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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MONSTERS Matches Found: 232 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 11-FEB-83, by MAXINE RUTH SOLOW COMBS Poem Source First Line: Outside it's snowing hard enough to freeze a mammoth Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters A BALLAD OF BODING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are sleeping dreams and waking dreams Last Line: Yet kept high festival above sun and moon and star. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life Choices; Monsters; Dreams; Sailing & Sailors A QUADRUPEDREMIAN SONG, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He dreamt that he saw the buffalant Last Line: Came of eating too freely of cake. Subject(s): Monsters ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S ANCIENT TURTLE DANCE, by ALBERT CARL VERNON CLARK Poem Source First Line: Turtle, turtle, come up to breathe Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS WAR, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the council-board of hell, with satan at / their head Last Line: And hell rang with the acclamation of the fiends. Subject(s): Devil; Evil; Hell; Monsters; War; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub ANOTHER COUNTRY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I visited with the porpoises Last Line: That harvest the tuna like wheat Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents ANOTHER COUNTRY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I visited with the porpoises Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters AQUINAS' MONSTER, by KATE FARRELL Poem Source First Line: She was very good with all the chores Last Line: But how ponderous %a hammer Subject(s): Creation; Monsters ASCENSION, by MARGO TAFT STEVER Poem Source First Line: Beads of sweat well up on the sea- Last Line: Seven men inhale the vision, their hearts %slackening with each breath Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters AT LAND'S END, by ART GOODTIMES Poem Source First Line: Vertebrates %we balance the skullcase of ancient apes Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters AUN (24), by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whaling grounds of quintay, empty Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters BABY HARP SEAL, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: When the baby seal looks up Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters BABY WHALE IN CAPTIVITY, by NORMAN ROSTEN Poem Source First Line: I miss the sea most of all Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters BACKWARD YEARS, by JAMES RAGAN Poem Source First Line: These are backward years Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters BAD SNORKELER, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Stands on the anemones as his fins Last Line: So far off nothing translates that he can understand Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Sea Monsters; Swimming BALLADE, by JUDITH MOFFETT Poem Source First Line: The reptile brain is cold and small Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters BE A MONSTER', by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a frightful monster' Last Line: Or it may be she's tricked by me %wearing her grandpa's hat Subject(s): Monsters BEAST, by BRIAN PATTEN Poem Source First Line: Something that was not there before Last Line: Even the stars, this creature %at last come home to me Subject(s): Monsters BEASTS, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time lingers Subject(s): Monsters BEASTS, by KAY RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time lingers Last Line: And don't invite %the rainbow beasts Subject(s): Monsters BEOWULF, by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: What lo! We have heard tell of the grandeur of the kings Last Line: Most genial to his leeds; %and most desirous of praise Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, by UNKNOWN+184 Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: So. The spear-danes in days gone by Last Line: Kindest to his people and keenest to win fame Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: Lo, praise of the prowess of people-kings Last Line: Of men he was the mildest and most beloved %to his kin the kindest, keenest for praise Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: Listen! %the fame of danish kings Last Line: The most just to his people, the most eager for fame Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, SELS., by UNKNOWN+184 Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, SELS., by UNKNOWN+184 Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, SELS., by UNKNOWN+184 Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, SELS., by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF, SELS., by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: Such is the grief of the grey-haired man Last Line: The one he has lost; there is too much