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First Line: Peerless yet hapless maid of q!
Last Line: Her dirge and leg
Subject(s): Alphabets;bees;death;funerals;insects;language; "beekeeping;dead, The;burials;bugs;words;vocabulary;


A BEE-KEEPER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When bees come hither in the fair springtide
Last Line: The neighbour of the mountain-peak is dead
Subject(s): Bees;insects; Beekeeping;bugs


A BESTIARY: THE ANT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the ant is mighty, tho' small"
Last Line: "now, and on the last great day, / when we be in need"
Subject(s): Ants;insects; Bugs


A BESTIARY: THE SPIDER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some things created they be
Last Line: When he worketh upon him ill
Subject(s): Insects;spiders; Bugs


A BLACK PATCH ON LUCASTA'S FACE (1), by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dull as I was, to think that a court fly
Last Line: But the sweet little bees large monument.
Subject(s): Bees; Faces; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


A CONSERVATIVE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The garden beds I wandered by
Last Line: Into his chrysalis.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


A DIET OF WORMS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The caterpillars met one day
Last Line: For dinner!
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


A DREAM (1), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed I was a spider
Last Line: And devoured them one by one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Insects; Spiders; Nightmares; Bugs


A FABLE, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said a little boy to a honey bee
Last Line: Said the honey bee to the little boy.
Subject(s): Bees; Boys; Fables; Insects; Play; Beekeeping; Allegories; Bugs


A GARDEN IDYL, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With sagest craft arachne worked
Last Line: A solitary filament.
Subject(s): Insects; Mythology; Spiders; Bugs


A MORE ANCIENT MARINER, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The swarthy bee is a buccaneer
Last Line: With the mercury at zero.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


A NATURE-LOVER PASSES, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bees, go tell the things he treasured
Last Line: Bid his loved wild things befriend him!
Subject(s): Bees; Death; Insects; Beekeeping; Dead, The; Bugs


A RAINBOW FOUNDATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once a spider built a cobweb on a rainbow bright and gay
Last Line: "with foundations not so showy, but more firm and permanent!"
Subject(s): Insects; Rainbows; Spiders; Bugs


A SLEEPING BEAUTY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An alien wind that blew and blew
Last Line: As he turned to go -- yet, pausing, gazed?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Insects; Nature; Wind; Bugs


A SLEEPY SONG, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The butterfly swings on the flower alseep
Last Line: Sleepy time, sleepy time now!
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Sleep; Bugs


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


A SONG, by S. P. (19TH CENTURY)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, the hopper grass is clattering and flying all the day
Last Line: And the katydid is chirping all night long.
Subject(s): Insects; Bugs


A SONG OF A GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What a thing a garden is
Last Line: To bid grow, to increase!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Insects; Medicine; Quiet Life; Beekeeping; Nightmares; Bugs; Drugs, Prescription


A SONG OF THE SEASON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am a moth ball
Last Line: But out!
Subject(s): Animals;environment;insects;moths; Environmental Protection;ecology;conservation;bugs


A SUMMER NIGHT IN THE BEEHIVE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little bee returns with evening's gloom
Last Line: Another day of honey has begun!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


A WOOD ORCHID, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "a butterfly, wing-weary, came to find"
Last Line: Of pink flushed wings -- and found them rooted there
Subject(s): Butterflies;insects; Bugs


ACTING ON A TIP, by JAMES TATE            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: We went to the bug-eating state
Subject(s): Camping; Insects; Camps; Summer Camps; Bugs


ACTING ON A TIP, by JAMES TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We went to the bug-eating state
Last Line: They announced in unison, 'we are camped here.'
Subject(s): Camping; Insects


AFFINITY FOR BEES, by VIRGINIA MCGUIRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lark liked to be barefoot in the garden
Last Line: To be intimate with roses
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Insects; Roses


AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF, by ISAAC WATTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How doth the little busy bee / improve each shining hour
Last Line: Some good account at last.
Variant Title(s): The Busy Bee
Subject(s): Bees; Children; Insects; Beekeeping; Childhood; Bugs


ALL DAY: WINDOW-BARS, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I lie still
Last Line: From dawn to dark!
Subject(s): Birds; Insects; Windows; Bugs


ALL OF THE SNAILS ARE STARTING A RACE, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Give them a minute, and see if they budge
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


ALLEGORY OF THE BEES, by PAUL LAKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Affectless drones, observing the wild dance
Last Line: While honey-drudgers leave in steady lines %tracking the legend to tis honeyed source
Subject(s): Bees; Honeycombs; Insects; Nature


ALPHABESTIARY: A, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A is for ant
Last Line: Practically %forever
Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Ants; Insects


AMPHITYRON, OR THE TWO SOSIAS: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The laboring bee, when his sharp sting is gone
Last Line: To make fine fools of you, and all your parts.
Subject(s): Bees; Fame; Insects; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Beekeeping; Reputation; Bugs; Dramatists; Stage Life


AN AUGUST MIDNIGHT, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A shaded lamp and a waving blind
Last Line: They know earth-secrets that know not I.
Subject(s): Insects; Bugs


ANCESTRY, by NANCY BAILEY MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In tiny adelstrop still buzz the bees
Last Line: And honey crystallizes on the shelf to tease
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects


ANOTHER SPRING, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Over the breadboard
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Nature; Spring


ANT, by ZOE BAILEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black is his color
Last Line: Towards some crack in an enormous ark
Subject(s): Animals; Ants; Insects


ANT, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ant has made himself illustrious
Last Line: If you were full of formic acid?
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


ANT AND THE THERAPIST, by GAIL MARTIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We know you hate us. We startle
Last Line: And tunneling toward darkness
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Psychiatry


ANT HILL, by CYNTHIA ZARIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sand pyramid, size of a child, each september
Last Line: Turned violet as its shadow
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


ANT MANSION, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rubbing of the sleeping bag on my ear made me dream
Last Line: My father's labor who sees? It is in a pasture somewhere %not yet found by a walker
Variant Title(s): Finding An Old Ant Mansio
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


ANT WORLD: THE LEAF-CUTTERS, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cross-sectioned and cubed
Last Line: Leaf bit by leaf bit
Subject(s): Ants; Farm Life; Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Insects; Leaves; Nature; Trees


ANTS, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We tunnel through your noonday out to you
Last Line: Carry at least her parasites below
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


ANTS, by DAISY WRIGHT FIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I read of a man who was tied down
Last Line: By the little things.
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Wright
Subject(s): Ants; Duty; Insects; Women; Bugs


ANTS, by KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I stood in my mother's kitchen
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


ANTS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Acrobatic %antish %antics
Subject(s): Insects


ANTS AND OTHERS, by ADRIEN STOUTENBURG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Their spare, frantic sentry comes
Last Line: Of loaves and fishes everywhere
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


ANTS CRAWL, by ELEANOR SCHICK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: To them
Subject(s): Animals; Ants; Insects


ARACHNE, by JODY ALIESAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She was a weaver %what she made was too perfect
Last Line: Climbing over warp ties on my loom %they're harmless %but they distract me %and I make mistakes
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


ARACHNE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I watch her in the corner there
Last Line: But day by day I spin my shroud.
Subject(s): Fate; Insects; Spiders; Destiny; Bugs


ARACHNE, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs


ARACHNE, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves
Last Line: Male spiders must not be too early slain
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


ARACHNE, by DASHKA SLATER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, arachne, how many times you appeared in corners
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


ARACHNOTATIONS, by LAUREN SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the days of our father's spiderhood
Last Line: The spider calls for each of us in our own names
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


ARIEL'S SONG (2), FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the bee sucks, there suck I
Last Line: Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Elves; Bugs


ARMY ANTS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Left %right %left %right
Last Line: We miss your place
Subject(s): Insects


ARRIVAL OF THE BEE BOX, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ordered this, this clean wood box
Last Line: The box is only temporary
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


ARRIVAL OF THE BEE BOX, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I ordered this, this clean wood box
Last Line: The box is only temporary
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


ATHOLE BROSE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Willie an' I cam doun by blair
Last Line: And in by tullibardine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Bees; Gardens & Gardening; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 11, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like some drowsy bayaderes
Last Line: Is a duel with a bug!
Subject(s): Insects; Love; Bugs


AUTUMN DUSK, AND IN THE GRASS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Drain off the light
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Autumn; Insects; Nature; Seasons; Spiders


AWAKENING, by WILLIAM WANTLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I found the bee as it fumbled about the ground
Last Line: I stared, I was appalled, I was overwhelmed %with responsibility, and I knew not where to %begin
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BAGATELLES: 1, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wanton bee that suck'd the rose
Last Line: Beyond the dying day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Love; Roses; Beekeeping; Bugs


BALLADE OF THE BEES OF TREBIZOND, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There blooms a flower in trebizond
Last Line: To taste that honey is to die.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


BAZOOKA, by WILLIAM HARMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bee is busy as can be with its
Last Line: Worth less than many a tepid epitaph
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Reason


BEASTS, SELS., by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ant-heaps furthest in
Last Line: And they get the better of deepest winters %in another deep
Subject(s): Animals; Ants; Insects


BEAUTIFUL WINGS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful wings that beat the void
Last Line: Builds heaven overhead.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Poetry & Poets; Bugs


BEDBUGS, by ELIZABETH AOKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: This kind of wiggly, lovable pest
Last Line: Your doctor advises you make the bloodsucker %uncomfortable
Subject(s): Beds; Insects


BEE, by ENRIQUE ALVAREZ HENAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wee sovereign of the forest dense and gray
Last Line: And white wax for the tapers of the dead
Subject(s): Bees; Forests; Honey; Insects


BEE, by JOHN FANDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A zig-zag bee, zzz and zzz-ing, came
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEE, by HENRY HAWKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: To bethlehem's silly shed, methinks I see %the virgin hasten like a busy bee
Last Line: She was the bee, the hive her sacred womb
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEE AND THE LILY, by THOMAS WESTWOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Buzz! Went the bee, with a merry din
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEE IN AMBER, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of his life's labors as a collector
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEE MEETING, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the
Last Line: Whose is that long white box in the grove, what have they %acoomplished, why am I cold
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Fear; Insects


BEE SETS SAIL, by KATHARINE DUNCAN MORSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind blows east, the wind blows storm
Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Insects


BEE SONG, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We lie in a maze of bee clover
Last Line: Wild %bee %sighs
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEE! I'M EXPECTING YOU!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or better, be with me, %yours, fly
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1035; Poem: 98
Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Imagination; Insects


BEE'S BURIAL, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Encased & shining in a bead of amber
Last Line: Coffined in honey - as any bee could wish
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEE, THE ANT, AND THE SPARROW, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dears, 'tis said in days of old
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Sparrows


BEE-MASTER, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep
Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEE; TO GRANCIS DE MIOMANDRE, by PAUL VALERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What and how keen and mortal soever
Last Line: By that tiniest golden alert %for lack of which love dies orsleeps!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A garden of mouthings. Purple, scarlet-speckled, black
Last Line: Under the coronal of sugar roses %the queen bee marries the winter of your year
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Fathers And Daughters; Insects


BEES, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bees are black, with gilt surcingles
Last Line: Jugs - a universe's fracture %could not jar or spill
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1405; Poem: 142
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEES, by KATE FARRELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I took it for years
Last Line: Soft and murmuring %with the hum of wings
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEES, by MONK GIBBON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then to the bees one said
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEES, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Sipping pods %like cups of tea
Subject(s): Insects


BEES, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After a bear ransacked their hive, strewing wood, wax
Last Line: The bees swarmed the locked doors, fireplace screen, floor. The house %hummed
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Nature


BEES, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A swarm of bees in may
Last Line: Is not worth a fly.
Variant Title(s): Hampshire Bee-keeping Rhyme
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


BEES, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every bee
Last Line: And partly %- buzz
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEES, by LOLA RIDGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bees over the gooseberry bushes
Last Line: If you venture so high in the blue air
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEES, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had to do it. %they charged and stung the carpenter
Last Line: Conceals and covers us and our congenial sleep
Subject(s): Bees; Death; Flowers; Insects; Murder


BEES, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bees don't care about the snow
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEES, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: That the bees were born in the corpse of the injured animal
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


BEES, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That the bees were born in the corpse of the injured animal
Last Line: Into sweetness, and the dark into the sun, and the bees %thus born
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEES BEFORE WINTER, by MERRILL MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: His bees went very far that night
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BEES IN CLOVER; A SONG, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the dewy slopes of morning
Last Line: Falls in tune?
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


