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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHILD'S PET, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I sailed out of baltimore
Last Line: Would stroke that sheep's black nose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Pets; Sheep


A MOUNTAIN STATION, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I bought a run a while ago
Last Line: For sale! A mountain station.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Cattle; Mountains; Rivers; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A SCENE IN THE HIGHLANDS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day in the highlands while taking a stroll
Last Line: "a picture!—a bas-relief surely you mean!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Accidents; Sheep


ALLMAN'S BAR, by TED KENEALLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come and have a drink at allman's,' said a hard-faced lad from yass
Last Line: "but tonight I shore a thousand while you lads were at the bar."
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Work; Workers


ARIEL, by DAVID WATT IAN CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Frost and snow, frost and snow
Subject(s): Sheep


AT SUNDOWN, by FRIEDRIKA HEYL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I close my eyes and see them still
Last Line: Where little sheep are winding still.
Subject(s): Evening; Sheep; Sunset; Twilight


BALLAD AGAINST THE EARLY EVICTIONS TO CLEAR LAND FOR SHEEP, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blacke shepe is a perylous beast
Last Line: Lorde, them confounde by twentye and ten %and fyll their places with cristen men
Subject(s): Sheep


BEYOND HIS JURISDICTION, by HENRY (HARRY) HARBORD MORANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a western manager, and a language-man was he
Last Line: "that narks yez,"" michael answered—""he's a cocky down in vic."
Alternate Author Name(s): Breaker, The; Lumpkin, Tony
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Language; Sheep; Work; Workers; Words; Vocabulary


BLACK SHEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From their folded mates they wander far
Last Line: And marvel, out in the cold.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Hearts; Night; Sheep; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Estrangement; Outcasts; Bedtime; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Fatigue


BLANKET NED, by G. A. H.    Poem Text                    
First Line: We were shearing on the bidgee
Last Line: The lamb in the water-pot.
Subject(s): Fools; Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Idiots; Work; Workers


BLIND SHEEP, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sheep is blind; a passing owl
Last Line: I am a sheep, and not an ass
Subject(s): Blindness; Sheep


BUCOLIC, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Having enough plowshares, %the best in the world, and fat pastures
Last Line: Nodding, whether in agreement or sleep
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Animals; Fields; Sheep


BY FAUGHAN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For hills and woods and streams unsung
Last Line: Between the silence and the wind.
Subject(s): Flowers; Purple (color); Sea; Sheep; Violets; Wind; Ocean


CONSENTMENT, by CATULLE MENDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now ahod on the plain kept countless sheep
Last Line: She took her woollen robe and forth she went.
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Sheep; Nightmares


DE MASSA, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: De massa to de shepa'd say
Last Line: "cu-dey! Cu-dey! Cu-dey!"
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Sheep


DISCOVERY, by RUTH AUGHILTREE    Poem Text                    
First Line: All the long day they hunted for their sheep
Last Line: Not sheep -- but palaces enchanted, tower on tower.
Subject(s): Sheep


DOWN THE RIVER, by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark, the sound of it drawing nearer
Last Line: Down the river that bears him, dead.
Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Travel; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips


FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE WOLF, THE SHEEP, AND THE LAMB, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Duty demands the parent's voice
Last Line: Beneath his jaws the victim dies.
Subject(s): Fables; Lambs; Marriage; Sheep; Wolves; Allegories; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


FLOCKS AND HERDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grey spring day / and a grey sky
Last Line: The grey clouds lie.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Clouds; Gray (color); Lambs; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Grey (color)


GHAZALS: 15, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did this sheep die? The legs are thin, stomach hugely
Last Line: Metaphor for the generally felt hidden-behind-bushes sorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Grief; Sheep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


HAPPY SHEEP, by WILFRID CHARLES THORLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: All through the night the happy sheep
Last Line: Or rise and walk about and eat %the carpet beneath their feet
Subject(s): Sheep


HERE IN THIS PASTURE, by MABEL WARD RUDD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here in this pasture where wandering sheep
Last Line: Of a tender god.
Subject(s): Fields; God; Sanctuaries; Sheep; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


