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Last Line: "then be the fool of virtue, not of vice"
Subject(s): Fools;virtue; Idiots


A FOOL THERE WAS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A fool there was, and he made his prayer,
Last Line: (even as you and I!)
Subject(s): Baseball; Fools; Gambling; Sports; Idiots; Wagering; Betting


A FOOTBALL TRAGEDY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "she clung to him, the game was o'er"
Last Line: For I am only half-back
Subject(s): Boredom;fools;football;nonsense; Ennui;idiots


A LUNATIC HAS AN IDEA, by HENRY HARRISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'll gather all my dreams
Last Line: To do the same to me!
Subject(s): Fools; Idiots


A MERRY HEART: A SONG FOR APRIL FIRST, by THELMA LUCILE LULL    Poem Text                    
First Line: With imagined hoofs I spurn the earth
Last Line: For spring is in my spine, o!
Subject(s): April Fool's Day; Comedy; Mermaids & Mermen; Spring; All Fools' Day


A NEW MADRIGAL TO AN OLD MELODY, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As along a dark pine-bough, in slender white mystery
Last Line: For marian, our clear may, so long laid in earth.
Subject(s): Earth; Fools; Grief; Hope; Moon; Seasons; Time; World; Idiots; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


A PSALM OF FOOLISH WISDOM, by LOUISE LEIGHTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lo, we are a nation of wise fools!
Last Line: Before our foolishness destroys the universe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Susan Louise
Subject(s): Fools; United States; Idiots; America


A WILD GOOSE CHASE IN THE WHIPSTICK SCRUB, by H. HEAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old jack gave us a wild goose chase
Last Line: That ever formed a team.
Subject(s): Fools; Gold; Gold Mines & Miners; Hunting; Idiots; Hunters


AMANTES, AMENTES, by HENRY HARRISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lovers, lunatics. There must be truth
Last Line: A thing I realize I ought not to!
Subject(s): Fools; Love - Nature Of; Youth; Idiots


AMBITION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a boy, he wished to be a comedian
Last Line: Dublin would have lost a genuine clown
Subject(s): Ambition; Dublin, Ireland; Fools; Political Campaigns


ANOTHER SONG OF A FOOL, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This great purple butterfly
Last Line: To take the roses for his meat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Wisdom; Learning; Fools


BLANKET NED, by G. A. H.    Poem Text                    
First Line: We were shearing on the bidgee
Last Line: The lamb in the water-pot.
Subject(s): Fools; Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Idiots; Work; Workers


CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think, or hope at least, the coast is clear
Last Line: But to make wits of fools is past your pow'r.
Subject(s): Fools; Ireland; Sparta, Greece; Idiots; Irish


CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met the bishop on the road
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Fools; Love; Men; Old Age; Women; Idiots


CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met the bishop on the road
Last Line: For nothing can be sole or whole %that has not been rent
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Fools; Love; Men; Old Age; Women


DAFFODILS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A battered english actor, hired to act
Last Line: She stands -- the poor fool is no more forlorn.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Daffodils; Flowers; Fools; Marigolds; Plays & Playwrights; Soul; Idiots


DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: ISBRAND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The idiot merriment of thoughtless men
Last Line: Leans on his anchor, grinning like their hope.
Subject(s): Fools; Idiots


EPIGRAM ON THE FIRST OF APRIL, by JOHN WINSTANLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature is rising from the dead
Last Line: Ah! Chloe, when, my charming fair?
Subject(s): April Fool's Day; All Fools' Day


ETERNITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eternity is a wind-blown husk
Last Line: And give me her little hand!
Subject(s): Beauty; Fools; Future Life; Life; Love; Sleep; Idiots; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


FOLLIES OF THE WISE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A man is a fool in his youth, my son
Last Line: Is happy indeed, and wise—so wise!
Subject(s): Fools; Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Wisdom; Women; Idiots; Male-female Relations


FOOL, by C. HATAKEYAMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Describe the fool who knows
Last Line: All the lips' whispers are cool summer showers
Subject(s): Fools