BEETLE, by EDITH KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The other day, to my surprise
Subject(s): Beetles; Insects


BEETLE LIGHT; FOR DANIEL HILLEN, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hornets collect on the side of the sun
Last Line: The exterminator. Very soon they will die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Extermination & Exterminators; Insects; Light; Poetry & Poets; Bugs


BEETLES, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Oblivious to all they pass
Subject(s): Insects


BESTIARY / BESTIARIO, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could speak with birds
Last Line: What was the name of the cat
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Nature


BIG TOMATO - JUICY, FAT, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Gonna make a major splat
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


BIOLOGY LESSON, by JR. JOHN D. ENGLE                       
First Line: Watch a caterpillar %eating his way
Last Line: Freedom, wings!
Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; Caterpillars; Insects


BIOMASS OF ANTS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of small homes, hard work, big women
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Nature


BIRDS AND BUGS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: What to do next?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Insects; Nature


BLACK LEG OF A SPIDER, by JOHN JOSEPH MCKERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lies in the dead center
Last Line: That litters every stop sign in omaha
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


BLACK WIDOW SPIDER, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a widow
Last Line: I don't wear blue denim
Subject(s): Insects


BLIND HUBER (12), by NICK FLYNN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus transfixed, stare blank at one
Last Line: But not as much as I had hoped
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


BLUE BUTTERFLY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lucy paused for the blue butterfly
Last Line: Is whispering in my lonely walk anew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Butterflies; England; Insects; Landscape; English; Bugs


BLUE-BUTTERFLY DAY, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is blue-butterfly day here in spring
Last Line: Where wheels have freshly sliced the april mire.
Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


BLUETICKS, by EDMUND AUGUST    Poem Source                    
First Line: They were blueticks, coon dogs
Last Line: The fossils of feelings and sense - %excoriating one plat of earth
Subject(s): Insects


BOINK! 'SOMEONE SAID SOMEONE FOUND SOMETHING DEAD!', by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Boink! 'it's a skin, but there's nobody in!'
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


BOOK LICE, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was born in a
Last Line: To attract
Subject(s): Insects


BROWNY BEE, by IRENE F. PAWSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little mr. Browny bee
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BUGS ARE DIGGING - SCOOP IT OUT, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Dung balls rolling - move 'em out!
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


BUMBLE BEE, D. D., by ORTHA L. WILNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside a haughty fleur-de-lis
Last Line: To the weed of gold.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


BUMBLEBEE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Too many bs but life is like that
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Insects; Nature


BUMBLEBEE, by EDNA D. WOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bublebee, I'm sure I like you
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


BUMMER BEETLE, ON HIS BACK, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Pity, pity bummer beetle
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


BUT DEAN,, by MELISSA HUSEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I say it is love. The ladybugs
Last Line: When I say it is love? That love, love, love %cannot stop?
Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Love


BUTTERFLIES, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Butterflies have no wings
Last Line: So that the butterfly shall be harder to swallow
Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Survival; Wings


BUTTERFLIES, by SAINT-PAUL ROUX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun
Last Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Paul Pierre; Roux, P0l
Subject(s): Angels; Butterflies; Colors; Insects; Spring; Bugs


BUTTERFLIES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Frail travellers, deftly flickering over the flowers
Last Line: To know but this, the phantom glare of day.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


BUTTERFLY, by SUSAN ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fur on your wings makes you a lion
Last Line: Underneath the leaves of the aspens. %green drunken curses. The sheep graze so quickly
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


BUTTERFLY, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the world is drowning in light and song
Last Line: We'll put down together with a kiss
Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


BUTTERFLY, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those things %which you so laughingly call
Last Line: They give %my body
Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


BUTTERFLY, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To remind itself of something
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature


BUTTERFLY, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bird of the moths! That radiant winf
Last Line: The upper air, the fields that shine, %for ever in the light of god
Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


BUTTERFLY, by KIM YONGT'AE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Past grassland
Last Line: A piece of cloth enendingly transparent
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


BUTTERFLY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward, strong beyond the garden wall
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


BUTTERFLY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward, strong beyond the garden wall
Last Line: It is enough! I saw you vanish into air
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


BUTTERFLY, by ALICE FREEMAN PALMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hold you at last in my hand
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


BUTTERFLY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of living creatures most I prize
Last Line: When mother leans to say good night
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


BUTTERFLY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of living creatures most I prize
Last Line: When mother leans to say good night
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


BUTTERFLY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Butterfly, butterfly, sipping the sand
Last Line: That sand-filtered water tastes better to you?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


BUTTERFLY, by TSUBOI SHIGEJI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the sample room
Last Line: So bright that it brought tears
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


BUTTERFLY (1), by HILDA CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Butterfly, / I like the way your wear your wings
Last Line: And evening murmurs by.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


BUTTERFLY (2), by HILDA CONKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I walked through my garden
Last Line: "I have to go the opposite way."
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


BUTTERFLY AND THE CATERPILLAR, by JOSEPH LAUREN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Butterflies; Caterpillars; Insects


BUTTERFLY FARM, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bit absurd perhaps - these exotica of steaming
Last Line: The wholeness of them, the ephemeral %lesson of their lives
Subject(s): Butterflies; Farm Life; Heaven; Insects


BUTTERFLY FROM SEOUL, by SONGDAECHUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A butterfly from seoul breezed through
Last Line: Of plum, he found no gesture for his joy
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


BUTTERFLY HAS FLOWN AWAY, by HWANG SOG'U    Poem Source                    
First Line: Into the yellow canna
Last Line: Unoccupied as a house %except by a lonely girl
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


BUTTERFLY LAUGHTER, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the middle of our porridge plate
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Butterflies; Grandparents; Insects; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Bugs


BUTTERFLY LAUGHTER, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the middle of our porridge plate
Last Line: And perch on grandmother's lap
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Butterflies; Grandparents; Insects


BUTTERFLY MIND, by STEPHEN CRAIG KNAUTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little wood satyr
Last Line: Here in the gragile confection of now
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Reason


BUTTERFLY ON ROCK, by IRVING LAYTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The large yellow wings, black-fringed
Last Line: And brought my hand down on the butterfly %and felt the rock move beneath my hand
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


BUTTERFLY SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly
Last Line: The clouds sprinkle down the rain
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


BUTTERFLY WINGS, by LOUISE CRENSHAW RAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some far off summer day, when you shall see
Last Line: Oh, magic touch of dusky velvet wings!
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Magic; Poppies; Bugs


BUTTERFLY'S BRAIN, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Guides her to mexico
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animal Intelligence; Butterflies; Insects; Nature


BUTTERFLY'S DREAM, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A tulip, just opened, had offered to hold
Last Line: But he crept under covert and died
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


BUTTERFLY'S NUMIDIAN GOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: As if it undone
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1387; Poem: 139
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


CABBAGE BUTTERFLY, by HENRI COLE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something like volcanic ash wafted in air.
Last Line: To my brow, it was lighter than a dollar, %yet nourished me like manna where I stood.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


CALENDAR, by ERIKA MAILMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the cellar she fingers the jars of honey
Last Line: One urges forget me I was never here %and the speaker forgets who spoke
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Seasons; Time


CATERPILLAR, by HELEN BURLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The grass has come alive
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects


CATERPILLAR, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Intent upon its own career %what use has it for me
Variant Title(s): How Soft A Caterpillar Steps; Poem: 1448; Poem: 152
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects


CATERPILLAR, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She eats eight leaves at least
Last Line: And checks out: madame butterfly - %how super!
Subject(s): Insects


CATERPILLAR, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: W/ round black eyes %big & furry it goes
Last Line: & it is looking at me %on its way down %down down %2 years old I am %& surely %surely it is so
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects


CATERPILLAR, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I find among the poems of schiller
Last Line: It's utterly speechless, songless, whistleless
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects


CATERPILLAR, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I creep upon the ground, and the children
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects


CATERPILLAR'S APOLOGY FOR EATING A FAVORITE GLADIOLUS, by CHARLES WILLIAM DALMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Confuse me not with impious things
Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects


CATERPILLARS, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of caterpillars fabre tells how day after day
Last Line: In a heaving ring returning the same regrets.
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


CHIPPEWA MUSIC: THE SONG OF BUTTERFLY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the coming heat
Last Line: I stood there
Subject(s): Butterflies;insects; Bugs


CHRYSALIS DIARY, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Novenber 13: %cold told me
Last Line: I dreamt of flying
Subject(s): Diaries; Insects


CICADAS, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Afternoon, mid-august
Last Line: Joyful noise!
Subject(s): Insects


CIGARILLO, by CATE MARVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The visit of a body. Ants gathered sugar
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs


CIGARILLO, by CATE MARVIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The visit of a body. Ants gathered sugar
Last Line: Sweet. The ants took to their path on the counter
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


CINQUAIN: CATERPILLAR, by KENNETH CHING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hurry
Last Line: Of wings.
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


CLASSIFICATION, by DEBORAH WARREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A certain fritillary wont to flit
Last Line: The ordering: danaus plexippus %cannot describe a single butterfly
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


CLEMATIS MONTANA, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flocks of itinerant stars, flung from night's
Last Line: Pool of the soul's wide summer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Stars; Summer; Bugs


COCOON, by DAVID MCCORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little caterpillar creeps
Last Line: And that's the end of three good tries
Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects


CORN-GRINDING SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "butterflies, butterflies"
Last Line: "butterflies, away!"
Subject(s): Butterflies;fields;insects; Pastures;meadows;leas;bugs


CRAWLER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The spider crawls into the bible
Last Line: Deep in the book of genesis
Subject(s): Bible; Birth; Insects; Rest; Spiders


CREEPS AND CRAWLS, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The insect world appealed to fabre
Last Line: Someday, perhaps, my citronella %will rank with chamberlain's umbrella
Subject(s): Insects


CRICKETS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You don't need tickets
Last Line: And never will charge you a fee
Subject(s): Insects


CRICKETS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Hide in thickets
Subject(s): Insects


DA QUEENA BEE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Meester, eef you nevva see
Last Line: Evra wan hersal' a queen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Babies; Bees; Insects; Infants; Beekeeping; Bugs


DADDY LONG-LEGS AND THE FLY, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once mr daddy long-legs, %dressed in brown and gray
Last Line: At battlecock and shuttledore
Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Wings


DADDY LONGLEGS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O daddy %daddy o
Last Line: Those legs to grow?
Subject(s): Insects


DALEY'S DORG WATTLE, by W. T. GOODGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You can talk about yer sheep dorgs,' said the man from allan's creek
Last Line: "that there dorg had got that inseck in the bottle."
Alternate Author Name(s): Goodge, William Thomas
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Insects; Bugs


DEAD BUTTERFLY, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I see its whiteness
Last Line: Their rockgreen color and the bold %cut of its wings
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


DEATH IS LIKE THE INSECT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tis the vermin's will
Subject(s): Insects; Death; Trees


DEFRAUDED I A BUTTERFLY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The lawful heir of thee
Variant Title(s): Poem: 730; Poem: 85
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


DELIGHTS OF CAMP LIFE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come to the home of the friendly mosquito
Last Line: Come to where the centipedes crawl underneath
Subject(s): Centipedes;insects;mosquitoes; Bugs


DEPARTMENTAL, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: An ant on the table cloth
Last Line: But how thoroughly departmental
Subject(s): Ants; Bureaucracy; Insects; Bugs


DEPARTMENTAL, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An ant on the table cloth
Last Line: But how thoroughly departmental
Subject(s): Ants; Bureaucracy; Insects


DESIGN, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found a dimpled spider, fat and white
Last Line: If design govern in a thing so small.
Subject(s): Death; Fate; God; Insects; Men; Nature; Spiders; Dead, The; Destiny; Bugs


DIE LUAN HUA, by XU CAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The butterfly does not love the flowers, though the flowers love the butterfly
Last Line: Did you have to leave for the suzhou moon?
Subject(s): Absence; Butterflies; Insects


DIGGER WASP, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will never see my children
Last Line: They never saw
Subject(s): Insects


DISASTER, by MAY FAIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: A mossy knoll under a dogwood tree
Last Line: And plodding on, knew not their writhing pain.
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs


DISCLOSURE, by EDNA HOWE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The transient butterfly declares
Last Line: And a diviner duty.
Subject(s): Beauty; Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


DISCOVERY, by DOROTHY SIGMUND    Poem Text                    
First Line: A caterpillar squirmed
Last Line: And slowly slithered down.
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


