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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MICE Matches Found: 95 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` #NAME?, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little pollie pillikins Last Line: Polllie, spare a crumb!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Mice A CONVERSATION WITH A MOUSE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day a mouse called to me from his curly nest Last Line: Of the century when a sleepy mouse brings in the milky way Subject(s): Mice; Milky Wau A MOUSE, A CAT, AND AN IRISH BULL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little mouse nibbled a limburger cheese Last Line: "I should die if I lived on such diet." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Mice AMBITIOUS MOUSE, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If all the world were candy Last Line: Triumphant hour of mouse desire, %to eat a candy cat! Subject(s): Mice AN OLD WOMAN (2), by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old woman / lived under a hill Last Line: Of a mouse in his life. Variant Title(s): Miller And Mouse Subject(s): Mice ANNE AND THE FIELD-MOUSE, by IAN SERRAILLIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We found a mouse in the chalk quarry today Last Line: Leave him alone. November 15th. Anne Subject(s): Mice AT THE CABIN I LEFT HE CANOLA BOTTLE OPEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I had invented the mouse atom bomb Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death - Animals; Mice; Nature BALLAD OF THE MOUSE, by ROBERT WALLACE Poem Source First Line: A mouse the trap had slapped on, but not caught Last Line: Tall, foolish, furious; alone Subject(s): Mice BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And so will I have mine Subject(s): Mice BIRTHDAY CAKE, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: If little mice have birthdays Last Line: I bet a birthday cheese-cake %would please them most of all Subject(s): Birthdays; Mice BOOK 12, #5, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let me live Last Line: Who flatter themselves, believe they can have everything? %mice Subject(s): Fables; Mice CAT AND MOUSE, by ELIZABETH PRATT Poem Text First Line: The claws of life at times remain Last Line: Then you can love and sing -- and pray. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Faith; Life; Mice; Belief; Creed CAT CAME FIDDLING OUT OF A BARN, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We'll have a wedding at our good house Subject(s): Mice CELEBRATION, by MENKE KATZ Poem Source First Line: This is a day wondrous as the five newborn %mice Last Line: For the modest, the unknown, the %wonderdumb Subject(s): Mice CHRISTMAS MOUSE, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: On the soft white snow Last Line: And a sprig of spruce %for a christmas tree? Subject(s): Mice COMING HOME LATE FROM THE TAVERN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But no, the death of a glorious mouse Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Metaphor; Mice; Nature; Poetry And Poets CONVERSATION, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mousie, mousie, %where is your little wee house? Last Line: I'm busy all day,' %said mousie, mousie Subject(s): Mice COUNTRY MOUSE AND THE CITY MOUSE, by RICHARD SCRAFTON SHARPE Poem Source First Line: In a snug little cot lived a fat little mouse Last Line: And I feast on fat bacon and charming grey peas Subject(s): Mice DRAWING, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Small boys and girls can draw a house Last Line: It could, were it self-advertising, %make life and art much more surprising Subject(s): Mice EPITAPH ON A DORMOUSE, WHIKCH SOME CHILDREN WERE TO BURY, by JOHN HUDDLESTONE WYNNE Poem Source First Line: In paper case, %hard by this place Last Line: Repent of yours in time Subject(s): Mice EQUIVALENCE OF GNATS AND MICE, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a pillar of gnats, moving up and down Subject(s): Gnats; Mice ERLE ROBERT'S MICE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tway mice, full blythe and amicable Last Line: Full merveillous, I wote, were swilk denyal. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Mice FACADE: 7. MADAME MOUSE TROTS, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madame mouse trots Last Line: All's well with the world! Subject(s): Mice FEATHER-STITCHING, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: A quick little mouse Last Line: With her fet and her tail Subject(s): Mice FOUR: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a little mouse) and Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Mice FOUR: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a little mouse) and Last Line: Who (look), startled Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Mice FUEL FOR J.S., by DEREK SHEFFIELD Poem Source First Line: A hawk's shadow drove the family Last Line: Pink babies with bulging eyes %until the grimy hands come down Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Hawks; Mice GOOD NEIGHBORS, by MAY JUSTUS Poem Source First Line: A little old woman %and a little old mouse Last Line: And they never, never get %in each other's way at all Subject(s): Mice HICKORY, DICKORY, DOCK / THE MOUSE RAN UP THE CLOCK, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Hickory, dickory, dock. Subject(s): Mice; Clocks HOUSE MOUSE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little brown house mouse, laugh and leap Last Line: As long as you're gone when the cat's awake Subject(s): Mice HOUSE OF THE MOUSE, by LUCY SPRAGUE MITCHELL Poem Source Last Line: Cuddle-down hide-away %house in the grass Subject(s): Mice I AND PANGOR BAN MY CAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Hunting mice is his delight, %hunting words I sit all night Subject(s): Mice IF N