FOOL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day I knew my world is one of the glimpses
Last Line: Then I asked myself if anyone has ever %seen anybody whole.
Subject(s): Fools; Self-criticism; Truth; Writing And Writers


FOOL, by STANLEY MOSS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first days of march
Last Line: Then filled his mouth, gargled, swallowed, and grinned
Subject(s): Fools; March (month); Religion


FOOL'S BURIAL, by HILDEGARDE FILLMORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you had waited, foolish love, to die
Last Line: To lie all naked in a beggar's grave?
Subject(s): Death; Fools; Love; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Idiots


FOOL'S GOLD, by MARGARET CLYDE ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Men have lived and men have died
Last Line: Sand beneath a microscope.
Subject(s): Fools; Men; Idiots


FOOL'S SONG, by THOMAS HOLCROFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When swallows lay their eggs in snow
Last Line: Till when let your wisdom be dumb, etc.
Subject(s): Fools; Singing & Singers; Wisdom; Idiots; Songs


FOOL: A LETTER TO PAUL HANSEN, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When bodhidharma %came from the west, for nine years
Last Line: People who are just like you
Subject(s): Fools; Poetry And Poets


FOOLISHNESSE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In's tusc'lanes, tullie doth confesse
Last Line: No plague ther's like to foolishnesse.
Subject(s): Fools; Idiots


FOOLS INCORIGIBLE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All the old sages, however indeed
Last Line: That, only that, is the use of fools!
Subject(s): Fools; Idiots


FOOLS OF DREAM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You will find them in lone hidings
Last Line: To the deathless fools of dream!
Subject(s): Dreams; Fools; Laughter; Time; Wind; Nightmares; Idiots


HERO, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fool, / put your adventures
Last Line: Roses for your button-hole.
Subject(s): Heroism; Fools


LIZZY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The queen who taught us to read and write
Last Line: Thank god for the brindled cat.'
Subject(s): Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Fools; Independence; Protest, Social


LOVE POSTPONED, by RUTH FITCH BARTLETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I was a fool to put your love away
Last Line: Until I beckoned with a tardy finger.
Subject(s): Fools; Love; Idiots


LUCIFER: PART SIX, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But not unscathed did those gay revellers pass
Last Line: In pride yet haughtier, marched the milky way.
Subject(s): Devil; Fate; Fools; Revolutions; Stars; Time; War; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Destiny; Idiots


MAN MAY TEAR A JEWEL, by BHARTRIHARI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The thoughts of an obstinate fool
Alternate Author Name(s): Bhartrhari
Subject(s): Fools


MAN WHO KEPT CIGARS IN HIS CAP, by JIM HEYNEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One man kept cigars in his cap. When the boys sneaked up behind him
Last Line: Cigars in his cap
Subject(s): Fools; Vengeance


MANDRAKE'S SONG; FRAGMENT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Folly hath now turned out of door
Last Line: Heigho! Foolscap!
Subject(s): Clowns; Fools; Laughter; Writing & Writers; Idiots


MERRY ANDREW, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sly merry andrew, the last southwark fair
Last Line: Drive on (he cried); this fellow is no fool.
Subject(s): Fools; Learning; Sleep; Idiots


MINA DE ORO, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old fools, you know, can't tell where they are
Last Line: Off, just lit out, don't you know: that's %what he said anyhow
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Fools


MUMBLIN' MOTT, by VIRGINIA MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Delightedly devoid of useless brain
Last Line: Who had the sense to be an idiot!
Alternate Author Name(s): Untermeyer, Louis, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fools; Speech Disorders; Idiots; Stuttering; Muteness


ON A FOOL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies the earl of suffolk's fool
Last Line: "dickys enough are still behind, / to laugh at by-and-by"
Subject(s): Epitaphs;fools; Idiots


ON A FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF BEAU MARSH; BETWEEN BUSTS NEWTON AND POPE, by PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Immortal newton never spoke
Last Line: "but folly at full length."
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterfield, 4th Earl Of
Variant Title(s): On Mr. Nash's Present Of His Own Picture
Subject(s): Fools; Statues; Idiots