DIVINE INSECT, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Already it's late summer
Last Line: Begins his faint, thin note, so pure, so true, %putting me ever deeper in his debt
Subject(s): Insects


DOUBLED MIRRORS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the dark of the moon
Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Raccoons; Spiders; Bugs


DOUBLED MIRRORS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the dark of the moon
Last Line: Across immeasurable distance
Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Raccoons; Spiders


DOWN IN THE HOLLOW, by AILEEN FISHER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I wonder if the ladybug %knew that I was there
Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds


DRAGONFLY, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the dragon
Last Line: Down on your knees!
Subject(s): Insects


DRIP - DRIP - WET AND MUDDY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Dream of sunny summer skies
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


DUSK SONG - THE BEETLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shrilling locust slowly sheathes
Last Line: The beattle booms adown the glooms %and bumps along the dusk
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Beetles; Insects


ELEGIAC SONNET: 77. TO THE INSECT OF THE GOSSAMER, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Small, viewless aeronaut, that by the line
Last Line: Ah! Soon at sorrow's touch the radiant dreams dissolve!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs


ELEGY IN A SPIDER'S WEB, by LAURA RIDING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What to say when the spider
Last Line: What time the spider
Alternate Author Name(s): Jackson, Laura Riding
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 16. CUPID HIMSELF STUNG, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Does a bee's sting thus make thee cry and whine?
Last Line: Comes as much short as that compared to thee.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs


EMMET, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The emmet is an ant (archaic)
Last Line: Not so its ancestor, the emmet, %which perished crying 'zounds!' or 'demmit!'
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


ENVOI, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fly, white butterflies, out to sea
Last Line: Fly!
Variant Title(s): White Butterflies
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Roundels; Bugs


ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: FOUR, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The male satin bowerbird builds a woven platform ten feet square,
Last Line: (stacked), red fruits, blue feathers, black and orange bracket fungi, %butterflies.
Variant Title(s): The Monarchs: 38: Esasay On Intelligence: Fou
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


FABLE: THE BEE, THE ANT, AND THE SPARROW, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My dears, 'tis said in days of old
Last Line: The wicked, wanton sparrow died.
Subject(s): Bees; Fables; Insects; Sparrows; Virtue; Beekeeping; Allegories; Bugs


FABLES: 1ST SER. 24. THE BUTTERFLY AND THE SNAIL, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All upstarts, insolent in place
Last Line: Shall prove of caterpillar breed.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Snails; Bugs


FABLES: 1ST SER. 38. THE TURKEY AND THE ANT, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In other men we faults can spy
Last Line: Nor for a breakfast nations kill.
Subject(s): Ants; Food & Eating; Insects; Turkeys; Bugs


FABLES: 2ND SER. 10. THE DEGENERATE BEES, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though courts the practice disallow
Last Line: We're honour'd by the virtuous few.
Subject(s): Bees; Corruption In Politics; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


FABLES: 2ND SER. 4. THE ANT IN OFFICE, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You tell me that you apprehend
Last Line: As due, to publick use restor'd.
Subject(s): Ants; Corruption In Politics; Insects; Bugs


FAIREST HOME I EVER KNEW, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A manse of mechlin and of floss
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1423; Poem: 144
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


FALLING IN LOVE AT SIXTY-FIVE, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is like the first and last time I tried a coleman
Last Line: To answer what was being insisted on
Subject(s): Books; Insects; Maine (state); Night; Old Age; Love – Nature Of; Reading; Bugs; Bedtime


FALLING IN LOVE AT SIXTY-FIVE, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is like the first and last time I tried a coleman
Last Line: In answer to what was being insisted on
Subject(s): Books; Insects; Maine (state); Night


FANNY; OR, THE BEAUTY AND THE BEE, by CHARLES MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fanny, array'd in the bloom of her beauty
Last Line: "go forth and be happy—I blame you no more."
Subject(s): Beauty; Bees; Forgiveness; Insects; Beekeeping; Clemency; Bugs


FESSLER'S BEES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Talkin' bout yer bees,' says ike
Last Line: "fore he went to floridy!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


FIELD WIRELESS, by BENJAMIN ALBERT BOTKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Firefly and cricket
Last Line: When people grow sleepy.
Subject(s): Insects; Bugs


FIELDWORK, by BOB HICOK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are two kinds of people and five hundred
Last Line: The jealous eyes of god have seen?
Subject(s): Amazons; Beetles; Insects; Jungles; Wilderness; Bugs


FIELDWORK, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are two kinds of people and five hundred
Last Line: A fraction and flutter of life not even %the jealous eyes of god have seen?
Subject(s): Amazons; Beetles; Insects; Jungles; Wilderness


FIREFLIES, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Light - light
Last Line: Fireflies - firefles
Subject(s): Insects


FIREFLY CITY, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a long arrow through the dark the train is darting
Last Line: The fire-fly city of the dark is lost in empty air!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Fireflies; Insects; Glowworms; Bugs


FLOODGATE, by DAVID MCCORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Low, when the western flock is folded
Last Line: And the owl begins his flight.
Subject(s): Birds; Floods; Insects; Owls; Bugs


FLYCATCHER, by BRENT PALLAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Collector of the cool pebble
Last Line: It was evening with no one to talk to %about beetles
Subject(s): Flycatchers; Insects


FLYING BLOSSOMS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: These butterflies, in twos and threes
Last Line: Another crop of golden corn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Wings; Bugs


FLYING CROOKED, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The butterly, the cabbage-white
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


FLYING CROOKED, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The butterly, the cabbage-white
Last Line: Even the arobatic swift %has not his flying-crooked gift
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


FLYING FLOWER, by ARAKIDA MORITAKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fallen flower I see
Last Line: Ah! A butterfly
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


FOR A DESIGN OF A BUTTERFLY RESTING ON A SKULL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Creature of air and light
Last Line: Thy hope calls heavenward from yon ruined cell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


FORGIVEN, by ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name
Last Line: An excited alexander you've mistaken for a match
Alternate Author Name(s): Milne, A. A.
Subject(s): Beetles; Insects


FORTH, MY GALLANT HONEY-BEES!, by LUDVIG HOLSTEIN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


FRAM 1403: BLACK WIDOW SPIDER, by BILL GARTEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Latrodectus mactans
Last Line: Thing for the hubby you ate last year?
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


FRUIT TREE, by ZSOFIA BALLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We urge on the fruit tree every spring
Last Line: That butterfly's death - caterpillar -behold! Has given birth
Subject(s): Butterflies; Fruit; Insects; Trees


FUSCARA; OR, THE BEE ERRANT, by JOHN CLEVELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature's confectioner, the bee
Last Line: The bee committed parricide.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


FUZZY WUZZY, CREEPY CRAWLY, by LILLIAN SCHULZ VANADA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: You were once a caterpillar, %wiggly, wiggly fellow
Subject(s): Butterflies; Caterpillars; Insects


GEORGICS: BEES, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the mute creation, these alone
Last Line: And poise their bodies thro' the void of air
Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


GIANT WATER BUG, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The giant water bug can lug
Last Line: Or gift for father's day?
Subject(s): Insects


GOLDEN GLORIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The buttercup is like a golden cup
Last Line: Sucks from sweet hearts of flowers and stores and sips.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


GOLDEN WASP, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blindworm that legless lizard flows along the porch step
Last Line: The dark bat has left my face and is scissoring around in summer's bright space
Subject(s): Insects; Bats


GOUT AND WINGS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pigeons fluttered fieldward, one and all
Last Line: A wing was open'd at me everywhere!
Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Gout; Insects; Wings; Flying; Bugs


GRANDMOTHER, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A spider floats from the apple tree
Last Line: Had proved to be there at all.
Subject(s): Comfort; Ghosts; Grandparents; Insects; Spiders; Supernatural; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Bugs


GRASSHOPPER, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Can't stop her
Subject(s): Insects


GRASSHOPPERS, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sap's rising
Last Line: Grasshoppers
Subject(s): Insects


HAIKU, by J. W. HACKETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: An old spider web
Last Line: Sagging full of seeds
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


HAIKU, by KOBAYASHI ISSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even with insects
Last Line: Some can't
Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa
Subject(s): Insects


HAIKU, by MATSUMOTO TAKASHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: On an onion tuft
Last Line: Lonely, sad
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bee
Last Line: Of the peony
Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


HAPPY WORLD, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bee is a rover
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry
Variant Title(s): Brown Be
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


HELIODORA, by MELEAGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why dost thou touch, o flower-fed bee
Last Line: I knew it long ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


HELL OF INSECTS, by COLIN HAMILTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: At first, his parents could not have been more pleased by his
Last Line: His father must have heard something else, for he backed away
Subject(s): Insects; Parents


HEY,' SAYS THE FLY, 'YOU'RE AN ODD LITTLE GUY, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: You once were a maggot yourself, you old fake!'
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


HIVES AND HOMES, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When march has gone with his cruel wind
Last Line: When the summer of life is over.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


HOKKU, by WINIFRED WALDRON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bringer of pollen
Last Line: Love is my duty.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs


HOME AT NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When chirping crickets fainter cry
Last Line: Are lifted -- and the lips of kate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Home; Insects; Night; Bugs; Bedtime


HOMELESS COMPLEYNT, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pardon me buddy, I didn't mean to bug you
Last Line: Wiping your windshield with a dirty rag
Subject(s): Homeless; Insects; Veterans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Bugs


HOMELESS COMPLEYNT, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pardon me buddy, I didn't mean to bug you
Last Line: Wiping your windshield with a dirty rag
Subject(s): Homeless; Insects


HOMO SAPIENS, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slightly lower than the arachnid
Last Line: Sow the ears with finer lines than silk.
Subject(s): Insects; Mankind; Spiders


HONEY, by RUTH MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The helicopter bee fines down
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


HONEY BEE, HONEY BEE! HERE IS SOME MONEY, by LUCY FITCH PERKINS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


HONEY HARVEST, by MARTIN DONISTHORPE ARMSTRONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late in march, when the days are growing longer
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects


HONEYBEE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You do everything, melissa, just the way
Last Line: For money you have a sharp sting
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Love - Complaints; Pentastichs


HONEYBEES, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Being a bee
Last Line: Best %of all lives
Subject(s): Insects


HONEYCOMB, by N. M. BENNETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within unnumbered, fragile cells the bee
Last Line: I taste -- and I am satisfied awhile.
Subject(s): Insects; Bugs


HOOFER, by A. K. REDWING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Passing like a strauss waltz
Last Line: In time to a much higher music
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


HORNET, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A hornet's born with yellow rings
Last Line: Pudding from your picnic table
Subject(s): Insects


HORNETS, by JAMES MCCORKLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stunned in the cold morning by the brush
Last Line: And swarm the lamp till it went dark
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Life


HOUSE CRICKETS, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We don't live in meadows
Last Line: Britght blue %pilot light
Subject(s): Insects


HOUSEFLY, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: They seldom part %at your request
Subject(s): Insects


HUM-BUGS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some bugs will sting and bite, and some
Last Line: The bug that hums and does not bite.
Subject(s): Insects; Bugs


HYMN TO AURORA, by JULIO FLOREZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou heavenly butterfly / whose great and tenuous wings
Last Line: To ashes day shall burn!
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


I CAN LIFT GRAVITY'S STERN GLOWER, by LIBBY HOUSTON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Now if I spin much more you'll guess me quick
Subject(s): Insects; Riddles; Spiders


I SAW A BLACK BUTTERFLY, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Maybe it was an owl
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature


I TRIED TO TAKE MY SKIN OFF, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: So now it just... %hangs there... %staring at... %me
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


I'D BE A BUTTERFLY, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd be a butterfly born in a bower
Last Line: Dying when fair things are fading away
Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


I'M WAITING, WAITING, WAITING, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: One spider down the hatch
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


IMAGINING THE BEES, by PATRICK BIZZARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have never held anything
Last Line: The net of my smile %nd my wooden eyelids %learn how to dance
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


IMMANENT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The drone of war-plane neared,and dimmed away
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Ants; Insects


IN GATINAIS: REPOSE AT NOON, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bee, that the thyme doth sing, how clear thy hum doth ring in the
Last Line: Ear!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Life; Noon; Beekeeping; Bugs


IN TALL GRASS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bees and a honeycomb in the dried head of a horse in
Last Line: The bees come home and the bees sleep.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


INAMORATA, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bees were holding levees in the flowers
Last Line: And keep me happy in your pious prayer.
Subject(s): April; Bees; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs


INCHWORM, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I inch, I arch
Last Line: And never pick up speeding tickets
Subject(s): Insects


