at camp wohelo
Last Line: "they'll make monkeys out of man."
Subject(s): Animals; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Nature; Science; Wilderness; Scientists


PREHISTORIC SMITH; QUATERNARY EPOCH - POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD, by DAVID LAW PROUDFIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man sat on a rock and sought
Last Line: And wagged his tail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Arkwright, Pegleg
Subject(s): Evolution; Prehistoric Peoples; Tails


PRODUCT OF EVOLUTION, I INVEST IN A MUTUAL FUND, by AMANDA PECOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes I feel like my money's gone to heaven
Last Line: Just as my money, wherever it is, can there be neither forgotten nor loved
Subject(s): Evolution; Money


PROGRESS, by FRANCESCA ABBATE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was there once. It was nightfall
Last Line: It is difficult to imagine %another world
Subject(s): Evolution; Nature


RELAPSE, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I study evolution
Last Line: To the starting-point again.
Subject(s): Evolution


REX STEGOSARUS, by MARVIN E. HARVEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Createous beast, I see against the sky
Last Line: A knowledge of the mighty reptile king.
Subject(s): Dinosaurs; Evolution


SNAIL, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ess enn a eye ell
Last Line: Snail / evolution
Subject(s): Snails; Evolution


STANDING UPRIGHT, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After eons on four feet, our ancestors
Last Line: Also give a heart-splintering groan when they fall
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Evolution


THAT NEXT STEP, by NEIL CITRIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Racing toward education's completion
Last Line: So loose your grip %and grasp the higher rung
Subject(s): Evolution; Hate


THE DREAM, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: My ancestor, in early time
Last Line: Silence of air, alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah
Subject(s): Dreams; Eden; Evolution; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Nightmares


THE TEST OF MANHOOD, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks
Last Line: Resplendent springs, to faith refreshed compels.
Subject(s): Evolution; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Trials


THE THEME AND THE PUPPET, by LETA GRACE BORLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: What if, at length came light through primal gloom
Last Line: The theme lives on, the puppet only lives awhile.
Variant Title(s): We Live Awhile
Subject(s): Evolution; Mankind; Human Race


THE VOICE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Atoms as old as stars
Last Line: Fights with man against death
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Evolution


TO AN EVOLUTIONIST, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good, probing friend, I accept your view
Last Line: We both may be angels, by and by.
Subject(s): Angels; Evolution


TRANSPLANTING: 4. HOT LINKS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And at 36, ada, countess of levelace, will die
Last Line: Savior of her husband, this sweet william
Subject(s): Computers; Evolution


TURTLE SIGHING TREE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eons swallowed whole. Your reptilian unease
Last Line: Remnants. The undoing %that heals
Subject(s): Evolution; Healing; Reptiles; Turtles


VOICE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Atoms as old as stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Evolution


YEAR 48-3:00 A.M., by HERMAN ASARNOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time of the newspaper's thud
Last Line: Parched, panting, %not quite yet us
Subject(s): Evolution