I DON'T GO SHEARING NOW, by W. A. WOODS    Poem Text                    
First Line: So you're off to riverina, where the sun is shining clear
Last Line: The rheumatism takes me, so I don't go shearing now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Drayman, John
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Memory; Sheep; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


IN STONY COUNTRY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere else than these bare uplands dig wells
Last Line: Pillows like these stones for dreaming of angels
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Sheep


LONGIN' FUR TENNESSEE (A LAMENT FROM YANKEE LAND), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, I'm longin' jes'er longin' fur a sight ob / tennessee
Last Line: Fur er grabe in tennessee.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Homesickness; Plantation Life; Sheep; Slavery; Tennessee; Agriculture; Farmers; Serfs


LOOKING AT SHEEP, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, I know. They are like primroses
Last Line: On castles they were the sole cause %of the sun still goes down red
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Sheep


MATANZA TO WELCOME SPRING, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spread eagle sheep legs wide
Subject(s): Spring; Sheep; Death; Birth; Dead, The; Child Birth; Midwifery


NORTHWARD TO THE SHEDS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a whisper from the regions out beyond the barwon banks
Last Line: I can hear the shear-blades clicking, and I know the fight's begun!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Work; Workers


ONE FOR THE SHEEP, by THELMA POIRIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I met a woman in elko
Last Line: Her sheep camp %silent
Subject(s): Ranch Life; Sheep


OUT IN THE PASTURE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sheep have formed
Last Line: Stones in the kyoto garden
Subject(s): Sheep


PASSING OF GUNDAGAI, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll introdooce a friend! He said
Last Line: Was all they saw of 'gundagai'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Marriage; Sheep; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


PERSPECTIVE, by LENA HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I folded trees as shepherds fold their flocks
Last Line: Weaving a seamless robe from broken strands.
Subject(s): Sheep; Trees


POOR LIL' BRACK SHEEP, by ETHEL M. C. BRAZELTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poor lil' brack sheep dat stray'd away
Last Line: An' de lil' brack sheep -- is me!
Subject(s): Religion; Sheep; Theology


ROADSIDE POEMS: THE SHEEP AND THE GOAT, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thousand streets of london gray
Last Line: Thou didst it unto him.
Subject(s): Children; Faith; Goats; Poverty; Sheep; Childhood; Belief; Creed


ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The red deer loves the chaparral
Subject(s): Sheep


ROGER'S SONG, FR. MIDSUMMER EVE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I get no sleep in lambing nights
Last Line: While I do handle the sheep.
Subject(s): Sheep


ROUGH BUSH COUNTRY ON WALL OF MUSTERERS HUT, NEW ZEALAND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The musterers of coleridge %in 1921
Last Line: After swimming through the harper %as he'd never swum before
Subject(s): Sheep


SALTBUSH BILL'S SECOND FIGHT, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The news came down on the castlereagh, and went to the world at / large
Last Line: They wish they could swear like stingy smith when he read that neighbour's note.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Fights; Sheep


SHALL VERMONTERS RAISE SHEEP?, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the boston papers say
Last Line: Until there's more demand for sheep.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


SHEARERS'SONG, FR. KING RENE'S ROMANCE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What do the maids at shearing-time?
Last Line: A maid can clip as well as a man.
Subject(s): Sheep; Women's Rights; Feminism


SHEARING AT CASTLEREAGH, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bell is set a - ringing, and the engine gives a toot
Last Line: Another bale of golden fleece is branded 'castlereagh'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Bells; Racing; Sheep


SHEEP, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was once in baltimore
Last Line: I would not sail again with sheep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Sheep


SHEEP, by F. G. HAGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The seconds drift like sheep that shepherd lack
Last Line: Will white-fleeced sheep drift everlastingly.
Subject(s): Sheep


SHEEP, by WALTER HENDRICKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Think of the child who owns a sheep
Last Line: Who sacrificed his life in vain!
Subject(s): God; Sheep; War