INCHWORMS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: One inch per pinch
Subject(s): Insects


INFESTATION, by DANIEL HALPERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even insects have histories
Last Line: Upon which they take their evening meal
Subject(s): Insects; Exterminating & Exterminators; Bugs


INFESTATION, by DANIEL HALPERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even insects have histories
Last Line: Upon which they take their evening meal
Subject(s): Insects


INSECT CRIES, by YI CHANGHUI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The insect chirring every night
Last Line: My heart is drawn to the insect %chirring nightly under the floor
Subject(s): Insects


INSECT DEDICATIONS, by STUART JOHN DYBEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: For issa %junebugs-
Last Line: Or stay here %with the dragonflies?
Subject(s): Insects


INSECT HEADS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These insects, golden
Last Line: Hold sand paintings of the next life
Subject(s): Insects; Bugs


INSECT HEADS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These insects, golden
Subject(s): Insects


INSECT LIFE OF FLORIDA, by LYNDA HULL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In those days I thought their endless thrum
Last Line: And dangerous as the human heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Florida; Family Life; Insects; Animals; Relatives; Bugs


INSECT STUDY, by LIA PURPURA    Poem Source                    
First Line: If a tarantula is dropped, it shatters like a crystal candlestick
Last Line: Circa 1890, well-combed and pomaded, %so familiar, so unkillable
Subject(s): Insects


INSECTS, by KOBAYASHI ISSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Insects, why cry?
Last Line: That way
Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa
Subject(s): Death; Insects


INSECTS AT NIGHT, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why this trembling at the cicada's tremolo
Last Line: By link: enchaining toward some infinite
Subject(s): Insects; Night


INSPIRATION, by ABBOTTE MCKINNON DOWNING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lovely butterfly! / you're like a fleeting
Last Line: Carefree and gay -- for one short span.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


INTRUSIONS AND A LITTLE PHILOSOPHY, by JANE M. MCCLELLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Again this morning %the kitchen floor is sprinkled with dead ants
Last Line: The only graceful life: a struggle %before the giving in
Subject(s): Death; Insects


INVITATION TO THE BEE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Child of patient industry
Last Line: Among the flowers, thou little busy bee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


IO MOTH, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Like garter snakes %and science teachers
Subject(s): Insects


JULIUS CAESAR AND THE HONEY-BEE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poring on caesar's death with earnest eye
Last Line: I might have set the honey-maker free.
Subject(s): Bees; Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


JUNE BUG, by EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bug like a coffee-bean
Last Line: Into a pool of ink
Subject(s): Insects


JUNE BUGS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Like bomber pilots %flying blind
Subject(s): Insects


KATYDIDS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Or did she didn't?
Subject(s): Insects


KILLING THE ANTS, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flies are shooed from my house, spiders coaxed
Last Line: Acid drifts like an acrid perfume
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Judgments; Trials


KILLING THE BEES, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They'd been there for years, secreted in the ceiling
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


KINDNESS TO INSECTS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a melancholy wasp
Last Line: Upon a purple clover knosp.
Subject(s): Insects; Rhyme; Bugs


KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out from jerusalem
Last Line: "than flatteries of the great."
Subject(s): Ants; Bible; Insects; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Bugs; Theology


KING SOLOMON AND THE BEES; A TALE OF THE TALMUD, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When solomon was reigning in his glory
Last Line: As israel's king learned wisdom from the bees!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Jews; Sheba, Queen Of (10th Century B.c.); Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Beekeeping; Bugs; Judaism


KITTY CAUGHT A CATERPILLAR, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bee caught her instead
Last Line: The bee caught her instead
Subject(s): Insects


KOROSTA KATZINA SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yellow butterflies / over the blossoming virgin corn
Last Line: All day shall come the rushing rain
Subject(s): Butterflies;corn;fields;harvest;insects; Pastures;meadows;leas;bugs


LADYBUG, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Someday when you are down and feeling dour
Last Line: All the while, down below, we trained and trained %the little horse
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insects


LAW, by MOLLY MCQUADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Caterpillars lurch
Last Line: Of impossible tree, %holding ground
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects


LEAFHOPPER SITS, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: You think that's a cucumber vine - %but it's not
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


LICE, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In your hair, %those lousy louses
Subject(s): Insects


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


LINES TO A LADY-BIRD, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cow-lady, or sweet lady-bird
Last Line: I bid thee hail, bright lady-bird!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord
Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Bugs; Ladybugs


LIVING WITH LIMITS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The giant water bug of the southern united states
Last Line: Have more limited powers
Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; Insects; Sex


LOCUST POCUS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And do provoke us
Subject(s): Insects


LOCUSTS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hocus-pocus %we are locusts
Last Line: Each time we pass
Subject(s): Insects


LOOK AT A BEE, by LEA GOLDBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a lit-up window square
Last Line: Fear kills. %watch out
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


LYCOSA, THE SPIDER, by ANNIE CHARLOTTE DALTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hannah, offering her first-born
Last Line: For lord or sun?
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs


MAGGOTS, by ERNEST WICHNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a skull here under twigs
Last Line: After leaf and on bobbing twigs
Subject(s): Insects


MAGNIFYING GLASS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With this round glass
Last Line: Twould seem you'd walk there %in an afternoon!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


MAMA PITTER-PATTER PEDE HAD HALF A HUNDRED LEGS, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And one that wibble-wobbled into bummer beetle's mouth
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


MAMA, HEY MAMA BUG, LOOK OVERHEAD!, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: For you, bugaboo. For you.'
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


MANTIS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Her bug gourmet %a prayer away
Subject(s): Insects


MARCO POLO, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was heroic, fugitive, in love with the machinery
Last Line: Devoured by the oriental machinery of the silkworm
Subject(s): Explorers; Insects; Money; Polo, Marco (1254-1324); Sea; Skeletons; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Bugs; Ocean


MARIA'S PURSE, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maria had an aunt at leeds
Last Line: "admit the insects' greater skill!"
Subject(s): Bees; Girls; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


MARIPOSA, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes the day
Last Line: Where I used to see her eyes
Subject(s): Butterflies; Hearts; Insects; Love


MARIPOSA, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Butterflies are white and blue
Last Line: Death comes in a day or two.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Carpe Diem; Death; Insects; Dead, The; Bugs


MAYFLIES, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your moment
Last Line: Back when we were %young
Subject(s): Insects


MAYFLIES, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Be gone by night
Subject(s): Insects


MAYFLY, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A mayfly flies %in may or june
Last Line: Hello %good-bye %good-bye
Subject(s): Insects


MERRY BEE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A golden bee a-cometh
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


MIDGES IN THE SUNSHINE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I could see with a midge's eye
Last Line: "as that larger midge, a man!"
Subject(s): Insects; Bugs


MILLIPEDE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oi! Oi! Noli me tangere, no argument
Last Line: Poor millipede - he must have been a he - %to catch the eye of the real housekeeper
Subject(s): Insects


MINIMAL, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I study the lives on a leaf; the little
Last Line: Cleaning and caressing, %creeping and healing
Subject(s): Insects


MINISTERING BEES, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Think you this topaz powder on the bee
Last Line: Not merely honey drunken debauchees!
Subject(s): Bees; Drinks & Drinking; Insects; Sex; Beekeeping; Wine; Bugs


MOMENT, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two small white butterflies settle
Last Line: In tune with things, staining the day
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


MOMENT, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two small white butterflies settle
Last Line: In tune with things, staining the day
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCH BUTTERFLIES, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: During the usual dinner table argument
Last Line: Loud hard talk during supper, %nothing to dislodge those fragile wings
Subject(s): Butterflies; Dinners And Dining; Family Life; Insects


MONARCH BUTTERFLY, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is a monarch %he is a king
Last Line: Swallows that swallow him %frequently puke
Subject(s): Insects


MONARCHS: 1, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: They hang in santa cruz by the hundreds of thousands
Last Line: The event is sufficiently rehearsed in the nerves
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 10, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love the way attention %becomes a magnet. My cousin writes
Last Line: From scratch how to stay alive
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 11, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: After winter rain the eucalyptus
Last Line: Limboed out in liquid nitrogen
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 12, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nature was the object of my contemplation
Last Line: Dense and porous as a luffa, %where 'I' take place?
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 13, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Given, a speck of magnetite %(ferrous oxide) is
Last Line: The sympathy between iron %and the axis of the world
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 14, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: What did we want to see, %our faces pressed to glass
Last Line: To see them do it, appetites %meeting in the neurologic sea
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 15, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nature doesn't interest me,' said
Last Line: With mind, with our minds. This will be paradise
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 16, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let's say that the orchid %created
Last Line: Our species has caused by calling %such misunderstandings love
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 17: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: ONE, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The female digger wasp %maintains several burrows
Last Line: Without realizing it needs no food
Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: On
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 18, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: In mexico where the eastern monarchs
Last Line: So clear in their direction
Variant Title(s): Sanctuar
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature


MONARCHS: 19, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: One summer I hiked from swallowtail light, a lazy morning photographing
Last Line: Returning to the world again, concluding that without alienation there would be no consciousness
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 2, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: What does intelligence have to do with
Last Line: On a street full of strangers to have his way
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 20, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember the line from some classic
Last Line: The rocks on which they'd grown
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 21, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm writing from the botanic garden at the tilden park
Last Line: Effortless and slo, their movement visible only in the form
Variant Title(s): Tilden Par
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 22, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Redwoods. At night they take %the headlights without blinking
Last Line: Their angel cells catch and release the light
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 23, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sassafras and acrid leaf smell
Last Line: I turn around and walk back to town
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 24: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: TWO, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Language has been the central %event in human evolution
Last Line: Wants to act and the newer part %insists on imagining action
Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: Tw
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 25, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dream I run a prison from which everyone escapes
Last Line: I dream and the dream falls like ash into the day
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 26, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: A caterpillar spits out a sac of silk
Last Line: And the butterfly has mastered flight
Variant Title(s): Genetic Sequenc
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 27, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dream an infant falls %from the upper story
Last Line: Brings out brandy, and %launches an all-night bash
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 28: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: THREE, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: After many years of language training
Last Line: Often chewing and swallowing %the tool as if it were food
Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: Thre
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 29, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: To what do I return %again in solitude
Last Line: Where I sat beside the fire %that kept me warm
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 3, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bypassing santa cruz %I descended toward monterey bay, a bedazzled traveler
Last Line: Spirits in the luminous air
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 30, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: In one version of the postapocalyptic %planet, the weeping replicant
Last Line: What she is or is not, because she loves him
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 31, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the first few nights I spent in scotland
Last Line: My fire-grate each night. 'there, is it...?'
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 32, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Women alone %suffer two kinds of rigidity, the popular kind
Last Line: Into a lover's lips, there's not %a woman's life she envies
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 33, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Butterflies rise in courtship, %a spiraling vertical dance
Last Line: Their copulation is violent %and followed immediately by flight
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 34, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stood in line to see the crown jewels
Last Line: Debunking culture. The only monarch we %admire is a fragile, migratory bug
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 35, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inasmuch as %the monarch butterflies
Last Line: Funds to purchase land on which the butterflies spend the winter
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 36, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: At breakfast in the castle someone %reads aloud from the morning paper
Last Line: Nor lies awake at night worrying %what kind of animal she should be
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 37, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The face was shallow, sad, dusty %and sincere. He did not speak
Last Line: So intense I expected to find %the carpet dusted with ash
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 39, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weeds in the turrets of the fallen tower
Last Line: Which are the chosen ones and which must die
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 4, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: On september 20, 1892, vast swarms
Last Line: Toward their mexican sanctuary
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 41, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Butterfly and insect world %is a tawdry place
Last Line: Giggling, and keeps on running, %as if he were one of their kind
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 42, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Glistening billows of broad-leafed green
Last Line: By one incapable of telling lies
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 43, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Butterflies rise in courtship, but
Last Line: He wounded self to draw a border %he would never cross
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 44, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Night. A woman betrayed
Last Line: It could simply %have what it wants
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 45, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: When she asks did it happen, %he says no no of course not
Last Line: He is innocent everything %justified by love
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 46: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: SIX, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inasmuch as awareness is a process
Last Line: Could help us save the wild: eat this in remembrance of me
Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: Si
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 47, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: What he never understood %was that his lying
Last Line: In her place, in hers and hers
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 48, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I read about dido in high school %but then I was too worried
Last Line: How to marry the city and the hearth
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 49, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: And in the miners' graveyard %so many stones cut with
Last Line: From across the endless sea
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 5, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today the news is of monkeys, %skulls opened to expose
Last Line: Parents, children, cousins, and herself
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 50, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I spent hours each day walking
Last Line: Its trilling ritual %the warning I had come too close
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 51, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: But did I walk where he walked
Last Line: Himself a caveman, one who was %tribally wise without being part of a tribe
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 52: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: SEVEN, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The broken-wing display of a plover
Last Line: Sailing them across rivers %using their tails as rudders
Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: Seve
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 53, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: A favorite terror, one we practive
Last Line: That even you aren't what you seem
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 54, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: What I wanted was guidance %a system in telemetry
Last Line: Knowing nothing human %could be that sure
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 56, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Following the plume %of a dying campfire
Last Line: Sufficient, I thought, %the work of this day
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 57, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: My firend draws an x- and y- axis %on my cocktail mapkin, trying
Last Line: Of motion, so much he remembered
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 58, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sleep, monarchs, rising and falling
Last Line: Awakening in me soundings of the past %that name the future
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 59, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'll hold you booth in my heart' %I tell my friend, after hearing
Last Line: The hand of death. Then he departs, %and I wake up, nearly well again
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 6, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the fifties version of invasion of the body snatchers
Last Line: As the scientist's own lover goes mechanical in his arms
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 60, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: A mother who became an amateur lepidopterist
Last Line: All the woman could know was that it rose
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 7, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maybe the a.I. Guys are right. We're
Last Line: Just help us to keep going. %the credits roll
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 8, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two ducks flying against a smoky sky
Last Line: A thing that will inflict no harm
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: 9, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: It must be their waking time %wings open to the sun
Last Line: Minds that blooming fields await them
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MONARCHS: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: FIVE, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unfold the cortex and lay it %on the table -- it's thin and smooth
Last Line: In a language I can't read, but must believe
Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: Fiv
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