room %in castle & country Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Grief; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEOWULF: HROTHGAR ANSWERED, by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: Hrothgar answered -- helm of the shield-danes Last Line: Linked mail-corselets -- if you live to return Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BILLY BRYANT, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Billy bryant met a giant Last Line: Are in intensive care Subject(s): Monsters BOGUS-BOO, by JAMES REEVES Poem Source First Line: The bogus-boo %is a creature who Last Line: He has no bite %and very little bark Subject(s): Monsters BONGALOO, by SPIKE MILLIGAN Poem Source First Line: What is a bongaloo, daddy? Last Line: On a dark sunny night %do you think that I'd tell you a lie? Subject(s): Monsters CANNIBAL HORNER, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Cannibal horner %sat in the corner Last Line: A tasty young morsel am I! Subject(s): Monsters CARETTA CARETTA, by JULIA OLDER Poem Source First Line: The loggerhead turtle Last Line: In a far corner of cassiopeia Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Sea Monsters CASUALTIES: 21. THE BEAST, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long pronounced in tumult underground Last Line: For brother to hurl against brother Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Brothers; Dragons; Fights; Monsters CETUS, A LETTER FROM JONAH, by SIV CEDERING Poem Source First Line: The whales are singing Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters CHILDREN IN FOG, by JR. A. POULIN Poem Source First Line: Ebbtide: a thin fog sails in from the sea Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters CONSIDER THE WHALES (AN ACROSTIC), by JAMES BERTOLINO Poem Source First Line: Let's consider seven whales Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters CORPUS MCCOOL, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Corpus mccool, the clumsy old ghoul Last Line: And it later appeared in a stew Subject(s): Monsters DEATH OF KINGS, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Giant; %sleek master of the oceans Last Line: And we shall have one more kingdom %empty of kings Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Environment; Nature; Sea Monsters DEATH OF THE PILOT WHALES, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every few years, down at the florida keys Last Line: We wish not to think, we tow them bakc to sea, %cut them open and they sink Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters DIFFERING VIEWS OF A DEAD WHALE, by VIRGINIA LINTON Poem Source First Line: Looming monstrous, he shone a hide weathered Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters DOLPHIN WAY, by JR. WILLIAM ARCHIBALD MCGIRT Poem Source First Line: In another age between time of trees Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters DOLPHIN: MONOLOGUE & SONG, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I approached you Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters DOLPHINS, by RICHARD HARTEIS Poem Source First Line: Who hasn't at some point succumbed Last Line: Boy drowned at sea Subject(s): Aids (disease); Dolphins; Environment; Homosexuality; Sea Monsters; Sickness DOZE, by JAMES REEVES Poem Source First Line: Through dangly woods the aimless doze Last Line: And what he wants he never knows - %the damp, despised, and aimless doze Subject(s): Monsters DRAGONS ARE TOO SELDOM, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To actually see an actual marine monster Last Line: Singers sing torture songs we sat around listening to the lo elei lorelising Subject(s): Monsters; Sirens (mythology) DRY TORTUGAS, by EDMUND PENNANT Poem Source First Line: A middle-aged turtle allowed himself Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters DURER WENT TO SKETCH THE WHALE, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER Poem Source First Line: Even though he could do marvelous rabbits Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Environment; Sea Monsters ECOLOGY, by DALLAS EUGENE WIEBE Poem Source First Line: Sea otters backstroke away Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters ELEGY FOR 41 WHALES BEACHED IN FLORENCE, OREGON, JUNE 1979, by LINDA LOUISE BIERDS Poem Source First Line: In the warm rods of your ears Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters ENDANGERED SPECIES, SELS., by DEENA POSY METZGER Poem Source First Line: If it were only a question of whales Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters FINDRINNY, by CHARLOTTE ANNE ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Today (we know so much) Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters FLENSERS, by ROBERT GIBB Poem Source First Line: Torn out of the sea Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters FLONSTER POEM, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flime devoured the floober Last Line: The falkker ate them both Subject(s): Monsters