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Subject: ANIMAL RIGHTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LITTLE GIRL AND A PUSSY-CAT, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said a little girl to a pussy-cat
Last Line: "o little maid!"" said the pussy-cat."
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Cats; Girls; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


A POEM FOR CHILDREN. ON CRUELTY TO THE IRRATIONAL CREATION, by JANE CAVE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! What a cruel wicked thing / for me, who am a little king
Last Line: That I with thee may mercy find.
Alternate Author Name(s): Winscom, Mrs.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Cruelty; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


ANIMAL AND INSECT ACT, by CECIL RAJENDRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Finally, in order to ensure
Last Line: There was now total security
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Discipline; Human Rights; Law And Lawyers; Riots


ANIMAL CONTROL, by JOHN DICKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's seldom I get this close to stark
Last Line: Or lies round and flat on the interstate highway - %a victoral record no one can hear
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Cats


ARTHUR MERVYN; A TALE OF SOCIAL GRIEVANCES: THE PASSING OF ARTHUR, by SAMUEL CARTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You have confessed, and by a recent act
Last Line: Three months' confinement in the common jail.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Confessions; Murder; Penance; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


ARTIC OX, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To wear the artic ox
Last Line: I think that we deserve to freeze
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Musk Oxen


BEAVERS, by GERALD VIZENOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Turn the sixth card over at dawn
Last Line: Beaver near the end in the city
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Beavers; Fur Trade; Hunting; Native Americans - History


BESTIARY, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did he learn this on barefoot walks through wet fields
Last Line: And petulant of her creatures
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Vegetarians; Zoos


CASUALTIES: 9. WHAT THE SQUIRREL SAID, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They killed the lion in his den
Last Line: Of it about us, about our necks
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Bulls; Death - Animals; Hunting; Leopards


COMPASSION; AN ODE IN CELEBRATION ... PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Backward among the dusky years
Last Line: Calls a yet mightier one.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Compassion; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


DRY AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the evening, just before
Last Line: Mountains to eat your tender heart
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Autumn; Innocence; Seasons; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Fall


DRY AUTUMN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the evening, just before
Last Line: Mountains to eat your tender heart
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Autumn; Innocence; Seasons


ELEPHANT, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I said it was an elephant's turd, but fay, six, didn't believe me. She
Last Line: Happier than he already was
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Circus; Elephants; Freedom; Happiness


ENTERING THE SOUTH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have put on my mother's coat
Last Line: Heavy and dark and alive
Subject(s): African Americans; Animal Rights; Fur Trade; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Furs; South (u.s.)


ENTERING THE SOUTH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have put on my mother's coat
Last Line: Heavy and dark and alive
Subject(s): African Americans; Animal Rights; Fur Trade; Southern States


ESSAY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So many poems about the deaths of animals
Last Line: But clearly they do not bother to say good-bye
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Biology & Biologists; Extinct Animals; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


FOR THE DEATH OF 100 WHALES, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hung midsea %like a boat mid-air
Last Line: From the beasts' wet shore
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Whales


FORBIDDEN LOVES, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I knew a youth who, out of love for a rhinoceros, committed
Last Line: The neck of his tall companion
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Rhinoceroses


FORTEMENTE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the silent, scarcely holy night
Last Line: Mouthing our neighbors' worst surmises
Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Hunting


GOD IS THE COW, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Yoke for beggar-cart and plough
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Begging And Beggars; India


HUNTING SEASON, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A bird in the wildwood is singing
Last Line: Life redeemed shall abide in his love.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Birds; Forests; Hunting; Wings; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Woods; Hunters


IN A FOREST, by SHERKO BEKAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Darkness came %and in its lair, a lion thought
Last Line: How could she, she wondered
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Human Rights; Hunger; Hunting; Survival


KINDNESS TO ANIMALS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "little children, never give"
Last Line: Nor do these gentle creatures wrong
Subject(s): Animal Rights;mnemonics; Animal Abuse;vivisection


KINDNESS TO ANIMALS, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Speak gently to the herring and kindly to the calf
Last Line: Be always kind to animals wherever you may be.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


LARGO, by JOHANNES EDFELT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reverence and fear fill us when we are confronted
Last Line: Clamor and the eternity of absolute silence
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Death - Animals; Hunting; Rabbits


LUCKY, by GERDA MAYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: All things bright and beautiful
Last Line: Is working on %eternal life
Subject(s): Animal Rights


MARY'S LAMB, by SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mary had a little lamb
Last Line: If you are always kind.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Sara; Hale, Sarah Josepha
Variant Title(s): Mary And Her Lamb;mary's Little Lamb
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Lambs; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


