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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WORMS Matches Found: 35 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A METAPHYSICIAN DREAMS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I had died and that small analyst Last Line: And found himself again where he began. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Soul; Worms; Dead, The; Nightmares ANECDOTE SYMPHONIOUS, by GEORGE JAMES MICHALOPOULOS Poem Text First Line: I gaze at the too beautiful body of you laid down Last Line: Laid down, so rest ... Rest.... Subject(s): Death; Graves; Worms; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones CHRISTMAS DINNER, by MICHAEL ROSEN Poem Source First Line: We were all sitting around the table Last Line: Much nicer place to be - %for a worm Subject(s): Christmas; Worms EARTH, by J. T. BARBARESE Poem Source First Line: Blind in its vitality Last Line: The body longs %too concretely to belong Subject(s): Worms EARTHWORM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We pattern our heaven Last Line: Us even in air Subject(s): Worms EARTHWORM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We pattern our heaven Last Line: Claustrophobia attacks %us even in air Subject(s): Worms FINIS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On softly stepping feet Last Line: And she will no further seek. Subject(s): Clouds; Dawn; Death; Kisses; Worms; Sunrise; Dead, The I AM A SAVER, by MARTHA JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Of worms. On days after rain Last Line: With the slow, make no ally %of busy Subject(s): Worms IN WINTER, IN MY ROOM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This was a dream Subject(s): Worms; Fear LAZARUS, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: He may stumble stiffly -- being obviously dead -- Last Line: To pierce whatever coffins he may wear. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Lazarus; Worms; Dead, The NO SOFTIE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Snail in the light, worm in bed Last Line: But you're no soft mollusc,' she said Subject(s): Beds; Relationships; Snails; Worms NONSENSE RHYMES: 6, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What have you there? Last Line: "no, poor creature!" Subject(s): Nonsense;worms PERFECTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The genomic specialist lies still and warm Last Line: Dreaming of the perfect worm. Subject(s): Dreams; Genetics; Worms SILKWORMS AND SPIDERS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The worm long fosters his transforming sleep Last Line: And we must rest, till god shall tell us more. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Worms; Bugs SONG OF THE WORMS, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have been underground too long Subject(s): Worms STARTLED, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: A startled sparrow startled me Last Line: Your fate's no worse than that of man. Subject(s): Birds; Fate; Worms THE GREAT BLACK CROW, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The crow - the crow! The great black crow! Last Line: But it's fine to live and die like a great black crow! Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Death; Worms; Dead, The THE GRUB, by LINDA GREGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The almost transparent white grub moves Last Line: Touching the frying grease with his whole face Subject(s): Worms THE INNOCENT THIEF, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not a flower can be found in the fields Last Line: Neither honey nor wax would be left. Subject(s): Worms THE LATE WORM, by KAY RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The worms / which had been Subject(s): Worms THE SECRET GARDEN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way you see it first is through Last Line: Before we're through with tea. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Flowers; Food & Eating; Gardens & Gardening; Green (color); Guests; Lilies; Secrets; Tea; Worms; Visiting THE SICK ROSE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O rose, thou art sick! Last Line: Does thy life destroy. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Despair; Flowers; Mythology; Roses; Worms; Dead, The THE VOICE OF THE WORM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prophets and the saints forever keep Last Line: "and cries, ""have courage! Live!" Subject(s): Courage; Death; Devil; Pain; Prophecy & Prophets; Saints; Voices; Worms; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Suffering; Misery THE WOODTICKS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's things out in the forest Last Line: A-crawlin' thro' yer hair. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Forests; Insects; Spiders; Trees; Worms; Woods; Bugs THE WORM, by THOMAS GISBORNE Poem Text First Line: Turn, turn thy hasty foot aside Last Line: The life thou canst not give! Subject(s): Worms THE WORM, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As sally sat upon the ground Last Line: To frighten her away. Subject(s): Girls; Worms THE WORMS' CONTEMPT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What do we earn for all our gentle grace? Last Line: The worms' contempt, that have no time for preaching. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Worms; Dead, The TO MR. JOHN MOORE, AUTHOR OF THE CELEBRATED WORM-POWDER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much, egregious moore, are we Last Line: Who maggots were before. Variant Title(s): Worms Subject(s): Advertising; Worms TWO THOUGHTS OF DEATH: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her heart that loved me once is rottenness Last Line: Their's too shall be as tho' it had not been. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Love; Thought; Worms; Dead, The; Thinking UNDER US, by MOLLY MCQUADE Poem Source First Line: Worms have no minds Last Line: At the work of loving ground Subject(s): Decay; Worms WHERE THEIR WORM DIETH NOT, AND THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In tempest and storm, b;ackness of darkness for ever Last Line: In tempest and storm Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Worms WORM, by RALPH WILHELM BERGENGREN Poem Source First Line: When the earth is turned in spring Last Line: But oh, it makes my mother squirm %because she thinks I ate that worm! Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Worms WORMS, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some days he'd rub two pegs together Last Line: Through the slippery tunnels of worms Subject(s): Worms WORMS, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I always know when spring is here at last Last Line: But bet on worms. Subject(s): Spring; Worms WORMS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the spade turns over, the worms Last Line: All taken in by the darkness of the mouth Subject(s): Worms |
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