FRANKENSTEIN, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The monster has escaped from the dungeon Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Monsters FRANKENSTEIN GETS HIS MAN, by FRANK CARR Poem Source First Line: When crazy frankenstein pulled down the switch Last Line: He has his head well screwed on,' flann agreed Subject(s): Monsters GIVE US THE ENEMY, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Then after the visible beast Last Line: Give us the enemy: name his name. Subject(s): Enemies; Evil; Monsters GOFONGO, by SPIKE MILLIGAN Poem Source First Line: The gofongo, if you please Last Line: Then he runs away - %and joins the arab army! Subject(s): Monsters GOLIATH, by ATANAS SLAVOV Poem Source First Line: People knew for quite some time Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters GREAT WING OF NEW ENGLAND, by ROBERT HAROLD SIEGEL Poem Source First Line: From sounding depths off martha's vineyard Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters GREENPEACE SCIENTIST DEBATES THE ESKIMO WHALER, by PATRICIA MONAGHAN Poem Source First Line: Flutes: whales respond to their sound Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters GRUESOME, by ROGER MCCOUGH Poem Source First Line: I was sitting in the sitting room Last Line: The very next day he - Subject(s): Monsters HARBOR SEALS, by BARBARA A. HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: First one, then two, another some distance off Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HARP SEALS, by SARAH COTTERILL Poem Source First Line: The cow nudges her young %between ice floes Last Line: Musicians at last for our own pleasure, and %hilarious, in spite of the hunter Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HAVING LOST ALL CAPACITY, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today I read how japanese fishermen %lured thousands of dolphins ashore Last Line: Here in my room, the sons of bitches, %the bastards Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HIDEBEHIND, by MICHAEL ROSEN Poem Source First Line: Have you seen the hidebehind? Last Line: The hidebehind's behind you Subject(s): Monsters HIPPOPOTAMUS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: It was through a stroke of luck that she found the hippopotamus Last Line: The woman sighing as she watched the massive beast sigh Subject(s): Fantasy; Monsters; Mythology HIPPORHINOSTRICOW, by SPIKE MILLIGAN Poem Source First Line: Such a beast is the hipporhinostricow Last Line: The creature to protect you see %from silly people like you and me Subject(s): Monsters HIT IT WITH THE BABY', by ANN RUSSELL DARR Poem Source First Line: Rounding a corner in an open ocean Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HUEVOS MEXICANOS, by MICHAEL GREGORY Poem Source First Line: The full moon gapes onto the beach at nexpa Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HUMPBACKS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is, all around us Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents HUMPBACKS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is, all around us Last Line: Even the great whale, %throbs with song Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HUMPBACKS, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: We know the humpback sings Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters HUMPTY DUMPTY, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Humpty dumpty swam in the sea Last Line: Dear humpty ended up hard-boiled Subject(s): Monsters HUSH, LITTLE MONSTER, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Hush, little monster, don't you whine Last Line: Just come on home to your pappy %and your mummy Subject(s): Monsters I ASK THE WHALE, WHY?, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: For my spout is seen for miles Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters IN A DARK WOOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In a dark, dark wood there was a dark, dark house Last Line: And in that dark, dark box there was - %a monster Subject(s): Monsters INSIDE THE TURTLE, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: My heart once promised Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters IRON HEEL, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Through all the ages Last Line: Fight, fight, fight on! Subject(s): Fights; Monsters ITSY-BITSY SPIDER, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source Last Line: Did not go there again Subject(s): Monsters JACK SPRAT, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source Last Line: And in one swipe %invented lean cuisine Subject(s): Monsters JILL AND JACQUES, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source Last Line: The famous monster caught her Subject(s): Monsters JOURNAL OF THE LAGUNA DE SAN IGNACIO, by NATHANIEL TARN Poem Source First Line: Immense architecture building in air Last Line: Hearing the music of the sirens %thought to be angels... Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters LABYRINTH, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've lost the clue -- somewhere Last Line: The long climb down. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Monsters; Stones; Granite; Rocks LEVIATHAN, by LEWIS PUTNAM TURCO Poem Source First Line: Morning touches the waves and breaks Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters LITTLE MISS MUMMY, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source Last Line: (she kept all her guts in a jar) Subject(s): Monsters LONG-HAIRED GRIGGLE FROM THE LAND OF GRUNCH, by ALICE GILBERT Poem Source Last Line: While nibbling the pebbles that he liked for lunch Subject(s): Monsters LOW TIDE A.M., by JOHN WILLSON Poem Source First Line: An ancient octopus, blasted Last Line: And consign last night to sea water Subject(s): Sea Monsters; Tides MALFEASANCE, by ALAN BOLD Poem Source First Line: It was a dark, dank, dreadful night Last Line: And the people found each other %and thereby hangs a tail Subject(s): Monsters MAMMALS, by ERNEST KROLL Poem Source First Line: The sailor, shipwrecked, treading Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters MAMMALS, by LINDA MCCARRISTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whales are mourning Last Line: In his pen of air - from whom %the wind whips such noises Subject(s): Environment; Mourning; Sea Monsters; Whales MARROG, by R. C. SCRIVEN Poem Source First Line: My desk's at the back of the class Last Line: But I grin to myself, sitting right at the back %and nobody,nobody knows Subject(s): Monsters MARY HAD A VAMPIRE BAT, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source Last Line: Just as mary planned Subject(s): Monsters MINOTAUR, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: The minotaur awoke but didn't feel like moving Last Line: And every spring the minotaur dreamed of another %minotaur Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Monsters; Prisons And Prisoners MINOTAUR, by ROBERT (1) FISHER Poem Source First Line: In the middle of the sea lies an island Last Line: Here is my home %I am - waiting Subject(s): Monsters MISTRESS MARY, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Mistress mary. Scary? Very! Last Line: And now he is looking for mary Subject(s): Monsters MMMMMM, by DONALD FINKEL Poem Source First Line: All night the lady tosses in her sodden sheets Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters MONSTER, by EDWARD LOWBURY Poem Source First Line: A monster who lives in loch ness Last Line: If he weren't, we'd be a mess Subject(s): Monsters; Ness, Loch, Scotland MONSTER, by ELIZABETH WILLIS Poem Source First Line: You wake up crashing through an image of yourself Last Line: Marry the man who saves her Subject(s): Dreams; Monsters MONSTER ALPHABET, by ROBERT (1) FISHER Poem Source First Line: A small dragon, pheonix, centaur Last Line: Yet one more completes our zoo, %zobo bird - so %who are you? Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Monsters MONSTER IN MY CLOSET, by ELIZABETH WINTHROP Poem Source First Line: The monster moved into my closet Last Line: The floor of the closet was clean and bare, %not a shoe did they leave for me Subject(s): Monsters MONSTER MENU (FOR WHEN YOU INVITE A MONSTER FOR LUNCH), by FLORENCE PARRY HEIDE Poem Source First Line: Cold soup (of raw eggs) Last Line: Baked bunions of witches %in bugaboo goo Subject(s): Monsters MONSTER'S BIRTHDAY, by LILIAN MOORE Poem Source First Line: Oh, what a party! Last Line: Happy birthday, dear monster, to you Subject(s): Monsters MONSTER'S PET, by LILIAN MOORE Poem Source First Line: What kind of pet %would a monster get Last Line: Would they go out %for a walk together? Subject(s): Monsters MONSTERS EVERYWHERE, by STEVEN KROLL Poem Source First Line: There are monsters everywhere Last Line: I'd have monster stew for lunch Subject(s): Monsters MONSTRUM (LAT.) FROM THE VERB MONSTRARE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I add to the story, because no doubt Last Line: Your guardian angel, your monster Subject(s): Monsters; Story-telling MORNING, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From high tide in the night a dead Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters MOUNTAIN WIND, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: Watchful, in a canyon resting Last Line: Hurtling to the sea. Subject(s): Sea Monsters; Storms; Wind; Sea Serpents MOURNING, by JEANNE VOEGE Poem Source First Line: In cold morning wind we stand on shore Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters MUNGERY MAN, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: The mungery man and his dangery dog Last Line: As they slowly dissolved into blueberry goo Subject(s): Monsters MUNSTER CHEESE MONSTER, by ALEXANDER RESNIKOFF Poem Source First Line: Poor munster cheese monster Last Line: And he'd probably faint %if you mustered a 'boo!' Subject(s): Monsters NARWHALS, by KATHRYN NOCERINO Poem Source First Line: Under the water they click their horns together Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters NATURE OF THE BEAST, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: Blunt skull of a jaguar, eye Last Line: Into the creature's eyes, its eyes, not each other's Subject(s): Monsters NEMEAN ODES: 8, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With their drawn swords Last Line: Apollos silver bow, and his own fathers thunder too. Subject(s): Hercules; Monsters; Mythology - Classical NEMEAN ODES: 9, by PINDAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And that the grateful gods at last Last Line: Bull, centaur, scorpion, all the radiant monsters there. Subject(s): Hercules; Monsters; Mythology - Classical NESSIE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, it is not an elephant or any such grasshopper Last Line: Will drum me up to london and proclaim my pedigree? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Monsters; Ness, Loch, Scotland NEW PROVIDENCE ISLAND, BAHAMAS, by DONALD KUMMINGS Poem Source First Line: Pallid, bloated as a fish, the day swells with heat Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters NEWT AND THE WHALE, by ROGER CARL PFINGSTON Poem Source First Line: Wait to go %to the whale symposium Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters NIGHT WATCHING, by FREDDA S. PEARLSON Poem Source First Line: Only now does she emerge Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters NORTH JETTY, by DERICK BURLESON Poem Source First Line: Spy satellite sees a blue circle bisected Last Line: Been flowing? Hasn't our blood? Out of reach %a dolphin blows, breathes, sinks Subject(s): Sea; Sea Monsters; Water OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray whales are going south: I see their fountains Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray whales are going south: I see their fountains Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters OF SEALS AND OUR SMILES, by MICHAEL BENEDIKT Poem Source First Line: The last time they did any harm to anyone was 1000's of years ago Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters OGREBRAG, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A callow knight in armor Last Line: A callow knight in armor Subject(s): Monsters OLD MONSTER GOOSE, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source Last Line: On her laptop computer Subject(s): Monsters OLIPHAUNT, by JOHN RONALD RENEL TOLKIEN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Grey as a mouse Last Line: But old oliphaunt am I, %and I never lie Subject(s): Monsters OMBLEY-GOMBLEY, by PETER WESLEY-SMITH Poem Source First Line: Once upon a train track Last Line: And that's the end of that Subject(s): Monsters ON THE WHALES OF THE CALIFORNIA DESERT, by HILLEL SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: They were there once Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters ONE USED TO BE ABLE TO SAY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Even pollute the people under his own roof Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents ONE USED TO BE ABLE TO SAY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters ONE, TWO, LEARN TO SAY BOO!, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source Last Line: Nine, ten, scare the feathers off a hen! Subject(s): Monsters ORCA, by BREWSTER GHISELIN Poem Source First Line: Beastblack under a fin torpedo-swift Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters OTHER LIFE, by CONSTANCE URDANG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know in my other life I am a whale Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters OUR FALL WAS INTO FORGETFULNESS, by JAMES BAKER HALL Poem Source First Line: We see them only when they surface Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters OUT OF THE DARK WOOD, by UNKNOWN+91 Poem Source Last Line: On land. He has been hiding here for %many generations Subject(s): Monsters P'ENG THAT WAS A K'UN, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In northern seas there roams a fish called a k'un Last Line: Though, indeed, neither started as a fish Subject(s): Birds; Fishing And Fishermen; Monsters PASSAGE, by D. E. STEWARD Poem Source First Line: Approaching the walvis ridge and the tropic Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters PASSING OF DOLPHINS, by DAVID B. DE LEEUW Poem Source First Line: Bluegreen bodies moving sleekly in the ocean Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters PIG MOON, TURTLE MOON, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: The moon's horns stick Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters PIRATE PETE, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Pirate pete and pete's pet shark Last Line: Please keep an eye out for pete's ship Subject(s): Monsters PLEASE, JOHNNY!, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shreek is a shiverous beast Last Line: Nothing human could live through its boom. %it's as loud as a boy-and-a-half Subject(s): Monsters PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR, by