OT FOR THE CAT, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mice IN GRANDFATHER'S HOUSE I RAN UP AND DOWN, by DORIS HULME Poem Source Last Line: The comforts of a hole Subject(s): Mice; Riddles LAWS, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A black cat wanders out into Last Line: The mice are constantly surprised Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Mice LIMERICK: EPICURE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "an epicure, dining at crewe / found quite a large mouse in his stew" Last Line: Or the rest will be wanting one too! Variant Title(s): "waiter, Please;an Epicure; Subject(s): Mice LION AND THE MOUSE, by JEFFREYS TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: A lion with the heat oppressed Last Line: Nor shall we ever, if we're wise, %the meanest, %or the least, despise Subject(s): Mice LITTLE MISS LIMBERKIN, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: She frightened a little mouse %out of its dream Subject(s): Mice LITTLE PRIEST OF FELTON, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: He killed a mouse within his house, %and nobody there to help him Subject(s): Mice MICE, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think mice / are rather nice Subject(s): Mice MICE, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I think mice %are rather nice Last Line: But I think mice %are nice Subject(s): Mice MICE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the mice that scare the lions Last Line: Gnawing away the thrones. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Mice; Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Socialism; William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941 MICE WHITE CHRISTMAS, by ALF PROYSEN Poem Source First Line: When winter nites get long and the weather starts to chill Last Line: On christmas eve we'all be glad and sing tra la la la! Subject(s): Mice MIDNIGHT MOUSE, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It midnights, not a moon is out Last Line: She keeps watch in his heaven; all's right. %the midnightmouse Subject(s): Mice MISER AND THE MOUSE, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Says a miser to a mouse, 'my dear mr. Mouse' Last Line: But none would come here to beg, borrow, or board Subject(s): Mice MISS JANE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Miss jane had a bag Last Line: And the dog said, catch him, puss, %soon as you're able Subject(s): Mice MISSING, by ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Has anybody seen my mouse? Last Line: Hasn't anybody seen my mouse? Alternate Author Name(s): Milne, A. A. Subject(s): Mice MOUSE, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little mouse in gray velvet Last Line: And who dresses you in gray velvet? Subject(s): Mice MOUSE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Yesterday at batting practice Last Line: And other things to teach - %but not on any fields that I knew of Subject(s): Baseball; Mice; Sports; Warsaw, Poland MOUSE, by MARY ANN HOBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Dear little %mere little Last Line: That's what I love. That's what I love Subject(s): Mice MOUSE AND THE CAKE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mouse found a beautiful piece of plum-cake Last Line: Or the best of our pleasures may turn into pain Subject(s): Gluttony; Mice MOUSE HEAVEN, by LEAH BODINE DRAKE Poem Source First Line: Heaven is a great house Last Line: Shaken by no giant's feet %thundering overhead Subject(s): Mice MOUSE IN THE WAINSCOT, by IAN SERRAILLIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, suzanne! Last Line: The mouse in the wainscot %is dropping asleep Subject(s): Mice MOUSE NEST IN THE TOE OF MY BOOT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Have I been gone that long? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Mice; Nature MOUSE NIGHT: ONE OF OUR GAMES, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We heard thunder. Nothing great - on high Last Line: It takes a man %to be a mouse this night,' he said Subject(s): Mice MOUSE SEX, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my cellar the poisoned mice, thirsty to death Last Line: Rises about us like a hostile house Subject(s): Mice MOUSE SEX, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my cellar the poisoned mice, thirsty to death Last Line: We enter into one another; the universe %rises about us like a hostile house Subject(s): Mice MOUSE'S NEST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a ball of grass among the hay Last Line: And broad old cesspools glittered in the sun. Subject(s): Mice MOUSE'S TALE, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fury said to %a mouse, that Last Line: Con- %demn %you to %death Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Variant Title(s): The Long Tale; Mouse's Tail; The Tale Of A Mous Subject(s): Mice MY MOUSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A venus seems my mouse Last Line: Keep house. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Memory; Mice; Sea; Ocean NOT HERE, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Searching for pillowcases trimmed Last Line: Or evening paper, unaware Subject(s): Home; Mice O PITY OUR SMALL SIZE, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: O little mouse, so frightened of each sound Last Line: We are so weak. O pity our small size. Subject(s): Mice; Size And Shape OLD SCOTS NURSERY RHYME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was a wee bit mousikie Last Line: O' cheetie-poussie-cattie, o Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Mice ON THE CABIN FLOOR A TRAPPED MOUSE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Allow me to squeak Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Disdain; Mice; Nature ON THE DIFFICULTY OF DRAWING ONESELF UP, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One