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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TEETH Matches Found: 44 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABOUT THE TEETH OF SHARKS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thing about a shark is - teeth Last Line: I’ll never know now! Well, goodbye Subject(s): Sharks; Teeth; Toothaches ABOUT THE TEETH OF SHARKS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thing about a shark is - teeth Last Line: I'll never know now! Well, goodbye Subject(s): Sharks; Teeth ADDRESS TO THE TOOTHACHE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My curse upon thy venom'd stang Last Line: A fowmond's toothache! Variant Title(s): To The Toothache Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches ALL THE WIDE GRIN OF HIM, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is hovering in the air, there, in the highest Last Line: Soft, unsuspecting, milk rimming its grin. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Bombs; Cats; Smiles; Teeth; Toothaches AN UNSUSPECTED FACT, by EDWARD CANNON Poem Text First Line: If down his throat a man should choose Last Line: And he would wipe his feet on that! Subject(s): Nonsense; Teeth; Toothaches APPEARANCE AND REALITY, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Higgledy-piggledy / josephine bonaparte Last Line: Prudence (her teeth were a carious green) Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Reality; Teeth BABY'S GOT A TOOTH, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The telephone rang in my office today, as it often has tinkled before Last Line: "baby, my dear, has a tooth." Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Babies; Teeth; Infants; Toothaches BARRY, by EULA BISS Poem Source First Line: Mom said, 'maybe barry will smile more when he gets his new teeth.' Last Line: With logs, hollowed out with a chainsaw Subject(s): Dentists; Teeth BROWN STUMPS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Don't send up shoots %in spring Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Teeth CLEAR TEETH, by JAMES MCMICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rows of them are quarried from dusty Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches CURE FOR TOOTHACHE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why you should suffer so much pain Last Line: "as ma does,—in a basin?" Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Pain; Teeth; Suffering; Misery; Toothaches DREAM, VAGINA DENTATA, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It has something to do with sex, I've read. Last Line: And incisors from my antarctic mouth Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE LOSS OF HIS TEETH, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An ultimate / in the un-romantic Last Line: Got the teeth in your mouth Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Teeth; Washington, George (1732-1799); Toothaches GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE LOSS OF HIS TEETH, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An ultimate %in the un-romantic Last Line: Got the teeth in your mouth Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Teeth; Washington, George (1732-1799) HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My teeth can write your Last Line: Your sound graffiti-like Subject(s): Teeth; Love HALF-MOONS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Once I had a clean mouth Last Line: Looked great against my teeth Subject(s): Teeth JENNY WI' THE AIRN TEETH, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a plague is this o' mine Last Line: Frichten muckle men. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some asked me where the rubies grew Last Line: The quarelets of pearl. Variant Title(s): The Rock Of Rubies, And The Quarries Of Pearls Subject(s): Pearls; Rubies; Teeth; Toothaches LUMBAGO, by DANIEL CARMICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If horror's cup is no yet full Last Line: I'll back lumbago. Subject(s): Pain; Teeth; Suffering; Misery; Toothaches MAKING MARKS, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No two conventions of teeth behave alike Last Line: This way he gnawed his life and grinned his death Subject(s): Teeth ON A GENTELMAN'S COMPLAINING TO A LADY .. COULD NOT EAT MEAT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you told me, sir, your teeth were loose" Last Line: "then make the most of what is writ, / for here is quantum sufficit" Subject(s): Dieting;food & Eating;teeth; Toothaches POET'S FAREWELL TO HIS TEETH, by WILLIAM DICKEY Poem Source First Line: Now you are going, what can I do but wish you Last Line: And thinking of me with kindness, but not regret, %toast me just once in the local anaestetic Subject(s): Teeth PORCH OF TEETH, by SANDOR WEORES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The place you entered is called Last Line: Are you at peace?' Subject(s): Happiness; Mouths; Peace; Smiles; Teeth RIDDLE: TEETH AND GUMS, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty white horses / upon [or on] a red hill Last Line: Now they stand still. Subject(s): Riddles; Teeth; Toothaches SOMETIMES MY BIG FRONT TEETH BITE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What is this argument all about? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Teeth; Thought TEETH, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Among the first grade set, teeth are uneasy Last Line: Tiny tombstones, shards of the body's pottery Subject(s): Teeth THANK YOU, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thank you for giving me the chance Subject(s): Advertising; Teeth; Self; Careers; Toothaches THE CANDOR OF JULIAS TEETH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White as zenobias teeth, the which the girles Last Line: Of rome did weare for their most precious pearles. Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches THE REBUKE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said brown -- 'when I, myself to rid Last Line: "you might have talk'd gum-arabic!" Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Arabic Language; Teeth; Toothaches THE TOOTH, by REBEKAH CARMICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O look not, lady, with disdain Last Line: Were all their loss a tooth! Alternate Author Name(s): Hay, Mrs. Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches THE TOOTHACHE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Last night, though I had fifty souls Last Line: I could not help cry out -- 'the devil!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches THE TOOTHACHE CURED BY A KISS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate's now grown merciful to men Last Line: As to his heaven, retir'd. Subject(s): Kisses; Teeth; Toothaches THREE TEETH PULLED INCLUDING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The jaw's lonesome holes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Teeth TO OUR HOUSE-DOG CAPTAIN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Captain! We often heretofore Last Line: To drive the pauper from the yard. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Pets; Teeth; Trust; Toothaches TO WOMEN, TO HIDE THEIR TEETH, IF THEY BE ROTTEN OR RUSTY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close keep your lips, if that you meane Subject(s): Mnemonics; Teeth TOM'S TOOTH, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The word went forth in fairyland Last Line: And nevermore came back. Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches TOOTHACHE, by W. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: To have it out or not? That is the question Last Line: "with this regard his footsteps turns away, / scared at the name of dentist" Alternate Author Name(s): W. Subject(s): "dramatists;poetry & Poets;shakespeare, William (1564-1616);teeth;" Toothaches TOOTHACHE, by JOHN YOUNG Poem Text First Line: My sympathy wi' robin gangs Last Line: For curing sairest heartaches. Subject(s): Pain; Teeth; Suffering; Misery; Toothaches TOOTHPULLER WHO WANTED TO TURN A MOUTH INTO A GRINDING MACHINE, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O you who eat with someone else's teeth Last Line: And feels the same as pulling off your head Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Dentists; Food And Eating; Teeth TOTH FARRY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the back of the charm-box, in a sack, the baby Subject(s): Babies; Teeth; Infants; Toothaches TRUE AND FALSE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: After decades in the whirling thick Last Line: Though his teeth are false. Subject(s): Love - Materialism; Teeth UNTITLED, by ANDRE PAKOSIE Poem Source First Line: Just a moment Last Line: Teeth and tongue are going to fight Subject(s): Mouths; Teeth WHEN THE FIRST TEETH GO, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It is infancy's old age Last Line: Let the first teeth go! Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches YOUR TEETH ARE IVORY TOWERS, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are some critics say our verse is bad Last Line: Not therefore uneventful or soon drowned Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Teeth |
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