STEPHANIE DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: For breakfast she drank three of his canned margaritas with fresh Last Line: Neck. His stays work into her ribs, making her breathless Subject(s): Sea Monsters PROTEUS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the splashed cave I found him. Not Last Line: Of his own death by the insatiate sea Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dreams; Monsters; Sleep PUSSYCAT, PUSSYCAT, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been? Last Line: -I pout a wee mouse in her long, %underwear Subject(s): Monsters RAPTURE, by GEOFF PETERSON Poem Source First Line: At death of makin-meang Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters REINCARNATION, by KAY BOYLE Poem Source First Line: There is death in the house Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters REMEMBERING THE SEA ELEPHANT, by WILLIAM PITT ROOT Poem Source First Line: Perhaps it is time for candor Subject(s): Candor; Environment; Sea Monsters ROAST LEVIATHAN, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old jews!' well, david, aren't we? Last Line: Jeered at? Well, let them laugh. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Angels; Feasts; Fights; God; Jews; Monsters; Judaism RUB-A-DUB-DUB, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source Last Line: They hide and wait for you Subject(s): Monsters SANDPIPERS, by MARILYN LERCH Poem Source First Line: Sandpipers tango Last Line: On allegretto feet %between the bar lines Subject(s): Sea; Sea Monsters SATURDAY, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sea monsters Last Line: Trying to become space monsters Subject(s): Monsters SCRIMSHAW, by NANCY ROXBURY KNUTSON Poem Source First Line: There's something wrong Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA OTTER SURVIVAL ASSURED', by PHILIP APPLEMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA STORY, by CLARINDA HARRISS LOTT Poem Source First Line: I find it hard Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA TURTLE, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: Writing news of her nest to foragers Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA TURTLE, by DUANE LOCKE Poem Source First Line: Near st. Augustine there is a shore of rocks Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA TURTLE, by KENNETH GEORGE POBO Poem Source First Line: Before me is a sea turtle Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA TURTLES, by JAN GOODLOE Poem Source First Line: On the summer beaches of trinidad Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEA TURTLES, by EDWARD P. WILLEY Poem Source First Line: Centuries packed into something indifferent Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEALS, by PETER WILD Poem Source First Line: For months desperate for lemons and a passage Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEALS IN PENOBSCOT BAY, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hadn't heard of the atom bomb Last Line: Of guns punched dark holes in the sky Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SEALS IN THE INNER HARBOR, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ducks, at first, except they didn't Last Line: Needing a place to spit and plan %the rescue of children's children Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SHOW, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: At a fair %the one-armed monster Last Line: Their death itself %preserving hope Subject(s): Festivals; Monsters SING A SONG OF SEA SLIME, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Sing a song of sea slime, sewer gas, %and sludge Last Line: I guess I'll lick the floor' Subject(s): Monsters SLITHERY, DITHERY, DOCK, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source Last Line: Smashery, squashery, dock! Subject(s): Monsters SMOOTH AND GLEAMING, by JOHN TAGLIABUE Poem Source First Line: Spending the day Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SNITTERJIPE, by JAMES REEVES Poem Source First Line: In mellowy orchards, rich and ripe Last Line: Has fled afar, and on the green %only his fearsome prints are seen Subject(s): Monsters SONG FOR OSEI BONSU, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: In the cave cut by waves Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SONGS FOR THE SEACOW, by ARTHUR MCA. MILLER Poem Source First Line: It was seventeen days with no water laid like flatiron on the sail Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SPANGLED PANDEMONIUM, by PALMER BROWN Poem Source Last Line: And since he nipped his keeper, %he would just as soon nip you! Subject(s): Monsters SQUID TOWN, KOREA, by CATHY HONG Poem Source First Line: Later, they will turn edible, dry into rich salt hides. But now, they Last Line: Devour all of it, the slimy rawness, severing its ink jet and use its %black to seal my signature Subject(s): Korea; Sea Monsters STILL LIFE WITH MONSTERS AND SHOVEL, by RICHARD SIKEN Poem Source First Line: There's something on the other side