ON A BOARD BY A HORSE-TROUGH, ROAD SALISBURY TO MARLBOROUGH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man of kindness to his steed is kind
Last Line: He was designed thy servant, not thy drudge, %remember his creator is thy judge
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Horses


PET'S PUNISHMENT, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, if my love offended me
Last Line: And punish her -- with kisses!
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Pets; Women; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


PLEA FOR A CAPTIVE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woman with the caught fox
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Foxes; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


PLEA FOR A CAPTIVE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Woman with the caught fox
Last Line: Kill it at once or let it go
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Foxes


PRAYER FOR GENTLENESS TO ALL CREATURES, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To all the humble beasts there be
Last Line: Our ways with christ's own gentleness!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


SELF PORTRAIT ON A ROCKY MOUNT, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the goat. Caroline by name. Nee 6 january. Domesticated
Last Line: This we call industrial poetry. Both of us being bearded, mystic, horned
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Goats


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 97, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hurt no living thing
Last Line: Nor harmless worms that creep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Environment; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


SOME WINTER SPARROWS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear you already, choir of small wheels
Last Line: To trust, you will not come down
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Death; Fishing And Fishermen; Hunting


THE ARTIC OX, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To wear the artic ox
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Musk Oxen; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


THE COW AND THE ASS, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside [or, hard by] a green meadow a stream used to flow
Last Line: "I really believe that the fellow is right."
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Asses & Mules; Cows; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


THE DEAD PUSSY CAT [OR KITTEN], by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You's as stiff an' as cold as a stone
Last Line: And forget all de kicks of de town
Subject(s): Animal Rights;animals;cats;cold;death;grief; "animal Abuse;vivisection;dead, The;sorrow;sadness;


THE EAGLE AND THE DOVE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Intent on prey, an eagle spread
Last Line: "o wisdom! Thou speakest like a dove!"
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Birds; Eagles; Hunting; Rifles; Wings; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; 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 HUNTING OF THE HARE, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Betwixt two ridges of plowd- [ploughed-] sat [lay] wat
Last Line: Was made for him, to tyrannize upon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Hunting; Rabbits; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hunters; Hares


THE MISTRESS'S REPLY TO HER LITTLE BIRD, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear little bird, don't make this piteous cry
Last Line: But now 'twould kill thee soon, to let thee fly.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Freedom; Pets; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Liberty


THE TASK: BOOK 6. THE WINTER WALK AT NOON, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is in souls a sympathy with sounds
Last Line: Whose approbation prosper--even mine.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Bells; Country Life; Winter; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


THE VIVISECTOR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would I the vivisector's hand enclasp?
Last Line: The baseness is our own, to us the brutal crimes belong.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Physicians; Schools; Science; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Doctors; Students; Scientists


THE WILD HORSE, by MARY ANN BROWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Broad are the palms, whose boughs
Last Line: Of human tyranny is on the earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Horses; Human Behavior; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE WOUNDED HARE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inhuman man! Curse on thy barbarous art
Last Line: And curse the ruffian's aim, and mourn thy hapless fate.
Variant Title(s): On Seeing A Wounded Hare Limp By Me
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Rabbits; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hares


THE YOUNG HUNTER AND THE FAWN, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far in a wide and silent forest's shade
Last Line: "and every wind doth whisper 'murderer!' "
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Deer; Forests; Hunting; Murder; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Woods; Hunters


THOUGHTS ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, by ROD MCKUEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There ought to be capital punishment for cars
Last Line: Should await the driver %driving over a beast
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Automobiles


THREE EPISTLES TO G. LLOYD ON A PASSAGE FROM HOMER'S ILIAD: 2, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your consent I made bold to suppose, in my last
Last Line: If it will not make sense in their own mother tongue.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Apollo; Dogs; Mythology - Classical; Wilderness; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


TRAY, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing me a hero! Quench my thirst
Last Line: "how brain secretes dog's soul, we'll see!'"
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


VEGETARIAN, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: To 'forswear things of the flesh' I thought meant
Last Line: Carnivorous in compassion, my brother ate my portion
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Vegetarians


VILLAGES, by CORRADO GOVONI    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the white campanile a cannonade
Last Line: Amid the ranks of burgeoning wheat, take hope
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Italian Renaissance; Pigs; Roosters


WINTER MEMORY, by GYULA ILLYES    Poem Source                    
First Line: We ate you up, little pig
Last Line: Under the smoke-laden, ash-filled sky
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Farm Life; Pigs


WITNESS, by EMILE KESSLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I behold in labored fields
Last Line: A barren, frigid stall.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animal Abuse; Vivisection