MORNING HARVEST, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pennsylvania spiders / not only stretch their silk between the limbs
Subject(s): Civilization; Insects; Pennsylvania; Spiders; Bugs


MORNING HARVEST, by GERALD STERN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pennsylvania spiders %not only stretch their silk between the limbs
Last Line: Bringing language and mathematics and religion into darkness
Subject(s): Civilization; Insects; Pennsylvania; Spiders


MOSQUITOES, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mosquitoes are thin
Last Line: For take-out food
Subject(s): Insects


MOSQUITOES, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: With straws for tongues!
Subject(s): Insects


MOSS, RUST, AND MOTHS, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Moss rises from the ground
Last Line: And stare %and stare at the city lights
Subject(s): Insects; Moths; Nature; Wings


MOTH, by B. H. FAIRCHILD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A larval tunneling between pages
Last Line: The hunger, the gray dream of with, and, the
Subject(s): Insects; Moths; Wings


MOTH CHORALE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In switzerland, just one half-timbered floor
Last Line: And I'm supposed to concentrate?
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Insects; Moths


MOTH'S SERENADE, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Porch %light
Last Line: For light!
Subject(s): Insects


MOTHS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Not disarming, %but disrobing
Subject(s): Insects


MR. EDWARDS AND THE SPIDER, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the spiders marching through the air
Subject(s): Calvinists; Death; Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); God; Insects; Sin; Spiders; Dead, The; Bugs


MR. EDWARDS AND THE SPIDER, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the spiders marching through the air
Last Line: To die and know it. This is the black widow, death
Subject(s): Calvinists; Death; Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); God; Insects; Sin; Spiders


MUIOPOTMOS, OR THE FATE OF THE BUTTERFLIE, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing of deadly dolorous debate
Last Line: His bodie left the spectacle of care.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Butterflies; Fables; Insects; Mythology; Allegories; Bugs


MUSICAL CHAIRS, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chairs were set up on the hillside
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Chairs; Games; Insects; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Bugs


MY ABHORRENT FASCINATION, by JOYCE ODAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Handsome spider
Last Line: Hides behind %picasso now
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


MY BUG AMOS, by VIRGINIA ELLIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I done it - I killed 'im
Last Line: My fingers . . . 'at amos 'us in my hand?
Subject(s): Insects; Bugs


MY BUTTERFLY, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thine emulous fond flowers are dead, too
Last Line: Under the eaves.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


MY BUTTERFLY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: As the butterfly held in the mesh of the net
Last Line: Which lies in the depth of a kiss!
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


MY PET SPIDER, by INGRID MOE MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dead twenty-four years, I think
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


MYTH, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Young theseus makes a mission of his doom
Last Line: Where ariadne holds %her cobwebs, ill-advised
Subject(s): Insects; Mythology; Spiders


NAKED SEA BUTTERFLIES, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like you, I don't know what they are
Last Line: Poetic dazzle of their name
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Science


NAMELESS ONE, by MARGARET AVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hot in june a narrow winged
Last Line: Over rips and tears and %thin places
Subject(s): Insects


NATURE, FOR NATURE'S SAKE, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White as white butterflies that each one dons
Last Line: Without your father falleth to the ground.'
Subject(s): Butterflies; God; Insects; Life; Nature; Bugs


NEITHER NOW, by MOLLY TENENBAUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: All summer I lived in the bees' house
Last Line: A dried petal %in my multiform eye?
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Summer


NEW SPRING: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With the rose the butterfly's deep in love
Last Line: The star of eve and butterfly.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


NIGHT CRAWLER, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The last automobile of night passes. I exit, drop to knees on a wet blan
Last Line: Suffer wet indignities of dirt for a handful of them
Subject(s): Insects; Night


NO GO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said a simpering butterfly, sipping a rose
Last Line: Quoth the impudent chap.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Spiders; Bugs


NOT SUDDEN LIKE THE BEETLE, by GWYN MCVAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The women in my family take a long time -- learning to call crows
Last Line: Beetle's gilt legs, the ribs in her shell -- but forget that she can fly
Subject(s): Insects; Women


NURSERY RHYMES FOR THE TENDER-HEARTED (DEDICATED TO DON MARQUIS): 4, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew a black beetle, who lived down a drain
Last Line: And he'll never come bathing with me any more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Beetles; Insects; Marquis, Don (1878-1937); Bugs


NURSERY SNAIL, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The garden snail, %moist in its bed
Last Line: Capture-soft %hand of you
Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Nature; Snails


ODE TO A BUTTERFLY, by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou spark of life that wavest wings of gold
Last Line: Symbol of life, me with such faith endow!
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Transcendentalism; Bugs


ODE TO THE BEE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Herds, blythsome tune your canty reeds
Last Line: That lyart time can ne'er impair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Praise; Beekeeping; Bugs


OF A SPIDER, by WILFRID CHARLES THORLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The spider weaves his silver wire
Last Line: Between the rose-bud and the cherry
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


OF THE BOY AND THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN BUNYAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold how eager this our little boy
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


ON DISCOVERING A BUTTERFLY, by VLADIMIR NABOKOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I found it in a legendary hand
Last Line: Red label on a little butterfly
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


ON THE DEATH OF LITTLE MAHALA ASHCRAFT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little haly! Little haly!' cheeps the robin the tree
Last Line: "and the katydids and crickets hollers ""haly!"" all the night."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bees; Birds; Death; Grief; Insects; Night; Beekeeping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bugs; Bedtime


ONCE UPON A GARDEN ROTTEN, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Wait for spring. Go back to sleep
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


ONLY MY OPINION, by MONICA SHANNON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is a caterpillar ticklish?
Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


ONLY MY OPINION, by MONICA SHANNON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is a caterpillar ticklish?
Last Line: That he giggles, as he wiggles %across a hairy leaf
Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects


ORIENT, by ARMANDE ALICE FAIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: White butterflies flitting across the face
Last Line: In a gauze of opal lure.
Subject(s): Asia; Butterflies; Insects; Moon; Stars; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Bugs


ORPHIC SOUL, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I walk slowly along
Last Line: Kept secret even from myself
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Self; Soul


OUR PLAN FOR BEES, by KEVIN CANTWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clouds tumbling in the wide glass picture window
Last Line: Spark from the chimney's rushing heat above us
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


PAPA, O PAPA BUG, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?', by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It's gummy, it's yummy, it's dung! What a treat.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


PATIENCE OF THE SPIDER'S WEB, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is not distubed by dew
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Patience; Spiders


PEDIGREE OF HONEY (DIFF. VERS.), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A clover, any time, to him %is aristocracy
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1627 (2); Poem: 165
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


PERPETUAL MOTION, by JORGE GUILLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two white butterflies %chasing one another
Last Line: Two routes %two raptures
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


PIERCED, SELS., by HANS FAVEREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What it is all about, %I repeat, is
Last Line: Started to feel ashamed of myself
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


PLANE GEOMETER, by DAVID MCCORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A water strider skates upon the brook
Last Line: By aberration of the drowsy heat, %to box the crazy compass of bad dreams
Subject(s): Insects


PLASTIC BEATITUDE, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our neighbors, the pazzotis, live in a long
Last Line: To their last temptation.
Subject(s): Blessings; Electricity; Extermination & Exterminators; Family Life; Insects; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Neighbors; Toys; Women In The Bible; Relatives; Bugs; Virgin Mary


PODAGER BEGS PARDON OF BIRDS, BEES, AND WINGS IN GENERAL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pardon me, all ye birds that float at ease
Last Line: A chiding angel, of the smallest wing.
Subject(s): Angels; Bees; Birds; Flight; Insects; Wings; Beekeeping; Flying; Bugs


POEM FOR THE INSECTS IN FALL, by WILLIAM JOSEPH MEISSNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have seen them
Last Line: Their tiny opaque brushstrokes coating the windshield %like first frost
Subject(s): Autumn; Insects; Seasons


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 8. KINDRED, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The butterfly and flower
Last Line: By earth in the same hour.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Bugs


POPPING HOT PEPPERS - IT'S SIXTY DEGREES!, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Great galloping grubs, get a whiff of that breeze!
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


POTATO BUG, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rumors of it kept my doors sealed
Last Line: Nina de la tierra: child of the earth, %as we all can't help but be
Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Mosquitoes; Wings


PRAGMATICS, by PAULANN PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In your story of bees
Last Line: A fine, even tremble
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Nature


PRAYING MANTIS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Upon a twig %I sit and pray
Last Line: I swallow them %religiously
Subject(s): Insects


PROBLEM WITH POETRY, by MARTIN ARNOLD    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In silence could only have been %because of greed
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Self


PSYCHE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The butterfly the ancient grecians made
Last Line: And to deform and kill the things whereon we feed.
Variant Title(s): The Butterfly
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


QUEST, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over crimson clover-seas
Last Line: Such a golden story of honey!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


REQUIEM, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Carolina sphinx moths
Last Line: Killing frost
Subject(s): Insects


REQUIEM OF THE BUTTERFLY, by GONZALO ROJAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dirty was the day of the dead butterfly
Last Line: In the luxury of so much beauty, tell us how %or, at least, when
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


RESIGNATION, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd hate to be a centipede (of legs I've only two)
Last Line: Content am I to live and die, just -- ordinary man
Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Insects


RIDDLE, by BRIAN SWANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The little chief from the north
Last Line: Where I go to is good
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Riddles


ROACHES, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: They go bare-feeted
Subject(s): Insects


ROOTS AND BRANCHES, by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sail, monarchs, rising and falling
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


ROOTS AND BRANCHES, by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sail, monarchs, rising and falling
Last Line: Awakening transports of an inner view of things
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


RUTABAGAS, RED POTATOES, CABBAGES, AND BEANS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Then listen to the dripping as you sleep, sleep, sleep
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


SAMSON, by RICK BURSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whoever said a butterfly couldn't be trained
Last Line: And I did. Love creates obedience
Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Love; Obedience


SCARABAEUS SISYPHUS, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've watched thee, scarab! Yea, an hour in vain
Last Line: Life's stone, recoiling from the alps of time?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Beetles; Insects; Sisyphus; Bugs


SCUFFLED DUST, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lean white birches of the moon
Last Line: What came after I do not know.
Subject(s): Apple Blossoms; Apples; Fruit; Insects; Spiders; Virtue; Bugs


SEA AND THE BUTTERFLY, by KIM KIRIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since no one has ever told her
Last Line: And the pale moon chills the thin waist %of the sad butterfly
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


SECOND LIFE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After life's departing sigh
Last Line: Come and catch that butterfly!'
Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Insects; Reincarnation; Dead, The; Bugs; Transmigration; Pretas