Last Line: Wondering if you're dreaming about burying your love, %--or trying now finally to dig it up again Subject(s): Love; Monsters STOVE BOAT', by ANN STANFORD Poem Source First Line: The whale has caught this boat Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters STRANDED WHALES, by MARGARET WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Aground in shallows here, the dark whales lie Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SUICIDES, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ink blot, sperm on a slide, a squirm Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents SUICIDES, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ink blot, sperm on a slide, a squirm Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SUICIDES, by ADRIENNE WOLFERT Poem Source First Line: Red is the sea, the red sea flecked with white Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters SUNRISE WITH SEA MONSTER, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Well, we either do it or we don't, as the pigeon said to the loaf Last Line: But no diminishment, as in 'fancy' and 'open fifths' and environmental sweepstakes' Subject(s): Clouds; Environment; Sea Monsters; Storms; Weather SWANK, by V. C. VICKERS Poem Source First Line: The swank is quick and full of vice Last Line: He bites their legs off and he beats them %into a pulp, and then he eats them Subject(s): Monsters THAT SIMPLE, THAT SOPHISTICATED, by MARIAH BURTON NELSON Poem Source First Line: Sunbathing flat-naked on an empty beach Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters THE AVENGER: INCIDENT IN ITALY, by SAMUEL CARTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The monster seized the shrieking girl Last Line: "been going on from bad to worse." Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Evil; Monsters; Murder; Revenge THE BLACK BEAST, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: Savage limbs of that black beast, the forest Last Line: Somewhere the eyes of the forest glare at the stars. Subject(s): Monsters THE CHANGELING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child with monstrous pumpkin head Last Line: For heaven's sake, drown it or else burn it! Subject(s): Babies; Children; Monsters; Infants; Childhood THE HORNY-GOLOCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The horny-goloch is an awesome beast Last Line: "it has two horns, an' a hantle o' feet, / an' a forkie tailie" Subject(s): Monsters THE KRAKEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Below the thunders of the upper deep Last Line: In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sea Monsters; Supernatural; Sea Serpents THE MERMAID, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet mermaid of the incomparable eyes Last Line: Oh, no. By jove! There comes the white hippocampus. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Sea Monsters; Ocean; Sea Serpents THE MONSTER, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Uprears the monster now his slobberous head Last Line: Each maidly instep mauven-pink is flushing. Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F. Subject(s): Monsters THE RETURN OF FRANKENSTEIN, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He didn't die in the whirlpool by the mill Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Monsters THE SEA-ELEPHANT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trundled from / the strangeness of the sea Last Line: "spring is icummen in --- Subject(s): Sea Monsters THE SEALS IN PENOBSCOT BAY, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hadn't heard of the atom bomb Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents THE TOAD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O who shall tell us of the truth of things? Last Line: The unknowing ass with the all-knowing god. Subject(s): Children; Crime & Criminals; Cruelty; Monsters; Slavery; Childhood; Serfs THE VISITOR, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It came today to visit Subject(s): Monsters THERE ARE DAYS NOW, by MORTON JAY MARCUS Poem Source Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters THERE IS A HUNGRY BOGGART, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source Last Line: He has an allergy to boys Subject(s): Monsters THERE WAS AN OLD ZOMBIE, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: There was an old zombie who lived %in a shoe Last Line: She'll be giving them out next %halloween Subject(s): Monsters THEY ARE RIGHT; THEY ARE AWARE; THEIR AWARENESS IS RIGHTNESS, by PAULA BONNELL Poem Source First Line: Fine animals are full of certainties Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters THIS THING, by MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN Poem Source First Line: I found this thing the other day Last Line: If its sides had been stronger, %I would be here no longer Subject(s): Monsters THOR'S FISHING, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy sky and heavy sea, / running cloud and wind-blown crests Last