does not stack Subject(s): Mice POLL PARROT, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little poll parrot / sat in his garret Last Line: And stole it all away. Subject(s): Mice PRAYER OF THE MOUSE, by CARMEN BERNOS DE GASZTOLD Poem Source First Line: I am so little and gray Last Line: Safe from the claws %of that devil with green eyes Subject(s): Mice RODNEY'S TALE, by ENOCH DILLON Poem Source First Line: When rodney was a little mouse Last Line: And warn the other mice Subject(s): Mice SANTA CLAUS AND THE MOUSE, by ANNE EMILIE POULSSON Poem Source First Line: One christmas eve, when santa claus Last Line: The very stocking with the hole %the little mouse gnawed through Alternate Author Name(s): Poulsson, Emilie Subject(s): Mice SIX LITTLE MICE SAT DOWN TO SPIN, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: That may be so, but you don't come in! Subject(s): Cats; Mice THE CAMERONIAN CAT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a cameronian cat Subject(s): Animals;cats;clergy;mice;sabbath; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;sunday THE CITY MOUSE AND THE COUNTRY [OR, GARDEN] MOUSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The city mouse lives in a house Last Line: Poor little timid furry man. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Mice;sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 53 Subject(s): Mice THE FIELD MOUSE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the moon shines o'er the corn Last Line: And the beetle drones his horn. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Mice THE GRAVE OF THE KITCHEN MOUSE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stone says coors Subject(s): Mice; Death - Animals THE HOUSE MOUSE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little brown house mouse, laugh and leap Last Line: As long as you're gone when the cat's awake Subject(s): Mice THE LOVE-SICK FROG, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The frog he would a-wooing go Last Line: Heigh ho! Says anthony rowley. Subject(s): Mice THE MICE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two mice, dear boy, of genteel fashion Last Line: Send a good coat, that's all; good-by, sir. Subject(s): Fables; France; Mice; Mothers; Allegories THE MOUSE, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a mouse Last Line: "is spread any more." Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Mice THE MOUSE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the floor of a parking garage Subject(s): Mice; Death - Animals THE MOUSE'S LULLABY, by PALMER COX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, rock-a-by, baby mouse, rock-a-by, so Last Line: And bring to my baby a fresh penny roll. Subject(s): Mice THE MOUSE'S PETITION TO DOCTOR PRIESTLY FOUND IN THE TRAP .., by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Hear a pensive captive's [or, prisoner's] prayer Last Line: And break the hidden snare. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Variant Title(s): The Mouse's Petition Found In The Trap, Where He Had Been Confined Subject(s): Mice THE SHREWMOUSE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The creatures with the shining eyes Last Line: God smiled when she was born. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Contentment; God; Happiness; Innocence; Mice; Joy; Delight THE TAMED DORMOUSE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a creature, dear to heaven Last Line: Or held it with divided sway. Subject(s): Mice THE WIDOW AND HER CAT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A widow kept a favourite cat Last Line: Here, towzer! -- do him justice.' Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Fables; Honor; Mice; Widows & Widowers; Allegories THEN MOUSETRAPS IN THE CELLAR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Pretty good odds for living Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Death - Animals; Mice; Nature; Rodents THREE BLIND MICE, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three blind mice, three blind mice, / see how they run Last Line: As three blind mice? Subject(s): Mice THREE LITTLE MICE RUN UP THE STAIRS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: The three little mice ran down again Subject(s): Mice THREE LITTLE MICE SAT DOWN TO SPIN, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That may be so, but you don't come in Subject(s): Mice TO A MOUSE, ON TURNING HER UP IN HER NEST WITH THE PLOUGH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie Last Line: I guess an' fear. Variant Title(s): To A Field-mouse Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mice; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO BE A MOUSE, by ALEKSANDER WAT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To be a mouse. Preferably a field mouse. Or a garden mouse Last Line: A palpitating crystal Alternate Author Name(s): Chwat, Aleksander Subject(s): Mice; Poland - Communist Regime WALTZER IN THE HOUSE, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sweet, a delicate white mouse Last Line: She laughs to see his bobbing dance Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Mice WHEN THE CAT IS AWAY, THE MICE MAY PLAY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lady once (so stories say Last Line: Lest she again repent it. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Duplicity; Fables; Mice; Play; Deceit; Allegories WILFUL LITTLE MOUSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Little mouse, little mouse Subject(s): Mice WINTER MOUSE, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: Little mrs. %whitefoot mouse Last Line: And some floss %for quilts and socks? Subject(s): Mice WRITE ME A VERSE; TRIOLET, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I fed some cheese Last Line: To the cellar mice Subject(s): Mice |
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