SECRET (2), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fuzzy fellow without feet
Last Line: To tell the pretty secret %of the butterfly!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 173; Poem: 17
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


SECRET HISTORY OF ROCK'N'ROLL, by ROBERT J. CLAWSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Instead of settling the bole
Last Line: He told the bees ... But no one else
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


SECRET LIFE OF BUTTERFLIES, by EDMUND CONTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The butterfly
Last Line: I'd rather be phyllis diller %than a caterpillar.'
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


SEEING A BUTTERFLY ON AN AUTUMN DAY, by ZHU ZHONGXIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vast river, falling leaves, eagles' sorrowful cries
Last Line: Flits toward a cold twig in this autumn scene
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


SEMBLANCE: SCREENS, by LIZ WALDNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A moth lies open and lies
Subject(s): Insects; Bugs


SEPTEMBER BUTTERFLY, by MOLLIE BORING    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the %dashboard in my car
Last Line: Stretched across %the bay
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


SEX LIFE OF INSECTS, by DOUG FLAHERTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: For you I'd become a nymph
Last Line: My antennae will be twitching the stars
Subject(s): Insects; Sex


SHANGHAI INSECT MARKET, by CLYDE EDGAR KEELER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over there let us stop / at the insect mart
Last Line: A hollow ball to house two great green katydids.
Subject(s): Insects; Bugs


SHARD, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the ravages that took the bees by storm
Variant Title(s): Last Drop
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


SIGNS OF SPRING, by THERESA S. YORK    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the nearest hills choose pastel green
Last Line: It's spring.
Subject(s): Insects; Spring; Bugs


SILKWORMS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Trapeze artists %overhead
Subject(s): Insects


SILKWORMS AND SPIDERS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The worm long fosters his transforming sleep
Last Line: And we must rest, till god shall tell us more.
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Worms; Bugs


SILVERFISH, by SANDRA STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am used to this house that keeps its mouth shut
Last Line: I avert my eyes and proceed
Subject(s): Insects


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 105, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What does the bee do?
Last Line: Eat up the honey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): What Do They Do?
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 39, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brown and furry
Last Line: To live again a butterfly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): The Caterpillar
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


SINGING DEATH, by CHARLES R. MURPHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Brown, brown, brown, brown, gold
Last Line: Singing death.)
Subject(s): Insects; Bugs


SINGING INSECTS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Semi - singing insects - boys catch in june
Last Line: And as the caged insects sing.
Subject(s): Insects; Marriage; Bugs; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SINGLE CLOVER PLANK, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Did not so much as wring from him %a wandering 'alas'
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1343; Poem: 129
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA ANNOUNCES THE WINNING PROJECT ... INSECTS, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bug for every ailment, so
Last Line: Oh, the big fat candle of desire, %breathless, oh, wild ride, %the knobbed gearshift of love
Subject(s): Insects


SNARES, by FLORENCE GRAUEL MILLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I watched a spider weave his web
Last Line: Came flying to his lair.
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Trapping; Bugs


SOLOMON AND THE ANTS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the kings of fallen earth
Last Line: The strongest of the strong.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Bugs


SONG, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The butterflies that are the snow's own hue
Last Line: O blossom of my soul!
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Butterflies; Desire; Flight; Insects; Love; Flying; Bugs


SONG FOR THE CUCUYO, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Caught them at sundown in the tall grass
Variant Title(s): Song To The Cucuyo
Subject(s): Insects; Singing & Singers; Bugs


SONG FOR THE CUCUYO, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Caught them at sundown in the tall grass
Last Line: From havana to tallahassee, to light %the children's way home
Variant Title(s): Song To The Cucuy
Subject(s): Insects; Singing And Singers


SONG OF THE QUEEN BEE, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the air is wine and the wind is free
Last Line: That I'll always mate %with whatever drone I encounter
Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B.
Subject(s): Artificial Insemination; Bees; Insects; Reproduction


SONNET TO A BUTTERFLY, by HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth to thy bright existence of an hour
Last Line: Never to sorrow more, nor doubt, nor die?
Alternate Author Name(s): Forester, Frank
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


SONNET TO THE JUNEBUG, I, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You make me je's a little nervouser
Last Line: Up that eternal buzzin' serenade!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Insects; Bugs


SPEW, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere out toward the tip of the downswinging
Last Line: And an occasional chicken snake
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Insects


SPHINX-MOTH AND DADDY LONGLEGS, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the evening when dark is settling down
Last Line: Man, the seeker, seeks himself
Subject(s): Animals; Flowers; Forests; Hummingbirds; Insects; Moths


SPIDER, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: With six small diamonds for his eyes
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


SPIDER, by WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The web outside the window filled
Last Line: And he waits for what the wind will deliver
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


SPIDER, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How doth the jolly little spider
Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P.
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


SPIDER, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With what voice
Last Line: In this autumn breeze?
Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


SPIDER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anansi, black busybody of the folktales
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Africa; Fables; Insects; Spiders; Allegories; Bugs


SPIDER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anansi, black busybody of the folktales
Last Line: Ex machina. Nor did they seem deterred by this
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Africa; Fables; Insects; Spiders


SPIDER, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This enormous spider isn't moving any more
Last Line: And the gloomy thoughts this traveler has brought me
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


SPIDER, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a huge spider that cannot crawl farther
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


SPIDER, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's an enormous spider that no longer moves
Last Line: And today when worry that traveler brought me!
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Worry


SPIDER AND FLY, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once when morn was flowing in
Last Line: Sitting on her silver stairs.
Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Spiders; Bugs


SPIDER HANGS TOO FAR FROM THE GROUND, by ANTONIO CISNEROS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Before they bury me
Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Spiders


SPIDER HOLDS A SILVER BALL, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: His boundaries -- forgot
Variant Title(s): Poem: 605; Poem: 51
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


SPIDER-CRAB, by DAVID GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A spindly spider-crab with spokes for legs
Last Line: But empty now, where once a spider stood
Subject(s): History; Insects; Spiders; Stones


SPIDERS, by DIANE ACKERMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The eight-legged aerialists
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


SPIDERS, by COLETTE M. BURNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: With space their blackboard, spiders teach
Last Line: Mathematics of the universe.
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs


SPIDERS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Over beds %and often under
Subject(s): Insects


SPLASHING AND SPLATTERING OVER THE TRAILS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The winner! The winner! It's mrs. Molasses! %splat! %that's that
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


STINGS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bare-handed, I hand the combs
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


STINGS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bare-handed, I hand the combs
Last Line: The mausoleum, the wax house
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


STINKBUG, SMELLY FELLOW, HIDING IN THE GROUND, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: It's never any secret where a stinkbug is!
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


STOUT BODIED FLY, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Despised fly with your piercing mouthpiece
Last Line: I hear-buzzing
Subject(s): Flies; Insects


STUDY FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL TRAIL; 4. NEW JERSEY, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So much depends on four butterflies
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


SUFFERING, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sat down on a bumble bee
Last Line: Humiliating pain.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Pain; Beekeeping; Bugs; Suffering; Misery


SWARM, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody is shooting at something in our town
Last Line: Napoleon is pleased, he is pleased with everything. %o europe! O ton of honey!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Napoleon I (1769-1821)


SWARMING BEES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember the evening
Last Line: The black & burned and %crawling deathshead of %my youth's old europe!
Subject(s): Bees; Grant, Heber Jedediah (1856-1945); Insects


SWEET HONEY-SUCKING BEES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Was ever dart so sharp ah then you die
Subject(s): Bees;honey;insects; Beekeeping;bugs


TARANTULA, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm drinking coffee with an olive-skinned woman
Last Line: But the memory of the tarantula, its proximity, defeats me
Subject(s): Insects; Man-woman Relationships; Spiders


TELLING THE BEES, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the old man draws his last breath
Last Line: Wondering which humming body might be his
Subject(s): Bees; Fields; Honey; Insects


TELLING THE BEES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "naiads, and ye pastures cold"
Last Line: Mourn a neighbor and a friend
Subject(s): Bees;insects; Beekeeping;bugs


TELLING THE BEES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is the place; right over the hill
Last Line: "mistress mary is dead and gone!"
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Mourning; Beekeeping; Bugs; Bereavement


TELLING THE BEES (A COLONIAL CUSTOM), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bathsheba came out to the sun
Last Line: Telling the bees.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


TERMITES, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our %high and %mighty %termite
Last Line: Still our hill suits us just fine
Subject(s): Insects


TERMITES, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Then inside's well
Subject(s): Insects


THAT SPIDER YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD...', by CHRISTIAN VIREDAZ    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The sun gently %sets on fire
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


THE AMBITIOUS ANT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ambitious ant would a-travelling go
Last Line: "how glad I am that I crossed the sea!"
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs


THE ANT, by AL-TULAITILI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Slender her flank
Last Line: Of a learned judge.
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs


THE ANT, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant
Last Line: Thinking to save all, we cast all away.
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs


THE ANT-HEAP, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High in the woodland, on the mountain-side
Last Line: The pity they deny.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C.
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs


THE ANT-LION, by THOMAS MILLER (1807-1874)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By digging a hole in the sand
Last Line: And both of us live by slaughter and strife.
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Wasps; Bugs; Yellow Jackets


THE ARRIVAL OF THE BEE BOX, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ordered this, this clean wood box
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BAG OF THE BEE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About the sweet bag of a bee
Last Line: And gave the bag between them.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like trains of cars on tracks of plush
Last Line: Of clovers and of noon!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mark how the neat assiduous bee
Last Line: When smiling youth is past.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What time I paced, at pleasant morn
Last Line: Tampa, florida, 1877.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE AND THE BLOSSOMS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why stand ye idle, blossoms bright
Last Line: "for what thou takest away!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE MEETING, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Fear; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE'S WING, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fill, fill to the brim, let the bubble forth swin
Last Line: "along with the ""bee's wing."
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE-WISP, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our window-panes enthral our summer bees
Last Line: Against the very hand of providence.
Subject(s): Insects; Bugs


THE BEE; AN EPIGRAM: STREPHON TO DELIA, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lovely delia, why so coy?
Last Line: I fear, like bees, he'd raise a swelling.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEE; TO GRANCIS DE MIOMANDRE, by PAUL VALERY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What and how keen and mortal soever
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A garden of mouthings. Purple, scarlet-speckled, black
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Fathers & Daughters; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEES OF MYDDLETON MANOR; 17TH CENTURY, by MAY PROBYN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Buzzing, buzzing, buzzing, my golden-belted bees
Last Line: Middleton luck it's done and dead.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BEES' SONG, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thousandz of thornz there be
Last Line: Of far-away zzzee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BENUMBED BUTTERFLY, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beautiful creature, how I envy thee!
Last Line: Ingrate! Have chattered more than thou art worth.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THE BLUEBELL, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: In love she fell
Last Line: When, lo, he flew away!
Subject(s): Bees; Bluebells; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BUMBLEBEE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You better not fool with a bumblebee!
Last Line: "wears out his welcome too quick fer me!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLIES OF TAIWAN, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I said: because it is the case that
Last Line: Or curious, like the butterflies of taiwan?
Subject(s): Butterflies; Happiness; Insects; Taiwan; Wings; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Formosa


THE BUTTERFLY, by MARGARET AVISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An uproar
Last Line: Towards the subhuman swamp of under-dark?
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLY, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those things / which you so laughingly call
Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLY, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the gorgeous butterfly / in the jubilee of spring
Last Line: By perfidious pleasure's thorn!
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLY, by ALICE ARCHER SEWALL JAMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am not what I was yesterday
Last Line: Take care of me.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's just a monstrous ant with paper wings
Last Line: And haven't seen it make a bit of butter.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Children; Insects; Childhood; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLY, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming with the daffodils and dying with the roses
Last Line: Bears it home to heaven again for lasting joy and deep.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLY, by ADELAIDE O'KEEFFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The butterfly, an idle thing
Last Line: Nor be a butterfly.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, Adelaide
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: He loitered on from flower to flower
Last Line: The monarch of a peaceful breast.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature; Wings; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The butterfly from flower to flower
Last Line: The very glory he had sought.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I watched to-day a butterfly
Last Line: Have raised my thoughts from earth to god.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Earth; Insects; Life; Time; Dead, The; World; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leafless, stemless, floating flower
Last Line: Bearing blossoms of thy kind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alexis seized a prisoned butterfly
Last Line: Claim to such trust, - all nature's underling?'
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLY AND THE ROSE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She pluck'd a wild wood-rose, and fondly strove
Last Line: To hold it, thou hast lightly thrown away!
Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL, by THOMAS ROSCOE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, take up your hats, and away let us haste
Last Line: His merry companions return'd in a throng.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL, by WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, take up your hats, and away let us haste
Last Line: His merry companions returned in a throng.
Subject(s): Insects; Parties; Bugs


