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| Searching... Subject: APES Matches Found: 31 A CARELESS APE, by RON PADGETT Poem Text 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'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'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'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 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'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'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 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'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 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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: If we meet a gorilla Last Line: Where you came from Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Etiquette |
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