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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LIONS Matches Found: 69 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BESTIARY: THE LION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The lion from a hill doth hear Last Line: And in no way forsake his will Subject(s): Animals;lions A NUBIAN LION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Monarch dethroned, with eyes where smouldering fires Last Line: With kings we yet may walk among the stars. Subject(s): Animals; Cages; Lions; Nile (river); Wilderness ADDIS ABABA, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Buffaloes, %assorted and gelded Last Line: Of the abyssinian lake Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Animals; Leadership; Lions BUFFALO CLOUDS OVER THE MAESTRO HOON, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a useless thing to do with the morning Last Line: Still strange to one another while on their honeymoons. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Courage; Ignorance; Lions; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls; Valor; Bravery; Dullness; Stupdity CAPTIVE LION, by JUNE DALY Poem Source First Line: Sunset - and his anxious eyes Subject(s): Animals; Lions DEATH OF PLINY THE ELDER: LULL, by CHRISTOPHER PATTON Poem Source First Line: Because the lion loves Last Line: Come upon me %an uncommon calm Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Nature ELEGY FOR WRIGHT & HUGO, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Saint jerome lived with a community Last Line: He was a saint. It was like that... Subject(s): Animals; Donkeys; Hugo, Richard (1923-1982); Jerome, Saint (347-419); Lament; Lions; Wright, James (1927-1980); Burros HARVEST, by YU KYONGHWAN Poem Source First Line: In the golden stubble of paddy field Last Line: A pride of lions Subject(s): Animals; Lions I WONDER IF THE LION KNOWS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: To meet a lion on the street Subject(s): Lions IN THE COURT OF THE LIONS; BY MOONLIGHT, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These lions were sculptured centuries ago Last Line: Still on those courts the white moon shines, but they are gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Alhambra, The; Animals; Lions; Sculpture & Sculptors JEROME, by JACK STEWART Poem Source First Line: The lion has hunted today Subject(s): Animals; Jerome, Saint (347-419); Lions JIM, WHO RAN AWAY FROM HIS NURSE, AND WAS EATEN BY A LION, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a boy whose name was jim Last Line: For fear of finding something worse. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Lions JUNGLE PEST, by ROLAND YOUNG Poem Source First Line: This cheerful picture shows the fate Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Jungles; Lions JUNGLE POOL, by FRANCES SAWYER Poem Text First Line: There was a doe that came for water Last Line: I am the lion waiting there. Subject(s): Animals; Deer; Lions KINGS AND CUBBING, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: They built rosy castles, / and big, winged bulls Last Line: A long time ago! Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Lions; Hunters LEONARDO DA VINCI'S, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint jerome and his lion Subject(s): Animals; Jerome, Saint (347-419); Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Lions; Paintings & Painters LEONARDO DA VINCI'S, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint jerome and his lion Last Line: Lions as symbols of sovereignty Subject(s): Animals; Jerome, Saint (347-419); Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Lions; Paintings And Painters LION, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not that grand, not that masklike Last Line: I say, who have %never known him Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION, by MARY HOWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lion, thou art girt with might! Last Line: All the region is your own! Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lion is a kingly beast Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, weep for mr. And mrs. Bryan! %he was eaten by a lion Last Line: Up and swallowed bryan's bryaness Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lion has a golden mane Last Line: And lets the lioness do the chores Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION AND LIONESS, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night we were together, you and I Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION AND LIONESS, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night we were together, you and I Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION FOR REAL, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came home and found a lion in my living room Last Line: Your starved and ancient presence o lord I wait in my room at your mercy Subject(s): Animals; Homosexuality; Lions LION LION, by THOMAS MOORE RAWORTH Poem Source First Line: The happy hunters are coming back Last Line: In the book they found in the lions' lair Subject(s): Animals; Lions LION PATH, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dare not!- %look! The road is very dark Last Line: Some spitting kittens, maybe, in the grass Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Animals; Lions LIONS AND ANTS, by WALT MASON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once a hunter met a lion near the hungry critter's lair, and the Last Line: Gray, and break our hearts Subject(s): Animals; Lions LIONS ARE INTERESTING, by JOEL BROUWER Poem Source First Line: Each morning in the little white cabin Last Line: His black eyes bottomless and bright with hate Subject(s): Animals; Lions LIONS RUNNING OVER THE GREEN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text Last Line: Lions running over the green Subject(s): Lions LIONS UNDER MAPLES, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lion, awake, is out there Last Line: The great head lift Subject(s): Lions MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.' Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C MISCEGENOUS ZEBRA, by ROLAND YOUNG Poem Source First Line: The zebra, born both black and white Subject(s): Animals; Jungles; Lions; Zebras MORS LEONIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When o'er the aged lion steals Last Line: Yet hast thou perished like a king! Subject(s): Animals; Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Death; Earth; Lions; Sleep; Dead, The; World MOUNTAIN LION, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing through the january snow, into the lobo canyon Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Travel; Journeys; Trips MOUNTAIN LION, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing through the january snow, into the lobo canyon Last Line: Of that slim yellow mountain lion Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Travel ON BAITING THE LION, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering his taste for blood Last Line: And felled him flying through the air Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Lions STILL LIFE IN A HANGAR WITH A LION AND A WOMAN, by STEVE LANGAN Poem Source First Line: Lion's in its cage resting Last Line: On their faces, %on their luxurious cheeks Subject(s): Animals; Lions TELEPATHIC CARNIVORE, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fleece of its ubiquitous mineral body Last Line: In a transcendental verbal swagger Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE BOOKWORM, by CHARLES WILLIAM PEARSON Poem Text First Line: To heroes who on battlefields win fame Last Line: To be that busy idler — a book-worm. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Lions; Nature THE CAGED LION, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: In prison, to and fro you pace Last Line: Puppet of a grinning fate? Subject(s): Animals; Jungles; Lions THE CAPTIVE LION, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou that in fury with thy knotted tail Last Line: Unburied till an earthquake digs his grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE LION, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lion, the lion, he dwells in waste Last Line: And a good little child will not play with him. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE LION, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beasts that be Last Line: Nor ride nor haste. Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE LION, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lion has a golden mane Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE LION AND THE DOG, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let who think of what they will Subject(s): Lions; Dogs; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE LION FOR REAL, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I came home and found a lion in my living room Subject(s): Animals; Gays & Lesbians; Lions; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE LION HOUSE, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Always the heavy air Last Line: For the delight of whom? Subject(s): Animals; Houses; Lions THE LION OF FLORENCE, by GEORGE DONALD Poem Text First Line: In the fair city of florence, on a time Last Line: Then slowly on its way it quietly went. Subject(s): Animals; Babies; Lions; Infants THE LION'S CUB, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The whelp that nipped its mother's dug in turning from her breast Last Line: She bore one cub, one only, but it wears the lion's mane! Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE LION'S DEATH, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A hunter old whom once the desert air Last Line: And like the lion make an end of all? Subject(s): Animals; Death; Hearts; Lions; Dead, The THE LION'S RIDE, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lion is the desert's king; through his domain so wide Last Line: Thus nightly, o'er his broad domain, the king of beasts doth ride. Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE LION'S RIDE, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King of deserts reigns the lion; will he through his realm go riding Last Line: Thus the king of beasts his journey nightly through his empire makes. Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE LION'S SKELETON, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, o lion, hast thou fleshless lain? Last Line: Have sifted out the substance of thy feet. Subject(s): Animals; Decay; Lions; Skeletons; Rot; Decadence THE LITTLE GIRL FOUND, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the night in woe Last Line: Nor the lion's growl. Subject(s): Animals; Bible; Girls; Lions; Mythology THE LONELY LION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lion was lonely Last Line: "and must I then live forever alone?" Subject(s): Animals; Lions; Solitude; Loneliness THE NIGHT OF THE LION, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their day was at twelve of the night Last Line: His freedom shall not end. Subject(s): Admirals; Animals; Eyes; Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Lions; Night; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire; Bedtime THE TELEPATHIC CARNIVORE, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fleece of its ubiquitous mineral body Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE TWO LIONS, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two lions stand upon my path Last Line: Yesterday and to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE WATCHERS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With eerie cadence hoots the owl Last Line: The lions wait and watch the hour! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Animals; Lions THE WILD BEAST, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One spring as I went walking Last Line: Upon an easter morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fights; Lions THE YOUNG LION AND THE APE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true I blame your lover's choice Last Line: And pays with interest scorn for scorn.' Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Beauty; Charm; Fables; Lions; Women; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Allegories THEY FEED THEY LION, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Food & Eating; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Lions; Nightmares; Work; Workers THEY FEED THEY LION, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter Last Line: They feed they lion and he comes Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Food And Eating; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Lions TO A CAGED LION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor conquered monarch! Though that haughty glance Last Line: Must bow thy savage strength, the mockery of a child! Subject(s): Animals; Lions TO LADY ASTOR, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, beauteous lady, world renowned Last Line: "to ""pussyfoot"" his diet!" Subject(s): Animals; Astor, Nancy, Viscountess (1879-1964); Lions; Politics & Government; Women's Rights; Feminism UMUGABO MUKAGA, by DERICK BURLESON Poem Source First Line: Here's a man with a problem Last Line: Fingering his machete wondering if it's sharp enough %he's going to have a big problem too Subject(s): Animals; Crocodiles; Lions; Pythons; Rwanda WHAT IS LONDON'S LAST NEW LION?, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is london's last new lion? Pray, inform me if you can Last Line: What is london's last new lion? Pray, inform me if you can. Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Animals; Lions; London WHY NOBODY PETS THE LION AT THE ZOO, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning that the world began Subject(s): Lions |
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