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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SNAKES Matches Found: 148 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BESTIARY: THE SERPENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A worm thro' the world doth go Last Line: What was given us from on high / let us hold it worthily Subject(s): Animals;snakes; Serpents;vipers A FACE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His face was like a snake's - wrinkled and loose Last Line: And withered. Subject(s): Animals; Old Age; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers A PORTRAIT OF MY ROOF, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My steel roof mirrors clouds Last Line: Unlike anything one finds in reflection Subject(s): Animals; Clouds; Grass; Snakes; Steel; Serpents; Vipers A SCORPION UNDER EVERY STONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "beware the lurking scorpion, friend" Last Line: Leave mysteries alone Subject(s): Animals;snakes; Serpents;vipers A SNAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the swamp with its secrets Last Line: And guile is where it goes. Variant Title(s): Poem: 1740;poem: 1780 Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers A SNAKE ..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snake no bigger Last Line: On the open clasp. Variant Title(s): A Snake Subject(s): Animals; Death; Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers A SNAKE YARN, by W. T. GOODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You talk of snakes,' said jack the rat Last Line: "it was a log!" Alternate Author Name(s): Goodge, William Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Trees; Serpents; Vipers ALL AFTERNOON I HOPE, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source Last Line: Of flame, a flamboyance Subject(s): Animals; Riddles; Snakes AN AMERICAN LOVE-ODE; TAKEN FROM SECOND VOLUME OF MONTAGNE'S ESSAYS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, stay, thou lovely, fearful snake Last Line: Stay, lovely, fearful adder stay. Subject(s): Animals; Love; Montaigne, Michel De (1533-1592); Snakes; United States; Serpents; Vipers; America AN OLD TREMBLING, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often one wonders what the snake does all day in its pit Subject(s): Nature; Snakes ANACONDA, by JUAN CARLOS GALEANO Poem Source First Line: An anaconda lives happily, wrapped around the body of a man %every night Last Line: Has to sleep. A snake has to sleep Subject(s): Animals; Night; Sleep; Snakes BIG FAT GARTER SNAKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For warmth on a cold night Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Cold; Nature; Snakes BLACK SNAKE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the black snake %flashed onto the morning road Last Line: Happily all spring through the green leaves before %he came to the road Subject(s): Animals; Snakes BLACK SNAKE DINES, by VICTORIA ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Under the tree that shades our table Last Line: In the direction that all of us fear Subject(s): Animals; Snakes BLUE OF THE SNAKE IS UNUSUALLY PALE, by KATALIN LADIK Poem Source Last Line: Bitting his own tail and beating pale eggs Subject(s): Animals; Snakes BOA-CONSTRICTOR'S DREAM, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Within his knots a strength mysterious lies Last Line: With grace about a fair arm, round and white Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Reptiles; Snakes CALL FOR THE SNAKES, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Call for the snakes to bear your wrath to the ends of the earth Last Line: Call for the clouds to bear your sorrows to the open seas Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Animals; Snakes COBRA, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This creature fills its mouth with venum Last Line: He who attempts to tease the cobra %is soon a sadder he, and sobra Subject(s): Animals; Cobras; Snakes COLD-BLOODED CREATURES, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, the egregious egoist Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Mankind; Snakes; Human Race; Serpents; Vipers COLD-BLOODED CREATURES, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, the egregious egoist Last Line: Where lidless fishes, broad awake, %swim staring at a night-mare doom Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Mankind; Snakes COMING HOME FROM THE TAVERN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Doglike, the snake is getting comfortable Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes CROTALUS, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No life in earth, or air, or sky Last Line: To lie, untrodden, in the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers DOES A SNAKE HAVE EARS?', by TILLIE FRIEDENBERG Poem Source First Line: No,' the article states Last Line: Lying here in your earthly arms? Subject(s): Animals; Snakes EULOGY FOR A SNAKE HANDLER KILLED BY A CANEBRAKE, by DELISA MULKEY Poem Source First Line: Brothers and sisters, the first time I seen buford shoupe was 1953 Last Line: Defeated death by the sweet kiss of this snake Subject(s): Animals; Death; Snakes EXPERIMENT DEGUSTATORY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gourmet challenged me to eat Last Line: Because it tastes like rattlesnake meat Subject(s): Animals; Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Snakes FAT SNAKE'S GONE THIS YEAR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When she emerges from the strove top Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you or I should die Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Snakes; Desire; Passion; Adultery; Children; Love; Middle Age; Absence; Relationships; Serpents; Vipers; Childhood; Separation; Isolation FIVE HUNDRED A YEAR, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That gilt middle path, which the poet of rome Last Line: I'd gladly give up my five hundred a