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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RAVENS Matches Found: 33 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FABLE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A raven, while with glossy breast Last Line: But in the sunshine strikes the blow. Subject(s): Fate; Ravens; Destiny A FARMER WENT RIDING, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A farmer went riding upon his gray mare Last Line: Lumpety, lumpety, lump! Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Ravens BABYLEAVES THAT KILL THE RAVEN OR THE POSION TREE, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: He ran away on a steamboat, a jalopy but quick. Playing Last Line: When children and school openings collide. In mitsrayim Subject(s): Escapes; Exiles; Ravens BUSINESS OF RAVENS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are these ravens doing in our trees Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Ravens DYING RAVEN, by RICHARD HENRY DANA (1787-1879) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come to these lonely woods to die alone? Last Line: In signs mysterious, written what alone %our hearts may read. - death brings thee rest, poor bird Subject(s): Death; Ravens FALIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the frost-grown city of falias lit by the falling stars Last Line: For the old impossible haven 'mid the old auroral fires? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cold; Desire; Grace; Ravens; Stars FAMISHED STUBBORN RAVENS OF MIKUYU, by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These could not be noah's ravens, these crows Last Line: Thieved from the dustbins we ditched outside? Subject(s): Ravens GOOFY YOUNG BALD EAGLE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A barrel of fish heads and guts Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Eagles; Gulls; Nature; Ravens HIALMAR'S HEART, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A clear night, icy wind, and blood-streams staining Last Line: "my seat where the high gods are in the sun." Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Ravens; War; Dead, The HOW THE RAVEN BECAME BLACK, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a clever classic story Last Line: Gave the bird a lasting stain. Subject(s): Ravens LORD MYTH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow through the room, a rising Last Line: A black feather plunges through the spiraling smoke. Subject(s): Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Ravens; Male-female Relations MAMMON MARRIAGE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The croak of a raven hoar! Last Line: On the dead-sea-shore. Subject(s): Brides; Death; Marriage; Ravens; Skulls; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON HEARING THE CRY OF AN OMINOUS RAVEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Raven! %I am going to die Subject(s): Ravens PROFESSOR RAVEN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: What is man that thou art mindful Last Line: Death remains the wage for sin. Subject(s): Knowledge; Ravens; Science; Teaching & Teachers; Scientists; Educators; Professors PROMETHEUS, by PAUL ARMAND SILVESTRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His galled flesh writhing on the rock, he thrilled Last Line: "the calmness of the heaven that I hate!" Alternate Author Name(s): Silvestre, Armand Subject(s): Prometheus; Ravens RAVEN, by KU SANG Poem Source First Line: Croak croak croak croak %hello, friends Last Line: As if determined to be run over dead Subject(s): Ravens RAVEN, by REG SANER Poem Source First Line: Where summer's best effort is tufts Last Line: Into which they had gone Subject(s): Nature; Ravens RAVEN CONDITIONS, by THORKILD BJORNVIG Poem Source First Line: Two ravens in basel's zoo Last Line: Until it vanished into the sun Subject(s): Ravens RAVEN HAIBUN, by ANDREW SCHELLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anglo-saxen it comes hraefn Subject(s): Ravens RAVEN HAIBUN, by ANDREW SCHELLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anglo-saxen it comes hraefn Last Line: Going to be another %judgment day Subject(s): Ravens RAVEN MEDITATIONS: 1, by BARBARA CURRY MULCAHY Poem Source First Line: Ravens are the remnants of a great civilization Last Line: Foofaraw, like art and literature Subject(s): Ravens RAVEN MEDITATIONS: 2, by BARBARA CURRY MULCAHY Poem Source First Line: Dominus vobiscum Last Line: Dead things and I like the raven Subject(s): Ravens RAVEN MEDITATIONS: 3, by BARBARA CURRY MULCAHY Poem Source First Line: After the end of the world there will be cockroaches Last Line: To scavenge for whatever is there Subject(s): Ravens SONGS ON THE VOICES OF BIRDS; A RAVEN IN A WHITE CHINE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw when I looked up, on either hand Last Line: Cry, thou black prophetess! Lift up! Cry, cry.' Subject(s): Birds; Omens; Prophecy & Prophets; Ravens; Sea; Ocean THE PESSIMIST, OR THE RAVEN AND THE JACKDAW, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Croak - croak - croak! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Jackdaws; Ravens THE RAVEN, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Last Line: Shall be lifted -- nevermore! Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Mysticism; Omens; Ravens; Supernatural; Dead, The THE RAVEN'S SHADOW, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seabird, elemental sprite Last Line: Clasps creation with his claws. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Ravens THE RAVEN'S TOMB, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Build me my tomb,' the raven said Last Line: In his tomb is laid away.' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Graves; Ravens; Tombs; Tombstones THE RAVEN; A CHRISTMAS TALE, TOLD BY A SCHOOL-BOY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Underneath an old oak tree Last Line: They had taken his all, and revenge it was sweet! Subject(s): Ravens THE THREE RAVENS (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: There were three ravens sat on a tree Last Line: "god send every gentleman / such hawkes, such hounds, and such a leman" Subject(s): Ravens THE TWA CORBIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I was walking all alane Last Line: The wind sall blaw for evermair Variant Title(s): The Two Corbies Subject(s): Holidays;new Year;ravens;scotland;tragedy THREE RAVENS (4), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There were three crows sat on a tree Last Line: And pick his eyes out one by one Subject(s): Ravens TREE ALSO DIED THE EXACT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A lower branch Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Nature; Ravens; Trees |
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