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Subject: ANTS Matches Found: 39 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BESTIARY: THE ANT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the ant is mighty, tho' small" Last Line: "now, and on the last great day, / when we be in need" Subject(s): Ants;insects; Bugs ALPHABESTIARY: A, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A is for ant Last Line: Practically %forever Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Ants; Insects ANOTHER SPRING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Over the breadboard Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Nature; Spring ANT, by ZOE BAILEY Poem Source First Line: Black is his color Last Line: Towards some crack in an enormous ark Subject(s): Animals; Ants; Insects ANT, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ant has made himself illustrious Last Line: If you were full of formic acid? Subject(s): Ants; Insects ANT AND THE THERAPIST, by GAIL MARTIN Poem Source First Line: We know you hate us. We startle Last Line: And tunneling toward darkness Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Psychiatry ANT HILL, by CYNTHIA ZARIN Poem Source First Line: Sand pyramid, size of a child, each september Last Line: Turned violet as its shadow Subject(s): Ants; Insects ANT MANSION, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rubbing of the sleeping bag on my ear made me dream Last Line: My father's labor who sees? It is in a pasture somewhere %not yet found by a walker Variant Title(s): Finding An Old Ant Mansio Subject(s): Ants; Insects ANT WORLD: THE LEAF-CUTTERS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Cross-sectioned and cubed Last Line: Leaf bit by leaf bit Subject(s): Ants; Farm Life; Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Insects; Leaves; Nature; Trees ANTS, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We tunnel through your noonday out to you Last Line: Carry at least her parasites below Subject(s): Ants; Insects ANTS, by DAISY WRIGHT FIELD Poem Text First Line: I read of a man who was tied down Last Line: By the little things. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Wright Subject(s): Ants; Duty; Insects; Women; Bugs ANTS, by KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN Poem Source First Line: I stood in my mother's kitchen Subject(s): Ants; Insects ANTS AND OTHERS, by ADRIEN STOUTENBURG Poem Source First Line: Their spare, frantic sentry comes Last Line: Of loaves and fishes everywhere Subject(s): Ants; Insects ANTS CRAWL, by ELEANOR SCHICK Poem Source Last Line: To them Subject(s): Animals; Ants; Insects BEASTS, SELS., by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: The ant-heaps furthest in Last Line: And they get the better of deepest winters %in another deep Subject(s): Animals; Ants; Insects BIOMASS OF ANTS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of small homes, hard work, big women Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Nature CIGARILLO, by CATE MARVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The visit of a body. Ants gathered sugar Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs CIGARILLO, by CATE MARVIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The visit of a body. Ants gathered sugar Last Line: Sweet. The ants took to their path on the counter Subject(s): Ants; Insects DEPARTMENTAL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: An ant on the table cloth Last Line: But how thoroughly departmental Subject(s): Ants; Bureaucracy; Insects; Bugs DEPARTMENTAL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An ant on the table cloth Last Line: But how thoroughly departmental Subject(s): Ants; Bureaucracy; Insects DISASTER, by MAY FAIR Poem Text First Line: A mossy knoll under a dogwood tree Last Line: And plodding on, knew not their writhing pain. Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs EMMET, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The emmet is an ant (archaic) Last Line: Not so its ancestor, the emmet, %which perished crying 'zounds!' or 'demmit!' Subject(s): Ants; Insects FABLES: 1ST SER. 38. THE TURKEY AND THE ANT, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In other men we faults can spy Last Line: Nor for a breakfast nations kill. Subject(s): Ants; Food & Eating; Insects; Turkeys; Bugs FABLES: 2ND SER. 4. THE ANT IN OFFICE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You tell me that you apprehend Last Line: As due, to publick use restor'd. Subject(s): Ants; Corruption In Politics; Insects; Bugs IMMANENT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drone of war-plane neared,and dimmed away Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Ants; Insects KILLING THE ANTS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Flies are shooed from my house, spiders coaxed Last Line: Acid drifts like an acrid perfume Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Judgments; Trials KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out from jerusalem Last Line: "than flatteries of the great." Subject(s): Ants; Bible; Insects; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Bugs; Theology PROBLEM WITH POETRY, by MARTIN ARNOLD Poem Source Last Line: In silence could only have been %because of greed Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Self SOLOMON AND THE ANTS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the kings of fallen earth Last Line: The strongest of the strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Bugs THE AMBITIOUS ANT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ambitious ant would a-travelling go Last Line: "how glad I am that I crossed the sea!" Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs THE ANT, by AL-TULAITILI Poem Text First Line: Slender her flank Last Line: Of a learned judge. Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs THE ANT, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant Last Line: Thinking to save all, we cast all away. Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs THE ANT-HEAP, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High in the woodland, on the mountain-side Last Line: The pity they deny. Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs THE ANT-LION, by THOMAS MILLER (1807-1874) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By digging a hole in the sand Last Line: And both of us live by slaughter and strife. Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Wasps; Bugs; Yellow Jackets THE GROATSWORTH OF WIT: A CONCEITED FABLE OF THE OLD COMEDIAN AESOP, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ant and a grasshopper, walking together on a Last Line: Without remedy. Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c); Ants; Fables; Grasshoppers; Insects; Allegories; Bugs THE SUPRFEME MOMENT, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As an ant is powerless Subject(s): Ants; Death; Dead, The THIS MORNING, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter without knocking, hard-working ant. Subject(s): Ants; Longing WATCHING ANTS, by YANG WAN-LI Poem Source First Line: When one of them chances to meet another Last Line: Their wagon train is filled Subject(s): Ants; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Insects WINTER POEM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The quivering wings of the winter ant Last Line: To breathe, to sense another, and to wait Subject(s): Winter; Ants; Relationships |
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