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Subject: APES
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A CARELESS APE, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The real reason I'm not you
Last Line: Drawn aside like music to show the notes glittering quietly below
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans


A PRE-ADAMITE ON EVOLUTION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: An aged king of gorillas sat
Last Line: Nor dreamed that her kind could be free.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Nature; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans


AFTER SUNDAY WE UNCLES SNOOZE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Banana-stuffed, the ape behind the brain
Last Line: What shall the sleeps of heaven dream but time?
Subject(s): Apes; Uncles; Food ^ Eating; Sleep


APE, by ROLAND YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sacred ape, now, children, see
Subject(s): Animals; Apes


ARTIST AND THE APES, by EDWARD BOCCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When apes believed in the scriptures
Last Line: And nobody believes in anything
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Paintings And Painters


DAYS INN, by M. B. MCLATCHEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything about it says economy
Last Line: To choruses like this. Love wants a jungle shower
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Animals; Apes; Motion Pictures


ELEGY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gnu up at the zoo
Last Line: Not close their eyes by night or day - %no, not even in death
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Death - Animals; Gnus; Zoos


EXPLOSION AT THE CLUB, by RUSSELL EDSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ape is accepted, and sits quietly smoking a cigar and reading a
Last Line: Something fummy about him
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Mammals


FAMILY MONKEY, by RUSSELL EDSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We bought an electric monkey, experimenting rather recklessly with
Last Line: We had electrocuted the family monkey
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Monkeys


HIMALAYA APE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now listen, evolutionists
Last Line: Or of the missing link.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Pets; Science; Teaching & Teachers; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Scientists; Educators; Professors


HIMMY'S OUTING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Himmy went to market
Last Line: For his breakfast food.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Escapes; Forests; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Fugitives; Woods


HOMO SAPIENS, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine a morning moon the color of cream
Last Line: A residue still too ancient to name
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Creation; Evolution; Skulls; Wilderness


JEAN HARLOW, by GORDON HICKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the window king kong is staring at his bed. It is a boig bed, king
Last Line: King kong takes a small step toward the bed
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Beauty; King Kong; Poetry And Poets


MONKEY'S CHILDREN, by SIV CEDERING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here is a story for you
Last Line: And caught my love in the air
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Monkeys


MOTHERHOOD, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sat on a shelf
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Mothers; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans


MOTHERHOOD, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sat on a shelf
Last Line: Clean, soft and shining %on her chest
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Mothers


OLD MAN AND THE APE, by EDWARD BOCCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ape paints like he's never
Last Line: Don't you ever go to the museum
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Paintings And Painters


ORANGUTAN REHAB, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A circle of unbarbered redheads round
Last Line: Limb toward a cultivated taste for freedom.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Freedom; Indonesia; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Liberty; Dutch East Indies


SPEAKING TOURS, by GORDON HICKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kong, at his kitchen table, peers around himself and sees linoleum
Last Line: King kong wants to go back home. Wants it all to go away
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Jungles; King Kong


TEACHING THE APE TO WRITE POEMS, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They didn't have much trouble
Subject(s): Apes; Poetry & Poets; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans


TEACHING THE APE TO WRITE POEMS, by JAMES TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They didn't have much trouble
Last Line: You look like a god sitting there. %why don't you try writing something?'
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Poetry And Poets


THE APE AND THE FOX, ON THE FRUITS OF GREEDINESS AND CREDULITY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old esop so famous was certainly right
Last Line: That your majesty's grace did not understand trap.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Cruelty; Fables; Men; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Allegories


THE ESCAPED GORILLA, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When he walked out in the park that early evening
Subject(s): Apes; Escapes; Zoos; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Fugitives


THE HEADLINER AND THE BREADWINNER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moko, the educated ape is here
Last Line: "moko's, the blest, the educated ape."
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Monkeys; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans


THE MAN FORBID, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mankind has cast me out. When I became
Last Line: The cliffed escarpment ends in stormclad strength.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Apes; Books; Death; Education; Exiles; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Estrangement; Outcasts; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Reading; Dead, The; Human Race


THE TWO APES OF BRUEGHEL, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's my dream of a final exam
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans


THE YOUNG LION AND THE APE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis true I blame your lover's choice
Last Line: And pays with interest scorn for scorn.'
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Beauty; Charm; Fables; Lions; Women; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Allegories


TO A CHIMPANZEE IN THE LONDON ZOO, by DURS GRUNBEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Were they like these, the eyes in which the fever first
Last Line: Evil vanity, swallowed withone's features fixed
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Zoos


TWO APES OF BRUEGHEL, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's my dream of a final exam
Last Line: She prompts me %with a soft clanging of the chain
Subject(s): Animals; Apes


WE MUST BE POLITE: 1, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If we meet a gorilla
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Etiquette; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Manners; Courtesy


WE MUST BE POLITE: 1, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If we meet a gorilla
Last Line: Where you came from
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Etiquette