ON A SCOTCH COXCOMB, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Light lay the earth on billy's breast
Last Line: His scull will prop it under.
Variant Title(s): Epigram On A Noted Coxcomb
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fools; Vanity; Idiots


ON A SWEARING COXCOMB, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here cursing, swearing burton lies
Last Line: "and his last words were ""dem my blood!"
Subject(s): Fools; Idiots


ON EXODUS III. 14. I AM THAT I AM; AN ODE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Man! Foolish man!
Last Line: Which faith had dictated, and angels trod.
Subject(s): Faith; Fools; Mankind; Belief; Creed; Idiots; Human Race


ON SEEING A BUTTERFLY IN THE STREET, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daft gowk, in macaroni dress, / are ye come here to shew your face
Last Line: That dip their spoons in ither's kail.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fools; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Idiots


PROXIMITY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He's the biggest fool in the place,' she said
Last Line: He's nearest to god
Subject(s): Clergy; Fools; God


RASH JUDGMENT, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought I saw a mountain-wall upthrown
Last Line: Said one: dost thou call fools philosophers?
Subject(s): Fools; Philosophy & Philosophers; Idiots


REASON AND THE FOOL, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright reason mocked me from her silver / mask
Last Line: "happy in loss, serene in strife."
Subject(s): Fools; Reason; Idiots; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


REMINDER, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cages are made for wise men who
Last Line: With eyes upon the stars.
Subject(s): Cages; Fools; Freedom; Wisdom; Idiots; Liberty


RETROSPECTION, by ROBERT CLAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I stand with time upon the planet's brink
Last Line: Sang adonais through the kilbourne meadows!
Subject(s): Adonis; April Fool's Day; Mythology - Classical; Youth; All Fools' Day


SARCASTIC, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Loud sir, I am
Last Line: When jackasses are a-braying.
Subject(s): Fools; Jokes; Talk; Idiots


SHIP OF FOOLS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The traveler par excellence
Last Line: It rises and falls to the scent of the sea
Subject(s): Fools; Ships And Shipping


SHIP OF FOOLS, SELS., by ALEXANDER BARCLAY            Poet Analysis            
Subject(s): Fools; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible


SIGNET, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So old, so new, so white, so olive-green
Last Line: May reap the harvest -- for the harvest waits.
Subject(s): Fools; Harvard University; Writing & Writers


SIX WISE FOOLS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twelve had struck. Our talk subsided
Last Line: "I drink to that which makes us one."
Subject(s): Fools; Drinks & Drinking


SONG: 21, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take heed betime lest ye be spied
Last Line: Therefore take heed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Eyes; Fools; Love; Idiots


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 7, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Phillis, this pious talk give o'er
Last Line: And with another damn.
Subject(s): Duplicity; Fools; Hearts; Deceit; Idiots


THE CASE OF ALBERT IRVING WILLIAMSON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, albert irving williamson was innocent / and young
Last Line: Our hero did not win a single solitary pot.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Fools; Gambling; Innocence; Youth; Idiots; Wagering; Betting


THE DELIGHTS OF POSSUM HUNTING, by F. O'B.    Poem Text                    
First Line: A lovely night, and the mon brightly shining
Last Line: "it was an old ants' nest, built round a dead stick!"
Subject(s): Boys; Fools; Hunting; Opossums; Idiots; Hunters; Possums


THE FAMILY FOOL, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! A private buffoon is a light-hearted loon
Last Line: They don't blame you—so long as you're funny!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S.
Subject(s): Family Life; Fools; Humor; Relatives; Idiots


THE FOOL'S ADVENTURE, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know, between all kinds of the world there are
Last Line: Within. I am thy self.
Subject(s): Fools; Adventure & Adventurers; Idiots


THE HILL OF STONES; A LEGEND OF FOUNTAINBLEU, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We two, my guide and I, through dusty ways
Last Line: About the statue of their stony queen.
Subject(s): Chivalry; Courtship; Fools; Love - Unrequited; Idiots


THE IDIOT, by DAVID OSBORNE HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When earth was madly green he lay
Last Line: And hanged himself upon a star.
Subject(s): Fools; Idiots


