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Last Line: May echo forth the hunting of the fox
Subject(s): Foxes;hunting; Hunters


A BESTIARY: THE FOX, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "a wild beast there is, I trow"
Last Line: Yet he purposed to slay our lord
Subject(s): Foxes


A DREAM OF FOXES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dream of foxes
Last Line: Safe through the generous fields
Subject(s): Dreams; Foxes; Nightmares


A FABLE FROM PHAEDRUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fox an actors vizard found
Last Line: Thou specious head without a brain?'
Subject(s): Fables; Foxes; Allegories


ALL FOXES, by ROBERT LIDDELL LOWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: All foxes in thier sapience
Subject(s): Foxes


BY THE FOUNTAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There, by the fountain, where, a child, I cried
Last Line: The stranger and the demon walk side by side
Subject(s): Devil; Foxes; Memory; Self


CAPE COD FOX, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday it foraged in the dunes
Last Line: Footpads that keeps you on his mind
Subject(s): Foxes


CHILDREN'S LACE-MAKING SONG OR TELL: THE FOX, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nineteen miles as I sat high
Last Line: The fox did look, the fox did see %I saw the hole to bury me
Subject(s): Foxes


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 63. 'FOX', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fox on the prowl, on the prowl
Last Line: That person wears nothing at all
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Foxes


COMING OF FOX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One evening I return
Last Line: Into long bright flags %of fur
Subject(s): Foxes


DANCE OF DEATH: HUNTSMAN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blew %in the cold furrow
Last Line: Et, ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Animals; Foxes; Hunting


DEAR FOX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not my habit
Last Line: From somebody else's life / any time
Subject(s): Foxes; Humanity


DEAR FOX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not my habit
Last Line: From somebody else's life %any time
Subject(s): Foxes; Humanity


DREAM OF FOXES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dream of foxes
Last Line: Safe through the generous fields
Subject(s): Dreams; Foxes


FABLES: 1ST SER. 29. THE FOX AT THE POINT OF DEATH, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fox, in life's extreme decay
Last Line: A chicken too might do me good.
Subject(s): Foxes


FEBRUARY: THE BOY BREUGHEL, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The birches stand in their beggar's row
Last Line: A sunrise. The snow.
Subject(s): Animals; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Foxes; Rabbits; Red (color); Violence; White (color); Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Hares


FOUR LITTLE FOXES, by LEW SARETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Speak gently, spring, and make no sudden sound
Last Line: Step softly.
Subject(s): Foxes; Spring


FOX, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shepherd on his journey heard with nigh
Last Line: He lived to chase the hounds another day
Subject(s): Foxes


FOX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who / can blame her for hunkering
Last Line: Not feeding, not being fed?
Subject(s): Foxes; Hunger; Winter


FOX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who %can blame her for hunkering
Last Line: Not feeding, not being fed?
Subject(s): Foxes; Hunger; Winter


FOX, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father said: fox took another chicken last night
Subject(s): Foxes


FOX, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After we peeled and dipped and sucked
Last Line: However naked and heart-rending, however %impotent and wild
Subject(s): Animals; Childhood Memories; Foxes


FOX AND THE WOLF, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A vox gon out of pe wode go
Last Line: For he ne fond nones kunnes blisse %ne hof dintes forzeuenessse
Subject(s): Foxes; Wolves


FOX DANCING, by SUZANNE KNOWLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tall as a foxglove spire, in tiptoe
Last Line: With the fox dancing in the desert %study to be whole
Subject(s): Foxes


FOX FARM, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the pasture a shire
Last Line: Woman's neck.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Foxes; Horses; Wilderness; Agriculture; Farmers


FOX IN THE MORNING, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grey fox, so called
Subject(s): Foxes


FOX-HUNTING; A SONG, by LEONARD HOWARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come rise, lads, and mount, the brisk fox-hunters cry
Last Line: And fox-hunting flourish a thousand years hence.
Subject(s): Foxes; Hunting; Hunters


HUNGRY FOX, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A fox went out in a hungry plight
Last Line: And the little ones picked the bones - o
Subject(s): Foxes


LEAVING FOX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So many fuckless days and nights
Last Line: Until something human comes
Subject(s): Foxes


LEAVING FOX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So many fuckless days and nights
Last Line: Until something human comes
Subject(s): Foxes


LIKE NO OTHER, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I followed my road,
Subject(s): Foxes


LITTLE MAN FOX, by J. V. BRUMMELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I find him north of the barn, immigrant
Last Line: Moon, her friend, cannot console her
Subject(s): Foxes; Mankind