THE BUTTERFLY'S FIRST FLIGHT, by AGNES STRICKLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou hast burst from thy prison
Last Line: To pleasure once more.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Flight; Insects; Flying; Bugs


THE CAPTIVE BEE; OR THE LITTLE FILCHER, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As julia once a-slumbering lay
Last Line: Hony enough to fill his hive.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE CATERPILLAR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under this loop of honeysuckle
Last Line: And eat, eat, eat -- as one ought to eat.
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


THE CATERPILLAR, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, that I too could go to sleep
Last Line: The peach-blooms and the daffodils!
Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill
Subject(s): Butterflies; Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


THE COQUETTE (A VILLANELLE), by EUGENIA BRAGG SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I see a dainty butterfly
Last Line: She calls her mate in passing by.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THE CORAL INSECT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Toil on! Toil on!
Last Line: While the wonder and pride of your works remain.
Subject(s): Coral; Insects; Sea; Bugs; Ocean


THE DAVENTRY WONDER; SHOWING HOW FARMER B-LL'S BEES ISSUED ..., by AGRICOLA [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: "now cynthia shone serene, and every star"
Last Line: "let learned macclesfield say what he will, / spite of new style, we'll keep old christmas still"
Alternate Author Name(s): Agricola
Subject(s): Bees;christmas;farm Life;holidays;insects; "beekeeping;nativity, The;agriculture;farmers;bugs;


THE DEAD BUTTERFLY, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now I see its whiteness
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THE DOODLE-BUGS'S CHARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When uncle sidney he comes
Last Line: "come up an' git some bread!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Family Life; Gardens & Gardening; Insects; Relatives; Bugs


THE EARLY BUTTERFLY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trusting the first warm day of spring
Last Line: "that hush'd in grim repose, expect their evening prey."
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THE EXAMPLE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's an example from a butterfly
Last Line: To make a stone a flower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THE EXHAUSTED BUG; FOR MY FATHER, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is a tiny., hard-shelled thing. He is the length of a child's tooth, and
Last Line: Father stretched out in his coffin.
Subject(s): Beetles; Curiosities & Wonders; Death; Fathers & Sons; Insects; Enigmas; Oddities; Dead, The; Bugs


THE FLOWER AND THE BUTTERFLY, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once to the butterfly a floweret sighed
Last Line: "the sky—the mead."
Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Bugs


THE FLOWER SPIDER, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You've read of a spider, I suppose
Last Line: The spider's nature goes!
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs


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 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 GRUMBLING HIVE; OR, KNAVES TURN'D HONEST, by BERNARD MANDEVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A spacious hive well stocked with bees
Last Line: For acorns as for honesty.
Subject(s): Bees; Freedom; Insects; Beekeeping; Liberty; Bugs


THE HEART, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A stumblebum in scree
Last Line: With his throat cut
Subject(s): Butterflies; Hummingbirds; Insects; Bugs


THE HEN AND THE HONEY-BEE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "a lazy hen, -- the story goes"
Last Line: Are doing all the useful labor!
Subject(s): Bees;hens;insects;labor & Laborers; Beekeeping;bugs


THE HOMING BEE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are belted with gold, little brotherb of mine
Last Line: For others, your gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Metaphor; Nature; Beekeeping; Bugs; Similes


THE HONEY BEE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O bee, goodby
Last Line: No second sting.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE HONEYBEE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You do everything, melissa, just the way
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Love - Complaints; Pentastichs; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE HUMBLE BEE, by CATHERINE ANNE DORSET    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good morrow, gentle humble bee
Last Line: To bliss again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Catherine Anne
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE HUMBLE-BEE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Burly, dozing humble-bee, / where thou art is clime for me
Last Line: Thy sleep makes ridiculous.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE HUMMING BIRDS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green wing and ruby throat
Last Line: Sleeps in this bloom; and, when it falls, they go.
Subject(s): Bees; Heaven; Hummingbirds; Insects; Sleep; Summer; Trees; Beekeeping; Paradise; Bugs


THE INTERLUDE, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Much of transfiguration that we hear
Subject(s): Insects; Death; Religion; Transfiguration; Bugs; Dead, The; Theology


THE IRATE BEE, by IDA L. PADELFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Devilish squirmy spider
Last Line: And push my way clean through.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Spiders; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE JEWELS, by MARION J. HEXT    Poem Text                    
First Line: This morning, after last night's rain
Last Line: They were drops of dew in a spider's web.
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs


THE LANAWN SHEE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Powdered and perfumed the full bee
Last Line: We two shall move to fairy places.
Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Happiness; Insects; Ireland; Mythology - Irish; Poppies; Beekeeping; Elves; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Irish


THE LESSON, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother tells little bee
Last Line: Sons of men! Sons of men!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE LINDENS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bees in the lindens booming
Last Line: In three days told.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Nature; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE LOST BUTTERFLY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like some rare flower endowed
Last Line: The welcome music of immortal years.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature; Bugs


THE MARCH BEE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A warning wind finds out my resting-place
Last Line: Still listening to the bee, still basking in the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Bees; England; Insects; Landscape; Beekeeping; English; Bugs


THE MEMORY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the little, crooked street that went to meet the sea
Last Line: The blowing grass, the torn nets -- and one girl's scorning.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Exiles; Insects; Bugs


THE MILLIPEDE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oi! Oi! Noli me tangere, no argument
Subject(s): Insects; Bugs


THE MINIMAL, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I study the lives on a leaf; the little
Subject(s): Insects; Bugs


THE MISTAKEN MOTH, by ? WEGENER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mid the summer flush of roses
Last Line: "butterfly!"
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Kisses; Women; Bugs


THE ORPHIC SOUL, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I walk slowly along
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Self; Soul; Bugs


THE PARLIAMENT OF BEES, by JOHN DAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Abroad, my pretty bees: I hope you'll find
Last Line: From forth our wingèd commonwealth.
Subject(s): Bees; Fantasy; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE PARLOR AND THE FLY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Will you walk into the spider?
Last Line: "he will have no room to spin."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs


THE PINEAPPLES AND THE BEE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pineapples, in triple row
Last Line: Can gather honey from a weed.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Pineapples; Truth; Wisdom; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 159, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On cold mountain there's a naked bug
Last Line: Ready to strike troublesome foes
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Insects; Swords; Wisdom; Buddha; Buddhists; Bugs


THE PRESENT: OR THE BAG OF THE BEE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fly to my mistresse, pretty pilfring bee
Last Line: Tole forth my death; next, to my buryall come.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE QUEEN-BEE FLIES, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High on the breeze flies the virgin-queen of the hive!
Last Line: With your low, slow song, praising -- praising -- eternity-long!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE ROSE AND THE BEE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were a bee and you were a rose
Last Line: "if you were a bee."
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE SECRET OF THE BEES, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How have you managed it? Bright busy bee!
Last Line: And we got our good habits through sheer common-sense.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE SHEPHERD BOY (2), by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fly or beetle on their track
Last Line: The summer long his whole employ --
Subject(s): Insects; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Bugs


THE SILKWORM AND THE CATERPILLAR; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once on a time -- if tales are true
Last Line: The caterpillar of my story!
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Criticism & Critics; Insects; Bugs


THE SOUND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a boy at this time of year
Last Line: I said, if only I could hear them.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Nature; Sound; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE SPIDER, by EDWARD LITTLETON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Artist, that underneath my table / thy curious feature hast displayed
Last Line: Ends both the spider and the poet.
Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Spiders; Wings; Bugs


THE SPIDER, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, look at that great ugly spider!' said ann
Last Line: "that a poor little spider is wiser than you. "
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs


THE SPIDER AND THE BEE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The nymph who walks the public streets
Last Line: By folly your own schemes undo.'
Subject(s): Beauty; Bees; Charm; Desire; Insects; Spiders; Women; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE SPIDER AND THE BEE (A TALE FOR THE TIMES), by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He had closed his volume of theorie
Last Line: This story one tiny superfluous token.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Philosophy & Philosophers; Spiders; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE SPIDER AND THE FLY, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Will you walk into my parlor?' said the spider to the fly
Last Line: The fly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Flattery; Insects; Spiders; Vanity; Bugs


THE SPIDER WEB, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: To-night I am very happy
Last Line: I have taken long in the spinning.
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Weariness; Bugs; Fatigue


THE SPINNERS, by ANNE GOODWIN WINSLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Spider, spinning in the sun
Last Line: That flies no more by day!
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs


THE STUDY OF A SPIDER, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From holy flower to holy flower
Last Line: And from their gibbets take thy dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs


THE SUGAR-CANE: CRESCENDO, by JAMES GRAINGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And pity the poor planter when the blast
Last Line: Bugs of uncommon shape.
Subject(s): Fields; Insects; Nature; Plague; Plantation Life; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs


THE SWARM, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody is shooting at something in our town
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Beekeeping; Bugs


THE TAX-GATHERER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And pray, who are you?
Last Line: "have you nothing for me?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Taxes; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE TICKLE RHYME, by IAN SERRAILLIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who's that tickling my back?' said the wall
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


THE TOAD AND SPIDER; A DUEL, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a day when the dog-star
Last Line: Of his fair aid a monument.
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Toads; Bugs


THE TULIP AND THE LILY, SELECTION, by JAMES BARCLAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: To these proud taunts and more beside
Last Line: "perfumes e'en cloe's fragrant breath."
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Lilies; Beekeeping; Bugs


THE WEDDING, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At noon, tithonus, withered by his singing
Last Line: Woke from the nap, forgetting him; and ate him.
Subject(s): Insects; Love - Nature Of; Mythology - Classical; Spiders; Bugs


THE WHIMS OF THE AMOROUS; A TRUE STORY, REPATED AFTER OLD DOCUMENTS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the hedge the beetle sits sadly
Last Line: Poor bride has long been dead and rotten.
Subject(s): Insects; Love; Marriage; Bugs; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE WHITE BEES, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long ago apollo called to aristaeus
Last Line: Joy and pain of seeking, -- and at last we sleep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Bees; Greece; Insects; Paganism & Pagans; Beekeeping; Greeks; Bugs


THE WOODTICKS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's things out in the forest
Last Line: A-crawlin' thro' yer hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Forests; Insects; Spiders; Trees; Worms; Woods; Bugs


THE YALLER JACKETS' NEST, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could only wander back
Last Line: Round the yaller jackets' nest.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


THEY LOOK, by OSHIMA RYOTA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Those two butterflies
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


THOMAS MERTON AND THE WINTER MARSH, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I went out of the house to smoke. A thousand
Last Line: And mother of christ.
Subject(s): Ascension Day; Cold; Insects; Merton, Thomas (1915-1968); Spiders; Bugs


THREE ANIMALS: THE BUTTERFLY, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The butterfly / flies up like pow
Last Line: "like a woman’s face to pow
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THREE ANIMALS: THE BUTTERFLY, by RON PADGETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The butterfly %flies up like pow
Last Line: Like a woman's face to powder
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


THREE BUGS, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three little bugs in a basket
Last Line: And leave no bug in the cold!
Subject(s): Insects; Bugs


THREE LEIS FOR A PARTING, by WALKER WINSLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not of the flower of ginger, nor of gardenias
Last Line: Pigments the pastels of our waters at dusk.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


THREE PENGUIN CATERPILLARS, by CATHERINE B. TOOSEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Three caterpillars poised: together straight
Last Line: Erect, with white broad breasts and flippers stretched.
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs


THREE THINGS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three things puzzled aristotle's wife:
Last Line: The mind of her man.
Subject(s): Aristotle (384-322 B.c.); Bees; Insects; Reason; Tides; Women


THROUGH THE TANGLE, SOFTLY GLIDING, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: A belly with a head stuck on
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


TICKLE RHYME, by IAN SERRAILLIER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who's that tickling my back?' said the wall
Last Line: Caterpillar. 'I'm learning %to crawl'
Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects


TICKS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not gigan-tic, %not roman-tic
Last Line: Ticks are strictly parasi-tic
Subject(s): Insects


TINIEST OF LIVES, by CHIN JEN-JUI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beneath the leaf a green insect, and frost upon the leaf
Last Line: I'd make you live a thousand autumns, ten thousand years
Subject(s): Insects


TO A BEE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Columbus in velvet, / this afternoon sunny
Last Line: America blooming!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