THE IDIOT AND THE CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: There was a house where an old dame
Last Line: It is no worse!' she said.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Fools; Idiots


THE MAN OF MODE, OR SIR FOPLING FLUTTER: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most modern wits such monstrous fools have shown
Last Line: For no one fool is hunted from the herd.
Subject(s): Etherege, Sir George (1635-1692); Fools; Idiots


THE OLD FOOL IN THE WOOD, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could whisper you all I know
Last Line: "that's what you'd say."
Subject(s): Eyes; Fools; Forests; Grief; Hearts; Idiots; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 230, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All I see are fools
Last Line: Read this over once or twice
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Fools; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Idiots; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 246, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I recently hiked to a temple in the clouds
Last Line: Persisting in idiocy holding onto doubts
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Ignorance; Taoism; Idiots; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 271, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I recall twenty years ago
Last Line: I came out ahead
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Idiots


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 281, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There exists one type of person
Last Line: Discovering his inner mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Laughter; Idiots


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 20, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There exists one type of person
Last Line: And all his wrongs return
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Punishment; Reason; Idiots; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 3, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see someone short on sense
Last Line: And be a fool no more
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Change; Chinese Literature; Fools; Repentance; Idiots; Penitence


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 41, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those who leave home nowadays
Last Line: Flunkies in the end
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Fools; Monks; Idiots


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 43, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By and large the monks I meet
Last Line: Are more perceptive than them
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Ignorance; Monks; Idiots; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 47, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world has its know-it-alls
Last Line: And see the sun no more
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Fools; Hell; Punishment; Buddha; Buddhists; Idiots


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 6, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The black dragon pearl in his left hand
Last Line: Before sensing there's danger ahead
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Fools; Buddha; Buddhists; Idiots


THE TAVERN OF THE FOOLS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew of an honest cleanly inn where men much profit had
Last Line: To hear that cryptic laughter in the tavern of the fools.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Fools; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Idiots


THE TRIPLE FOOL, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am two fools, I know
Last Line: Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee.
Subject(s): Fools; Idiots


THE TWA HERDS, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O a' ye pious godly flocks
Last Line: May a' pack aff.
Subject(s): Fools; Religion; Sheep; Idiots; Theology


THE VILLAGE IDIOT, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No one remembers him anymore, a boy
Last Line: Fogging up in the bathroom, from the wet mirror
Subject(s): Fools; Past; Idiots


TO A FOOL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: If, when thy body's end has come
Last Line: "and missed them with my snapping hand."
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Fools; Idiots


TO A MATHEMATICIAN, by JAN KOCHANOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: He discovered the age of the sun and he knows
Last Line: But he doesn't see that his wife is a whore
Subject(s): Fools; Mathematics


TWO PARABLES FROM 'THE OCEAN OF STORY': 2, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A traveller bought eight cakes for a pana
Last Line: The villagers laughed at him for his ignorance
Variant Title(s): Story Of The Fool And The Cake
Subject(s): Fools


TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 1, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A speckled cat and a tame hare
Last Line: My great responsibilities?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Fools; Pets; Idiots


TWO SONGS OF A FOOL: 2, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I slept on my three-legged stool by the fire
Last Line: The horn's sweet note and the tooth of the hound.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Fools; Pets; Idiots


VERDANT GREEN AND THE CROW, by ROBERT BRUCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Young verdant saddled his horse at the rail
Last Line: "a woebegone, gizzard-wrung, ""r-r-r."
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Deserts; Food & Eating; Fools; Idiots


VILLAGE IDIOT, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No one remembers him anymore, a boy
Last Line: Fogging up in the bathroom, from the wet mirror
Subject(s): Fools; Past


WAR, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fools, fools, fools
Last Line: Which was your enemy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Fools; War; Idiots


WEIGHTS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother said I was a fool
Last Line: I said of my brother.
Subject(s): Fools; Idiots


WHEN FOOLS DISPUTE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A trickle of dawn insinuated itself
Subject(s): Fools; Idiots