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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "IMITATION OF ANACREON'S GRASSHOPPER, APPLIED TO MR. T. S.", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "hail, happy little animal"
Last Line: And nearly to the gods allied
Subject(s): "anacreon (582-485 B.c.);grasshoppers;poetry & Poets;sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738);


A SOLILOQUY; OCCASIONED BY THE CHIRPING OF A GRASSHOPPER, by WALTER HARTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Happy insect! Ever blest
Last Line: Thou art starved, and so am I!
Subject(s): Grasshoppers; Insects; Life; Bugs


AN EMBLEM OF THE SHORTNESS OF HUMAN PLEASURE; TO THE GRASSHOPPER, by SAMUEL SAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little insect! That on high
Last Line: But the winter long remains.
Subject(s): Grasshoppers; Life; Time


AUTUMN'S DAY, by RON PADGETT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rilke walks toward a dime. I saw
Last Line: Wander restlessly when leaves are blown.
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 5, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grasshoppers'wings
Last Line: Be fruitful and grow rife
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Grasshoppers


EXPLANATION OF THE GRASSHOPPER, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grasshopper, the grasshopper %I will explain to you
Last Line: The fairies' kangaroo
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Variant Title(s): The Grasshoppe
Subject(s): Fairies; Grasshoppers


GRASSHOPPER, by ANACREON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grasshopper thrice-happy! Who
Last Line: Comes the gods to imitate
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


GRASSHOPPER, by VELIMIR VLADIMIROVICH KHLEBNIKOV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wingletting with the golden scrawl
Last Line: O, illuminate!
Alternate Author Name(s): Vladimirovich, Viktor
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


GRASSHOPPER, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: G %g
Last Line: R %r
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D.
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


GRASSHOPPER, by RON PADGETT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's funny when the mind thinks about the psyche
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


GRASSHOPPER, by FREDERIC WANDELERE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every autumn the same garden
Last Line: Of grass and greenery, spread on a handkerchief
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


GRASSHOPPER GREEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grasshopper green is a comical chap
Last Line: Summer's the time for fun
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


GRASSHOPPER'S SONG, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: A scraping sound: the grasshopper
Last Line: Enough for all. - amen, amen!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


GRASSHOPPERS, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grasshoppers go in many a thrumming spring
Last Line: He springs, that bends until they touch the ground.
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


GRASSHOPPERS, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This year they are exactly the size
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


GRASSHOPPERS, by CHAD WOODY    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are the quiet simple hunger
Last Line: They are wide-eyed blind %and turning dustward
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


IN OUR FARTHEST FIELD, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The arrival of ten billion %grasshoppers
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Fields; Grasshoppers; Nature


LINES ON A GRASSHOPPER (BY A GRANGER NATURALIST), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I've got him, at last, in the focus"
Last Line: Whenever he lit at their gate
Subject(s): Grasshoppers;insects;nature; Bugs


NO THANKS: 13, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: R-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
Last Line: Rea(be)rran(com)gi(e)ngly %grasshopper
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Animals; Grasshoppers


NOVEMBER COLD. HEY, GRASSHOPPER!, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Weighed nothing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Cold; Grasshoppers; Nature; November


ODE: THE GRASSHOPPER, by ANACREON    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou, of all creation blest
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


ON THE GRASSHOPPER, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy songster, perched above
Last Line: Godlike in its kind as thou?
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


ON THE GRASSHOPPER, by ANACREON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On thy verdant throne elate
Last Line: Free from pain, and flesh, and blood, %thou'rt almost a little god
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


ONE GUESS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He has dust in his eyes and a fan for a wing
Last Line: And a mouthful of dye stuff instead of a sting
Variant Title(s): My What-is-i
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


ROBINSON ROAD, by ROGER FIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: They come & they go
Last Line: The sweet white clover in the ditch %& the grasshopper
Subject(s): Grasshoppers; Nature; Roads


TEN MILLS: ONE GUESS, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He has dust in his eyes and a fan for a wing
Last Line: And a mouthful of dy stuff instead of sting
Variant Title(s): My What-is-it
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


THE GRASSHOPPER, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy insect, what can be
Last Line: Thou retirest to endless rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


THE GRASSHOPPER, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What joy you take in making hotness hotter
Last Line: Forgotten of all time.
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


THE GRASSHOPPER, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Voice of the summer wind
Last Line: Lighting on the golden blooms?
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


THE GRASSHOPPER, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shuttle of the sunburnt grass
Last Line: Fifer of the elfin men!
Subject(s): Grasshoppers


THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poetry of earth is never dead
Last Line: The grasshopper's among some grassy hills.
Variant Title(s): On The Grasshopper And Cricket
Subject(s): Crickets; Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Insects; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs


THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green little vaulter in the sunny grass
Last Line: In doors and out, summer and winter, mirth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Variant Title(s): To Grasshopper And Cricket;on The Grasshopper And Cricket;to The Grasshopper And The Cricket
Subject(s): Crickets; Grasshoppers; Insects; Bugs


THE GRASSHOPPER; TO MY NOBLE FRIEND MR. CHARLES COTTON, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Thou that swingst upon the waving ear [or, hair]
Last Line: That wants himself is poor indeed.
Subject(s): Cotton, Charles (1630-1687); Friendship; Grasshoppers


THE GROATSWORTH OF WIT: A CONCEITED FABLE OF THE OLD COMEDIAN AESOP, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An ant and a grasshopper, walking together on a
Last Line: Without remedy.
Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c); Ants; Fables; Grasshoppers; Insects; Allegories; Bugs


THE SUMMER DAY, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who made the world?
Subject(s): Grasshoppers; Life


TO A GRASSHOPPER, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Frail truant, from your pleasant fare
Last Line: The cold indifference of stone.
Subject(s): Grasshoppers