year. Subject(s): Animals; Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers FLICK, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She's another goner Last Line: Like the shy snake's %after dinner. Subject(s): Animals; Relationships; Snakes FLOWER-PATTERNED SNAKE, by SUH JUNG-JU Poem Source First Line: A back path, steeped in musk and mint Last Line: Twenty-year-old sunie's mouth, beautiful %as a cat's ... Sink down, my snake! Subject(s): Animals; Snakes GARDEN SNAKE, by KATHRYN WINOGRAD Poem Source First Line: Yes, I know the garden Last Line: The whole husk %of me Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes GARDEN SNAKES, by ROBERT MOORE Poem Source First Line: Every summer since we bought this house Last Line: I'd ask him %but just imagine the look I'd get Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Summer GARTER SNAKE IN SPRING, by MICHAEL A. SCHAFFNER Poem Source First Line: Coiled as if to strike, it licks Last Line: It doesn't know how small it is Subject(s): Animals; Snakes GEO-BESTIARY: 31, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few long miles up hog canyon Last Line: To my breast, a truly inventive suicide. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Fear; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers GEORGICS: SNAKES, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I look out at the fields Last Line: Cattle, sheep, goats, dogs, men Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Animals; Snakes GHAZALS: 50, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boot called botte sauvage renders rattlers harmless but they Last Line: Edges are jagged; when cold, the skin peels off the tongue at touch. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Snakes; Women; Serpents; Vipers GIFT, by MARIJANE OSBORN Poem Source First Line: We walk by the river and Last Line: Of elsewhere as I hold it to the sun Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes GRAMMAR, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A garter snake's head pressed to the pavement- Last Line: Around a letter destined for the fire, %and in the tar a striped snake warms itself. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes HAIKU, by TAKAHAMA KYOSHI Poem Source First Line: The snake fled Last Line: Still in the grass Subject(s): Animals; Snakes HAWK AND SNAKE, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go back again Last Line: I peer out from my rocks %coiled in noontime shade Subject(s): Animals; Snakes HOW HARRY KILLED THE SNAKE, by CECIL JAMES KELLY Poem Text First Line: You've heard the tales of droving Last Line: When harry killed the snake. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When the shy snake hisses Last Line: I remember certain kisses. Subject(s): Animals; Kisses; Snakes IN THE BEGINNING, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF Poem Text First Line: This is how he made the snake Last Line: It was dark of the sixth day. Subject(s): Animals; Creation; God; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers INTRODUCTION OF THE BROWN TREE SNAKE, by SARAH LINDSAY Poem Source First Line: The trees fill with silk and the space between trees Last Line: There's another one forty-eight %and a thread breaks over her lips Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Trees JOHNSON'S ANTIDOTE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down along the snakebite river where the overlanders camp Last Line: Somehow seems to dodge the subject of the snakebite antidote. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Life; Snakes; Camps; Summer Camps; Serpents; Vipers KILLING THE SNAKE ON SUMMER'S CUSP, by CATHRYN HANKLA Poem Source First Line: A thin, spotted teenager-still, the copperhead's Last Line: I pretend holds back the beasts Subject(s): Animals; Danger; Poisons And Poisoning; Reptiles; Snakes LAST YEAR THE SNAKE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But not her flesh Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Bodies; Girls; Nature; Snakes LIZARDS AND SNAKES, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the summer road that ran by our front porch Last Line: And swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail Subject(s): Lizards; Snakes; Family Life; Serpents; Vipers; Relatives LOVE, by SAMAR SEN Poem Source First Line: Like a poisonous snake in my blood Last Line: My desire for you %unwinds like a poisonous snake Subject(s): Animals; Love - Nature Of; Snakes MEDALLION, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the gate with star and moon Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers MEDITATIONS OF MAN'S MORTALITIE: ADAM AND EVE, by ALICE SUTCLIFFE Poem Text First Line: Of all the trees that in the garden grew Last Line: And both must dye and turned be to dust. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Eden; Religion; Snakes; Theology; Serpents; Vipers MOJAVE COONTAIL, by JOHN QUINN Poem Source First Line: A muscular buzz in the creosote brush Last Line: Go home to your own troubled lives Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes MY ANGELINE, by HARRY BACHE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She kept her secret well, oh, yes Last Line: My human snake, my angeline! Subject(s): Animals; Marriage; Secrets; Snakes; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serpents; Vipers MY SNAKE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the railroad tracks, on cinders Last Line: None of us ever said a word about it Subject(s): Snakes; Children NEW MEXICAN RIDGE-NOSED RATTLESNAKE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: The face of the snake mirrors the earth Last Line: Rubbed off, abandoned inside-out Subject(s): Animals; Endangered Species; Rare Animals; Snakes NO SNAKE, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside my eden I can find no snake. Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers ODE TO THE CHINESE PAPER SNAKE, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Held on the slightest of bamboo poles Last Line: You are the structure of his massive eye, %and you increase his invioability Subject(s): Animals; Snakes OF A FAIR LADY PLAYING WITH A SNAKE, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that such horror and such grace Last Line: A marble one so warmed would speak. Variant Title(s): To A Fair Lady Playing With A Snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers OF FANGS SWIPES FROM THE EARTH AND AIR, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Their first time out all fledgling Last Line: Always at risk - malarial for life %one bout of flu or grippe can revive the sleeping microbe Variant Title(s): Work Chants Of The Diamond Miner: Of Fangs, Swipes From The Earth An Subject(s): Animals; Mines And Miners; Snakes ON JEAN FRERON, by VOLTAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The other day while in the dale our friend did fare on Last Line: The serpent burst in agony and died of biting! Alternate Author Name(s): Arouet, Francoise Marie Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers ONE AND ONLY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Someone stole a darling snake Last Line: We don't know who. Subject(s): Animals; Crime And Criminals; Snakes; Zoos ONE BITE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The shy snake is too polite Last Line: One bite is all that's needed. Subject(s): Animals; Prudence; Snakes ORIGIN OF THE SNAKE (NURSERY RHYME), by UNKNOWN+172 Poem Source First Line: Up de hill an' down de level Last Line: Devil come an' gits his own Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Animals; Black Songs; Snakes PIT VIPER, by GEORGE STARBUCK Poem Source First Line: A slow buwn %in cold blood Last Line: That joined up Subject(s): Animals; Snakes PYTHON, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A lithe beautiful fear Last Line: It is I who am fugitive %from paradise Subject(s): Animals; Snakes RATTLESNAKE DREAM, by SYBIL ESTESS Poem Source First Line: The dream you had about the six-foot rattler Last Line: The better one as much as you consciously could Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Snakes RAVENESQUE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a golden snake Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Religion; Snakes; Nightmares; Theology; Serpents; Vipers RAVENESQUE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a golden snake Last Line: Which was the unbroken surrender of god Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Religion; Snakes REAL LIFE, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Here we talk without wallets Last Line: Translucency in my hand Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes REPRISALS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our words were spoken, and our hate found tongue Last Line: But with the hissing of a thousand snakes! Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Hate; Malice; Mankind; Poisons & Poisoning; Snakes; Human Race; Serpents; Vipers SECOND SKIN, by GARY SHORT Poem Source First Line: The snake was a gleam twisted Last Line: And what was I? %just a boy in a sack Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SENSEMAYA; CHANT FOR KILLING A SNAKE, by NICOLAS GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: Mayombe-bombe-mayombe! Last Line: Sensemaya, it's dead Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SERPENT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a serpent who had to sing Last Line: As the birds flew off to the end of next week Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SHED LIGHT, by ALICE B. FOGEL Poem Source First Line: Snakeskin spiraling like flute music Last Line: Transparent now as what it housed Subject(s): Animals; Light; Snakes SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES 8TH GRADE: EVERY DAY ANOTHER SNAKE, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And god gave adam hands, fingers Last Line: God's forced to make another snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SKIN, by ANN SPIERS Poem Source First Line: Through a plastic tube Last Line: Only then are we sorry we came Subject(s): Animals; Growth; Skin; Snakes SMALL, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boa, once when you were small, you ate small things. Last Line: Never the pinkness and honey of the human Subject(s): Food & Eating; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snake came to my water-trough Last Line: A pettiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE, by SVETLANA MAKAROVIC Poem Source First Line: Like a noble fire, %poison flares in it Last Line: The grater of summer would %never consume it to the end Subject(s): Animals; Poisons And Poisoning; Reptiles; Snakes SNAKE, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY Poem Text First Line: Poor unpardonable length Last Line: And went on creating. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Close by the creepered wall Last Line: Of the garden, sulking rows that say %the snake is named disorder Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here is the serpent again Variant Title(s): Spring Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here is the serpent again Last Line: I follow the snake down to the pond, %thick and musky he is %as circular as hope Variant Title(s): Sprin Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't ever make Last Line: Might be awake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a young snake glide Last Line: And I may be, some time Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Made of old rags of tongues Last Line: And allow all our body hair to turn green with envy Subject(s): Animals; God; Religion; Snakes SNAKE GAME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry looked like a shoeclerk but was a spellbinder Last Line: Had to take her to the hospital emergency room Subject(s): Animals; Miller, Henry (1891-1980); Pentastichs; Snakes SNAKE IN AUTUMN, by JEFFERY BEAM Poem Source First Line: I could have stood there Last Line: Coiling and un- %coiling Subject(s): Animals; Autumn; Seasons; Snakes SNAKE MAN, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I in your company become the hognose snake Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE ON THE ETOWAH, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kicking through woods and fields, I'd spooked several Last Line: The surface, sidling against the current. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE SONG, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: Toad gots measles Last Line: Pay no mind %these creepy items %close my eyes I %bite 'ems,bite 'ems Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKE SONG, by JOHN S. MBITI Poem Source First Line: Neither legs nor arms have I Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKE STORY, by HENRY JOHNSTONE Poem Source First Line: There was a little serpent and he wouldn't go Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKE WOMAN, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was once the snake woman Last Line: Now I'd consider the snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE WOMAN, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was once the snake woman Last Line: Now, I don't know. %now I'd consider the snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKE-BITE, by CATHERINE FISHER Poem Source First Line: Today is the day she will shed her skin Last Line: The grasses whisper. And look, %her eyes are open Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKEBITE, by MORRIS CREECH Poem Source First Line: For a moment, hunched in his body's glistening fever Last Line: Of the terrible acts by which love is painstakingly known Subject(s): Animals; Grandparents; Snakes SNAKECHARMER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the gods began one world, and man another, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Eden; Snakes; Music & Musicians; Serpents; Vipers SNAKES, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN Poem Source First Line: No, it does not happen Last Line: And I can walk through the woods Subject(s): Animals; Snakes SNAKES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Knowing nothing about snakes, I fear them all Last Line: Can easily overwhelm us. %costa rica Subject(s): Animals; Danger; Death; Poisons And Poisoning; Reptiles; Snakes SNAKESKIN, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is only the old yellow shell Subject(s): Snakes; Time; Serpents; Vipers SONG (1), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me in any shape Last Line: Come, my own! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Love; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers SONG OF THE SERPENT-CHARMERS, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come forth, oh snake! Come forth, oh, glittering snake Last Line: It costs thee dear! Subject(s): Animals; India; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SONG OF THE SNAKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o, snake! Stay, stay, o snake! That my sister" Last Line: "o, snake! Stay, stay, o snake!" Subject(s): Animals;snakes; Serpents;vipers SSSSSSSS, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Keep in shape %use to run in the woods Last Line: He is the subject that %stole urbi's jelly beans Subject(s): Animals; Evil; Fear; Snakes TANKA DIARY (8), by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Hiking; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE BLACK SNAKE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the black snake / flashed onto the morning road Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE BOY AND THE SNAKE, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Henry was every morning fed Last Line: Then lightly tripping, ran away. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Variant Title(s): The Children And The Snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE COBRA CAPELLO, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful - yes! For her basilisk eyes Last Line: She'd crumple it, too, like the innocent fan! Subject(s): Animals; Cobras; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Snakes; Male-female Relations; Serpents; Vipers THE COLUBRIAD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close by the threshold of a door nailed fast Last Line: And taught him never to come there no more. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE COPPERHEAD, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almost blind he takes the soft dying Last Line: With his eyes a moving. A small moving that he knows Subject(s): Snakes THE CROTALUS, by BAILEY MILLARD Poem Text First Line: A coil of browns, a whirr Last Line: Thy chastening rod? Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE DEER AND THE SNAKE, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deer is humble, lovely as god made her Subject(s): Deer; Snakes; Innocence; Serpents; Vipers THE DOUBLE-HEADED SNAKE OF NEWBURY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away in the twilight time Last Line: "the amphisbaena is living still!" Subject(s): Animals; Newbury, Massachusetts; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE ENVOY, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day in that room, a small rat. Last Line: Long-legged and thirsty, covered with foreign dust Subject(s): Rats; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE FASTIDIOUS SERPENT, by HENRY JOHNSTONE Poem Text First Line: There was a snake that dwelt in skye Last Line: His breakfast, dinner and tea, oh. Subject(s): Animals; Food & Eating; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE GIRL WHO BURIED SNAKES IN A JAR, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came to see the bones Subject(s): Snakes; Death - Animals; Serpents; Vipers THE IMAGINED COPPERHEAD, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without intending to hide, Last Line: And his priesthood. Subject(s): Snakes; Childhood Memories; Imagination; Serpents; Vipers; Fancy THE KILLARNEY SNAKE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is the time come? Is it to-morrow yet? Last Line: Is it not come? Is it to-morrow yet? Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Animals; Killarney (lakes), Ireland; Legends, Irish; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE LOVE KISS OF DERMID AND GRAINNE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When by the twilit sea these twain were come Last Line: Far in a phantom dell against a phantom deer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Death; Kisses; Love Affairs; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Snakes; Swallows; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THE MASSASAUGA, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cold coiled line of mottled lead Last Line: Death waits and watches where he lies! Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE RING OF DEATH, by C. G. A. COLLES Poem Text First Line: Where the bourke comes down to the level plains and junctions with the wills Last Line: When the ancient coorabulkas fought their last great fight of all. Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Animals; Curses; Death; Drought; Magic; Snakes; Water; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THE SERPENT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a serpent who had to sing Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SILENT SNAKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The birds go fluttering in the air Last Line: The silent snakes goes creepy-creep! Subject(s): Animals;snakes; Serpents;vipers THE SILKEN SNAKE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For sport my julia threw a lace Last Line: But though it scar'd, it did not bite. Subject(s): Animals; Practical Jokes; Snakes; Pranks; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A narrow fellow in the grass Last Line: And zero at the bone. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snake is the love of a thumb Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love and I, the other day Last Line: "to let it sting one -- don't you think so?" Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't ever make Last Line: Might be awake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a young snake glide Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKE IT WAS THAT DIED, by DEMODOCUS Poem Text First Line: A viper stung a cappadocian's hide Last Line: And poisoned by his blood that instant died. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKES, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the snakes that rowdy saw Last Line: But he thinks of the snakes, and—he lets it go by. Subject(s): Animals; Drinks & Drinking; Hallucinations & Illusions; Snakes; Wine; Serpents; Vipers THE VIPER, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet another great truth I record in my verse Last Line: But after the second you die. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE VIPER, by RUTH PITTER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Barefoot I went and made no sound Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE WHITE SNAKE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a day Last Line: A cold sweat broke out on his upper lip for now he was wise Subject(s): Charms (magic); Snakes; Wisdom 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 TO A KING SNAKE, by LE GARDE S. DOUGHTY Poem Source First Line: I let you flick your sleek fork-lightning spear Subject(s): Animals; Snakes TO A PET COBRA, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With breath indrawn and every nerve alert Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Animals; Snakes TO SETH, TEN YEARS LATER, by ROBERT HILL LONG Poem Source First Line: A sidewinder spelled the first letter of your name Last Line: Shaping what would be the first letter of your first name Subject(s): Animals; Snakes TO THE SNAKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green snake, when I hung you around my neck Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers TWO PARABLES FROM 'THE OCEAN OF STORY': 1, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snake who was afraid of the birdgod garuda Last Line: He changed back into his birdlike form, swooped down, killed the %snake and ate him Variant Title(s): Story Of The Snake Who Told His Secret To A Woma Subject(s): Animals; Snakes UNDER THE SUN, by T. K. ANDRES-EAMES Poem Source First Line: A dying snake gleams upright in the sun Last Line: What darkness makes such oddness of us all Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Snakes VIPER, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Barefoot I went and made no sound Last Line: And gazed when she had gone Subject(s): Animals; Snakes WAR IS KIND: 11, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: On the desert / a silence from the moon's deepest valley Last Line: Is in the dance of the whispering snakes. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Snakes; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Serpents; Vipers WATER SERPENTS (1), by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the lit silk of your naked body Last Line: The dark sailor's body is found Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Water; Serpents; Vipers WATER SERPENTS (1), by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the lit silk of your naked body Last Line: Those brash & roiling fields of ruby kelp where %the dark sailor's body is found Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Water WATER SERPENTS (2), by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they found her daughter in the river Last Line: & everywhere inside her a gallery of faces clenched against her given name Subject(s): Animals; Daughters; Death; Snakes; Water WHISPERED LIES, by SARAH SPENCER ROE Poem Text First Line: Their lies / are snakes, which crawl Last Line: Their sting. Subject(s): Animals; False Accusations; Lies; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers |
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