SHEEP, by SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nibble, nibble, little sheep
Subject(s): Sheep


SHEEP, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sheep are gentle, shy and meek
Subject(s): Sheep


SHEEP, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sheep are gentle, shy and meek
Last Line: And left alone they live in peace
Subject(s): Sheep


SHEEP, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thousands of sheep, soft-footed, black-nosed sheep
Last Line: Hills with your hoofs.
Subject(s): Sheep


SHEEP, by JAMES SULLIVAN STARKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slowly they pass
Alternate Author Name(s): O'sullivan, Seumas
Subject(s): Sheep


SHEEP AND LAMBS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: All in the april evening
Last Line: And thought on the lamb of god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Crucifixion; Lambs; Sheep; Childhood; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


SHEEP IN FOG, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hills step off into whiteness
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fog; Horseback Riding; Sheep; Haze


SHEEP IN FOG, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hills step off into whiteness
Last Line: To let me through to a heaven %starless and fatherless, a dark water
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fog; Horseback Riding; Sheep


SHEEP IN THE WINTER NIGHT, by TOM HENNEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside the barn the sheep were standing, pushed close to one another
Last Line: Stand on end was keeping the answer to itself
Subject(s): Animals; Barns; Fields; Sheep


SHEEP IN WINTER, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sheep get up and make their many tracks
Last Line: And shun the hovel where they might be warm.
Subject(s): Sheep; Winter


SHEEP PASSING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mayflies hover through the long evening
Last Line: The way they went is all that is still there
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Sheep; Travel


SHEEP THAT KEEPS ME WARM TO-DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: I hope you are not cold to-day
Subject(s): Sheep


SHEEP-SHEARING SONG; SUSSEX (1), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, all my jolly boys, and we'll together go
Last Line: That if you ha'n't a special care the ram will knock you down
Subject(s): Sheep


SHEEP-SHEARING SONG; SUSSEX (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here the rose-buds in june, and the violets are blowing
Last Line: Oh! The pink and the lily, %and the daffydowndilly, etc
Subject(s): Sheep


SHEILING SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I go where the sheep go
Last Line: There shall we meet!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Love Affairs; Sheep; Travel; Journeys; Trips


SHEPHERD, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The snow buried all the trees, all the trees
Last Line: To make the sheep stop their quiet dismembering in the snow
Subject(s): Sheep; Shepherds And Shepherdesses


SINCE THE COUNTRY CARRIED SHEEP, by HENRY (HARRY) HARBORD MORANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We trucked the cows to homebush, saw the girls, and started back
Last Line: You'd own the place was beggared—since the country carried sheep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Breaker, The; Lumpkin, Tony
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Sheep


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 21, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Haste, my nannette, my lovely maid
Last Line: Though the wolf prowl, and the sheep stray.
Variant Title(s): Nannette
Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Sheep; Wolves


SQUATTERS AND THE REDUCTION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some squatters have commenced to shear
Last Line: "but if you want a thorough doing - / why, just try the overflow"
Subject(s): Deception;honesty;labor & Laborers;sheep;wages; Salaries


TENANTS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As to the old woman
Last Line: In one crow's bill.
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Death; Old Age; Sheep; Dead, The


THE BLIND SHEEP, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sheep is blind; a passing owl
Subject(s): Blindness; Sheep; Visually Handicapped


THE BOSS'S BOOTS, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shearers squint along the pens, they squint along the shoots
Last Line: But pink 'em nice and pretty when you see the boss's boots.
Subject(s): Deception; Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Shoes; Work; Workers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O come, blest spirit! Wheresoe'er thou art
Subject(s): Farm Life; Spring; Seeds; Cheese; Sheep; Agriculture; Farmers


THE FIRE AT THOMPSON'S FORD, by WAMBA [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hottest of hot december's days
Last Line: "'shearers wanted, union rates.'"
Alternate Author Name(s): Wamba
Subject(s): Fire;labor & Laborers;sheep


