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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EVOLUTION Matches Found: 65 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 |
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