Line: So was lost the midgard snake. Subject(s): Animals; Fish & Fishing; Monsters; Mythology; Snakes; Anglers; Serpents; Vipers THREE UNKNOWN SEA CREATURES, by MAURA STANTON Poem Source First Line: 1. Holothalma %each curled, glaucous wave Last Line: That swim in and out of view, %eating each other with joy Subject(s): Imagination; Sea Monsters TIDE TURNING, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through salt marsh, grassy channel where the shark's Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Seashore; Tides; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents; Beach; Coast; Shore TIDE TURNING, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through salt marsh, grassy channel where the shark's Last Line: Carouse on the affluent kisses of the tide Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Seashore; Tides TURKEY DISCIPLINE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horrid turkeys! What a pother! Last Line: Evil turkeys-down she fell! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Fear; Monsters; Turkeys TURTLE LADY, by ANN MOCK-BUNTING Poem Source First Line: I am watching fifteen nests now,' the turtle lady said Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters TURTLE ONCE TWINS, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters TWINKLE TWINKLE, LITTLE SLUG, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source Last Line: Crawling on my bedroom rug Subject(s): Monsters UGSTABUGGLE, by PETER WESLEY-SMITH Poem Source First Line: Over by my bedroom wall Last Line: And when I sleep he goes, because %I cannot see him then Subject(s): Monsters VANISHING MAN, by NAOMI LAZARD Poem Source First Line: He puts down the book he was reading Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters VISITOR, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It came today to visit Last Line: And softly went away Subject(s): Monsters WALRUS FACTORY, by BETH JOSELOW Poem Source First Line: In the walrus factory: attention Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WATCHING INTO THE ROCK, by REZSO KESZTHELYI Poem Source First Line: Molluscs sway in her temple Last Line: They turn into flaming quail Subject(s): Sea Monsters WEIRD MOTHER HUBBARD, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Weird mother hubbard went down to %the graveyard Last Line: So weird mother hubbard said, %'take back your toe!' Subject(s): Monsters WENDIGO, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The rest is merely gulps and gollops Subject(s): Monsters WEREWOLF BO-CREEP, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Werewolf bo-creep has lost his sheep Last Line: They're sneaking up behind him Subject(s): Monsters WHALE, by RAYMOND HENRI Poem Source First Line: Before disaster went down to every sea Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALE, by SHEILA BUNKER NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: Pole to pole Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALE, by DOROTHY WARD Poem Source First Line: In the morning he calls her Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALE HUNT, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN Poem Source First Line: I am trying to say Last Line: The words that stick %in my sides like harpoons Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALE SONG, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: Whalebones arc among white stones Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALE TIME, by MARNETTE SAZ Poem Source First Line: Whales at play %take their time Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALE WALKER'S MORNING, by MICHAEL SHORB Poem Source First Line: Few records survive of the whale walkers Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALE-WATCH OFF PORTSMOUTH, by WILLIAM DORESKI Poem Source First Line: The whales burst the chop like roots Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALES SING, by CELIA GILBERT Poem Source Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALES TO OCEANUS, by SARAH BROWN WEITZMAN Poem Source First Line: They went forward Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHALING, by HOWARD NELSON Poem Source First Line: The sailors in their berths half-woke Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WHAT'S THAT?, by FLORENCE PARRY HEIDE Poem Source First Line: What's that? %who's there? Last Line: I wonder if he's thinking %how delicious I will be Subject(s): Monsters WHO KNOWS WHERE THE JOY GOES, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: Is the last dolphin dying? %is there no friend left? %are we here alone? Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters WOUNDED OCEAN, by LENNART BRUCE Poem Source First Line: Is striking out Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters YOUNG KING COLE, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Young king cole was a terrible troll Last Line: And combed his hair with a porcupine Subject(s): Monsters |
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