THE FLEECE: BOOK 1, by JOHN DYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The care of sheep, the labours of the loom
Last Line: To listen; and to view the joyous scene.
Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Fields; Food & Eating; Hunting; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters


THE FLEECE: BOOK 2, by JOHN DYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now of the severed lock begin the song
Last Line: Who toil and wealth exchange for sloth and pride.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Clothing & Dress; Hunting; Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Trade; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hunters; Work; Workers


THE GOOD SHEPHERD WITH THE KID, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save
Last Line: And on his shoulders, not a lamb, a kid.
Subject(s): Goats; God; Religion; Sheep; Theology


THE HERD, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The roaming sheep, forbidden to roam far
Last Line: And at dawn shut into the sunny fold.
Subject(s): Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses


THE HOMECOMING OF THE SHEEP, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sheep are coming home in greece
Last Line: And the climbing moon grows small.
Subject(s): Greece; Sheep; World War I; Greeks; First World War


THE LIKENESS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When I came forth this morn I saw
Last Line: To such white wool, such sparkling grass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Clouds; Sheep


THE LOST SHEEP, by SARAH PRATT MCCLAIN GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: De massa ob de sheepfo!
Last Line: Dey all comes gadderin' in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greene, Sally Pratt Mclean
Variant Title(s): De Sheepfol'
Subject(s): God; Sheep


THE MOUNTAIN SQUATTER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Herein my mountain home
Last Line: All west of gundagai!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Horses; Mountains; Sheep; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THE OLD TIMER'S STEEPLECHASE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sheep were shorn and the wool went down
Last Line: When we raced on the mooki river!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Racing; Sheep


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 28, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A flock of timid sheep
Last Line: Chomp chomp till nothing's left
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Sheep


THE SHEARER'S SERENADE, by PIERRE CASSEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come out, o miss, of yonder 'omestead proud
Last Line: Of really quite innumerable b's.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bushy Bill
Subject(s): Desire; Labor & Laborers; Love; Sheep; Work; Workers


THE SHEEP, by ANN TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lazy sheep, pray tell me why
Last Line: In the grassy fields I lie.
Subject(s): Sheep


THE SHEEP IN THE RUINS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, my friends, and you strangers, all of you,
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Mankind; Sheep; Human Race


THE SHEEP-HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day across the sagebrush flat
Last Line: Thank god! Here comes a man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Solitude; West (u.s.); Loneliness; Southwest; Pacific States


THE TWA HERDS, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O a' ye pious godly flocks
Last Line: May a' pack aff.
Subject(s): Fools; Religion; Sheep; Idiots; Theology


THE TWO DEVINES, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was shearing - time at the myall lake
Last Line: Are the tallies made by the two devines.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Death; Sheep; Dead, The


THOSE NAMES, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shearers sat in the firelight, hearty and hale and strong
Last Line: Just winked with his dexter eyelid, and then he retired to bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Names; Sheep


VERMONT WOOL CARDING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A-when we used to shear the sheep
Last Line: The greeley hat and paisley shawl.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


WAITING FOR THE RAIN, by JOHN SHAW NEILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The weather has been warm for a fortnight now or more
Last Line: For soon we all will vanish like the rain.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Rain; Sheep; Work; Workers


WASHING SHEEP IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's folks that look like other folks
Last Line: There's nothing, sure, like washing sheep.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


WHEN THE SHEEP COME DOWN, by CLYDE ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sheep came down from the hills today
Last Line: I, too, must follow the sheep.
Subject(s): Sheep


WHITE CLOUDS, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: White sheep, dear sheep, with snowy fleece
Last Line: Would you forsake them there?'
Subject(s): Fields; Sheep; Shepherds And Shepherdesses


WHITE ITHAKA, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stars to salute me
Last Line: The chewing of deer, white ithaka
Subject(s): Fields; Sheep


WOLF AND THE SHEEP, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: - I've got you, said the wolf, and yawned. The sheep
Last Line: Sacrifice yourselves for the moral
Subject(s): Life; Sacrifices; Sheep; Wolves