MODEREEN RUE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Och, modereen rue, you little red rover
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Foxes


MR. FOX' SONG FROM NEAR DERBY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh read me this riddle and read it aright
Last Line: Too little for a horse, too big for a bee, %I saw it was a hole just fit for me
Subject(s): Foxes


ON A GREEN SLOPE: A FAMILY, by MARGARET AHO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of foxes. Then a sudden
Last Line: Bodily, has been in- %vented
Subject(s): Foxes


ON GLENRIDDEL'S FOX BREAKING HIS CHAIN, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, liberty, thou art my theme
Last Line: Since we to scoundrels owe our freedom.
Subject(s): Foxes; Freedom; Liberty


ONE YEAR LATER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What if, / then, / entering my room
Last Line: Of regret?
Subject(s): Foxes; Humanity


ONE YEAR LATER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What if, %then, %entering my room
Last Line: The room, the bed, the poetry, %of regret
Subject(s): Foxes; Humanity


OUTFOXED, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red foxes are not allowed
Last Line: All brought to by fox news
Subject(s): Foxes; Sex; Racism


PLEA FOR A CAPTIVE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woman with the caught fox
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Foxes; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


PLEA FOR A CAPTIVE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woman with the caught fox
Last Line: Kill it at once or let it go
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Foxes


RED FOX, by STAN PROPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was dumb, you know
Last Line: Red foxes mate for life. %somebody goofed!
Subject(s): Foxes


RED FOX AT DAWN, by DAHLOV IPCAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fox glides like a flame through frozen fields of morning
Last Line: On feet of night
Subject(s): Animals; Foxes


TELLING OUR STORIES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fox came every evening to my door
Last Line: The terrible stories she could tell
Subject(s): Foxes; Poetry & Poets


TELLING OUR STORIES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fox came every evening to my door
Last Line: The terrible stories she could tell
Subject(s): Foxes; Poetry And Poets


THE AVENGED CROW, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: You have all heard the tale of the fox and the crow
Last Line: "in return, he lies there, carried off by disease!"
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Death; Foxes; Revenge; Story-telling; Dead, The


THE BLACK FOX OF SALMON RIVER, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How cold, how beautiful, how bright
Last Line: Of the black fox of salmon brook.
Subject(s): Foxes


THE COMING OF FOX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One evening I return
Last Line: "into long bright flags
Subject(s): Foxes


THE CROW AND THE FOX, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A crow sat perched upon an oak
Last Line: Swore, but too late, he shouldn't catch him twice.
Subject(s): Fables; Foxes; Allegories


THE DREAM OF FEBRUARY, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the moonlight,
Subject(s): Hunting; Death - Animals; Foxes


THE FOX, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A quest brought a gray fox to the field behind my house
Last Line: And the long brown yard stretching toward the gray house.
Subject(s): Foxes; Sickness; Illness


THE FOX AND THE GRAPES, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fox of gascon, though some say of norman descent
Subject(s): Foxes; Grapes


THE FOX AND THE GRAPES, by GAIUS JULIUS PHAEDRUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An hungry fox with fierce attack
Last Line: Who lessen what they can't come at.
Subject(s): Fables; Foxes; Grapes; Allegories


THE FOX WENT OUT ONE FROSTY NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: "and the young ones picked the bones, oh"
Subject(s): Foxes


THE GRAY FOX, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone I know is dying, at seventeen
Last Line: Watch him, ten yards away, unafraid.
Subject(s): Death; Foxes; Nature; Youth; Dead, The


THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: NOVEMBER. ACROSS COUNTRY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: November's here. Once more the pink we don
Subject(s): Foxes; Hunting; Hunters


THE THOUGHT-FOX, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I imagine this midnight moment's forest
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Foxes


THOUGHT-FOX, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I imagine this midnight moment's forest
Last Line: The window is starless still; the clock ticks, %the page is printed
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Foxes


TO A FOX-CUB, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You slipped through the hedgerow's high tangle of bramble
Last Line: To lose you, or eat you, a county away!
Subject(s): Foxes


VIXEN, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the taller wood with ivy hung
Last Line: And start and snap at blackbirds bouncing by %to fight and catch the great white butterfly
Subject(s): Foxes


WHERE THE FOX GATHERS, by CONSTANCE ROWELL MASTORES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Purple darkness %hangs on these hills waiting
Last Line: Would it be closeness, really, or %darkness permeable, light breaking in
Subject(s): Foxes; Light


WOMAN HOLDING A FOX, by DAVID YEZZI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Buried inside, page three, below the fold
Last Line: Up to a time when memories of these no longer serve
Subject(s): Foxes; Women