TO A BEE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Small epicurean, would to heaven that I
Last Line: Still sips and sings the springtide hours away!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


TO A BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou wert out betimes, thou busy busy bee
Last Line: Woe then for thee, thou busy busy bee!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Labor & Laborers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Teaching & Teachers; Beekeeping; Bugs; Work; Workers


TO A BUTTERFLY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Butterfly
Last Line: While with thee I wander!
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature - Religious Aspects; Wandering & Wanderers; Bugs; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


TO A BUTTERFLY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little fluttering beauteous fly
Last Line: For short thy moments of delight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


TO A BUTTERFLY, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL            Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Already in midsummer / I miss your feet and fur
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


TO A BUTTERFLY, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Already in midsummer %I miss your feet and fur
Last Line: Wiles gather dust. Each will have flown %the other's jail
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


TO A BUTTERFLY, by L. PEARL SCHUCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sun is a rose window
Last Line: My breath gauze in my throat. %when you fly, I will follow
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


TO A BUTTERFLY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've watched you now a full half-hour
Last Line: As twenty days are now.
Variant Title(s): To A Butterfly
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Time; Bugs


TO A BUTTERFLY IN A WINDOW, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Escaped thy place of wintry rest
Last Line: And all thou know'st of life be good.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


TO A CHALK-BLUE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Butterflies, butterflies, delicate downy ones
Last Line: Oh, bold little, old little, blue bit of june!
Subject(s): Blue (color); Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


TO A GREEN-CHAFER, ON A WHITE ROSE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You dwell within a lovely bower
Last Line: With baseness and ingratitude.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Beetles; Insects; Bugs


TO A HONEY BEE, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, born to sip the lake or spring
Last Line: We'll tell the hive, you died afloat.
Variant Title(s): On A Honey Bee;the Honey Bee
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


TO A HONEY-BEE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Busy-body, busy-body
Last Line: And turn my work to play.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


TO A LOUSE, ON SEEING ONE ON A LADY'S BONNET AT CHURCH, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ha! Whare ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie!
Last Line: And ev'n devotin!
Subject(s): Insects; Lice; Bugs


TO A MONARCH BUTTERFLY, by LOLA SNEYD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Traveling jewel of the skies
Last Line: I'll remember nature's art
Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects


TO A POET-CRITIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, - the bee sings - I confess it
Last Line: Ef he didn't have no stinger.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bees; Criticism & Critics; Heaven; Insects; Singing & Singers; Beekeeping; Paradise; Bugs


TO A SPIDER, by JESSIE GRAY SHERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh king of silken fabrics, filmy fine
Last Line: What priceless lessons to mankind are taught.
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs


TO A SPIDER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spider! Thou need'st not run in fear about
Last Line: I spin my brains.
Subject(s): Insects; Poetry & Poets; Spiders; Bugs


TO A STEAM ROLLER, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The illustration
Last Line: The congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Steamrollers; Bugs


TO A WILD BEE, by MARY ANN BROWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Roamer of the mountain
Last Line: And thou, thou murmuring bee! Should chorus o'er my grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


TO A YELLOW BUTTERFLY, APRIL 8, 1808, by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail! Loveliest insect of the spring!
Last Line: May'st thou thy transient life enjoy!
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


TO AN ANGRY BEE, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Malicious insect, little vengeful bee
Last Line: Crops sorrow's weed, and treads on pleasure's flower.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


TO AN INSECT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to hear thine earnest voice
Last Line: Than many a kate has done.
Variant Title(s): Katydid
Subject(s): Insects; Katydids; Bugs


TO MRS. PRIESTLEY, WITH SOME DRAWINGS OF BIRDS AND INSECTS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amanda bids; at her command again
Last Line: Yet far, far dearer were the name of friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Drawing; Birds; Insects; Bugs


TO THE BEE BALM, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unmoved I saw you blooming
Last Line: That mirrored maid and flower.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


TO THE BEES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh whither, honey-bees
Last Line: My life that nourish
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Kisses; Life; Lips; Spring; Beekeeping; Bugs


TO THE BURNIE BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blithe son of summer, furl thy filmy wing
Last Line: Fit for the spring that waits beyond the tomb.
Subject(s): Future Life; Insects; Ladybirds; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bugs; Ladybugs


TO THE BUTTERFLY, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Child of the sun! Pursue thy rapturous flight
Last Line: To burst a seraph in the blaze of day!
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


TO THE LADY-BIRD, by CATHERINE ANNE DORSET    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! Lady-bird, lady-bird, why dost thou roam
Last Line: No more from your nest, and your children to roam.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Catherine Anne
Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Bugs; Ladybugs


TO THE LADYBIRD, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home
Last Line: The warming pan.
Variant Title(s): "the Ladybird;""ladybug, Ladybug"";
Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Bugs; Ladybugs


TO THE QUEEN OF THE BEES, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bee! Tell me, whence do you come?
Last Line: A honeycombe.
Variant Title(s): The Messenger
Subject(s): Bees; Honeycombs; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


TO THE SPIDER, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ingenious insect, but of ruthless mould
Last Line: Then most delighted, when his prey is man.
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs


TOTI DEL MONTE (THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT), by RENEE WEISS                       
First Line: Amazing, that opera
Last Line: All those pounds of her, %toti del monte
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


TRANSFORMATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The butterflies are buttercups, wind-blown
Last Line: Are butterflies flight-weary, seeking rest.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Fields; Insects; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs


TREEHOPPERS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They're hip %they hop
Last Line: They'd do %with rope!
Subject(s): Insects


TRIANTIWONTIGONGOLOPE, by C. J. DENNIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a very insect that you do not often spy
Last Line: Tri-ant-wonti- %triantiwontigongolope
Subject(s): Insects


TRIVIAL DETAIL, by VIOLET HELEN FRIEDLAENDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Floating on the water in the a.R.P. Bucket
Last Line: Extraordinarily happy.
Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Life; War; Bugs; Ladybugs


TROPICAL BEETLES, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Composed of horny, jagged blacks
Last Line: And win, when stepped on in the dark, %disgusted exclamations
Subject(s): Beetles; Insects


TWINKLE, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Flash dim to bright
Subject(s): Insects


TWO SONGS: 1, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bee that was searching for sweets one day
Last Line: For to love is sweet, so sweet.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Robins; Beekeeping; Bugs


TWO VOYAGERS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two butterflies went out at noon
Last Line: Report was not to me.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


TYPICAL, by AIME CESAIRE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Incidents along the way
Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Danger; Insects; Travel


UNAPPRECIATED SPIDER, by MICHAEL BURKARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the construction of such other sobbing starts
Last Line: When the unappreciated spider returns to her window just as a reminder
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


UNDER THE THUNDERHEADS, OVER THE TRAILS, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: He's slipping! He's sliding! Get out of the way!
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


UNIVERSE'S GENTLENESS PROVEN IN BUTTERFLY DESIGN, by TINA KELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do not fret, fragilest one
Last Line: Cakemix to the homeless, cans, no canopeners
Subject(s): Butterflies; Colors; Insects; Universe


UP THE DARK VALLEY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the lean road looping the narrow river
Last Line: The birds of darkness sang back every call
Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Locusts; Spiders; Bugs


UPON A MOLE IN CELIA'S BOSOM, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That lovely spot which thou dost see
Last Line: Of the bee's honey and her sting.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Mole (skin Growth); Beekeeping; Bugs


UPON A SPIDER CATCHING A FLY, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou sorrow, venom elf
Last Line: For joy.
Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Puritans In Literature; Spiders; Bugs


USED TO BE A POLLYWOG, AND THEN I MUST HAVE BLINKED, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Slurp a little puddle scum - graaaaaaaaak!
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


VANDALS, BEES, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the poem about the vandals and the bees
Last Line: (yarrow, thistle, wheat, whatever.) %look at me, they yode. Beebeebee!
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Vandalism


VARIOUS OCCASIONS OF INTEREST IN THE FIELDS AND GARDENS: 40, by FAN CH'ENG-TA    Poem Source                    
First Line: He calmly watches a spider weave
Last Line: To help them break the siege
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Insects; Spiders


VIVALDI, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This terrified, castrated parasite
Last Line: Envious and penniless in topeka, or better yet, vienna?
Subject(s): Insects


WAKE UP! WAKE UP!, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Sleeping butterfly
Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


WALKINGSTICK, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The walkingstick is thin, not thick
Last Line: It lives another day to walk
Subject(s): Insects


WALNUTS, by OUIDA LOUISE CHEYNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Walnuts must be cocoons
Last Line: A butterfly.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Walnuts; Bugs


WASPS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: One's for stinging
Subject(s): Insects


WATCHING ANTS, by YANG WAN-LI    Poem Source                    
First Line: When one of them chances to meet another
Last Line: Their wagon train is filled
Subject(s): Ants; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Insects


WATER BOATMEN, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stroke!' %we're water boatmen
Last Line: Rest!' %'rest!'
Subject(s): Insects


WATER BUG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The water bug is drawing the shadows of evening'
Last Line: Toward him across the water
Subject(s): Insects


WATER BUGS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Skimming %skating
Subject(s): Insects


WATER SPIDER, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: But cannot shake the lake
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Spiders; Water


WATER STRIDERS, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whenever we're asked
Last Line: Sunk from view
Subject(s): Insects


WE'RE HOPPING AND KICKING AND THRASHING AND THUMPING, by KURT CYRUS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Pardon my pincher, please
Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects


WEATHER WISE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If bees stay at home / rain will soon come
Last Line: Fine will be the day
Variant Title(s): Bees;the Prophets Of The Hive
Subject(s): Bees;insects;weather; Beekeeping;bugs


WEBS, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I weave a web of song to snare
Last Line: Will flash a word, a song, a wing.
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Weaving & Weavers; Bugs


WEBWORMS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Weave cotton candy %in the trees
Subject(s): Insects


WEEVILS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are weevils %we are evil
Last Line: We are weevils, %we are evil
Subject(s): Insects


WEEVILS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Those weevils eat
Subject(s): Insects


WHEN A BUTTERFLY SEES A FLOWER, by SONG-I    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Which must not come again
Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Hearts; Insects; Love


WHEN DIAMONDS ARE A LEGEND, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And once - a butterfly
Variant Title(s): Poem: 397; Poem: 55
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects


WHILE YOU WRITE THE TINY...', by CHRISTIAN VIREDAZ    Poem Source                    
Last Line: His silk thread like a star
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders


WHIRLIGIG, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're whirligig beetles
Last Line: Best possible %route
Subject(s): Insects


WHIRLIGIG BEETLES, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We whirl, we twirl
Last Line: Without the windup keys or noise
Subject(s): Insects


WILD BEES, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often in summer, on a tarred bridge plank standing
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


WILD BEES, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often in summer, on a tarred bridge plank standing
Last Line: To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


WILD BEES, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These children of the sun which summer brings
Last Line: These sweeten summer in their happy glee %by giving for her honey melody
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


WILD GOATS, by ANICE PAGE COOPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moon is full but it won't spill over
Last Line: Hearts never do.
Subject(s): Bees; Girls; Hearts; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs


WILD HONEY, by RAYMOND HOLDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Still in my fingers the stings
Last Line: And a starless breeze.
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond Peckham
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


WILD HONEY, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where hints of racy sap and gum
Last Line: The pollen-dust of centuries!
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice
Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


WILD-ROSES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Against the dim hot summer blue
Last Line: And brown bees drone their honey-call.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Summer; Beekeeping; Bugs


WINGS, by MINNIE S. HUNTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A butterfly with velvet wings that go
Last Line: One blew down and remained to slumber.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs


WINGS OF LACE, by HILDEGARDE FRIED DREPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pasque flowers hide within their hearts of gold
Last Line: To seed-pearls which take flight on wings of lace.
Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


WINTER BUTTERFLIES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The snowflakes flutter all around
Last Line: To visit boys and girls they love.
Subject(s): Butterflies; Children; Insects; Snow; Childhood; Bugs


WINTERING, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the easy time, there is nothing doing
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs


WINTERING, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the easy time, there is nothing doing
Last Line: The bees are flying. They taste the spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bees; Insects


WITH A RAVENOUS SPIKE, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know that city coyote
Last Line: Housefly sipped with the wine
Subject(s): Animals; Insects


YELLOWJACKETS, by WILLIAM HEYEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How many years past was it I burned out their nest
Last Line: Their buried nest & one who could not live with them
Subject(s): Bees; Death; Future Life; Insects; Memory