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| Searching... Subject: BATS Matches Found: 36 3, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Bats swallow my shadow Last Line: My hand on the horizon %of its tail the scaly sieve Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Fights; Mist; Mountains; Sea AN INCONVENIENCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To his cousin the bat Last Line: "but nothing to sit on have I." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Rats AS IN A SUCCESSION OF RUSSIAN DOLLS, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A furry lump like the back of a brown creeper Last Line: Inside another, the husk of things to come Subject(s): Animals; Bats BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At evening, sitting on this terrace Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At evening, sitting on this terrace Last Line: In china the bat is symbol of happiness. %not for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Florence, Italy; Travel BAT, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His awful skin Subject(s): Bats; Theology BAT OUT OF HELL, by MAX GOODLEY Poem Text First Line: The children scream and rush inside the house Last Line: Her swollen breasts with wings veiled womanly. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Fear BAT-WINGS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flitter, flitter, through the twilight Last Line: Pipistrello. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Gnats; Rome, Italy BATS, by ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bats! / gnats Last Line: Syntheses! Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Wings ECHOLOCATION, by DEBORAH A. MIRANDA Poem Source First Line: All day long you flutter through artificial night Last Line: Reverberate against your blood and bone Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Nature ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE BAT, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Bats have not heard a word of their literary reputation Last Line: Will cause its cave to be burned to ashes Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Blood; Caves; Vampires; Wings FACADE: 2. THE BAT, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Castellated, tall, / from battlements fall Last Line: Quacks, clacks, afraid. Subject(s): Animals; Bats GOLDEN WASP, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blindworm that legless lizard flows along the porch step Last Line: The dark bat has left my face and is scissoring around in summer's bright space Subject(s): Insects; Bats HIGH PITCHES, by ROBERT GRUNST Poem Source First Line: A little brown bat was waiting for dark Last Line: And every flying insect that it loved Subject(s): Animals; Bats MADNESS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wardrobe towers above the table lamp Last Line: Who rearranges with impartial feet %the silence in the caverns of a skull Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Variant Title(s): Longitud Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Old Age; Rooms MAN AND BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I went into my room, at mid-morning Last Line: But I am greater that he - %I escaped him Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Bats METAMORPHOSIS, by CECIL J. MULLINS Poem Source First Line: These bats remind me of a child I knew Last Line: The storm stopped as thy picked tom from the ice. %and bats,I've learned since then, are also nice Subject(s): Animals; Bats MIND, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mind in its purest play is like some bat Subject(s): Animals; Bats MIND, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mind in its purest play is like some bat Last Line: A graceful error may correct the cave Subject(s): Animals; Bats OLD GRANNY DUSK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old granny dusk, when the sun Last Line: Er kisses the face you're a-bendin' down. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Dusk; Katydids SEVEN MEXICAN CHILDREN, by TOM SCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: I saw them at games every day Subject(s): Animals; Bats SLEEPING IN THE LIGHT, by MARK GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: Summer nights in the street under the arc light Last Line: Milk-toast or drink whiskey anymore Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Light; Night SONNET, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve Last Line: Dimming her lonely visions of despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Despair SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE ALLIGATOR GRILL, by INGRID PROESCHER Poem Source First Line: This afternoon we watched the black flock Last Line: Hanging on by the tips of their toes Subject(s): Animals; Bats THE BAT, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the river of sorrow Last Line: As daylight is darkness to thee. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Night; Bedtime THE BAT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: His eccentricities. Subject(s): Animals; Bats THE BAT, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! Last Line: Like a tea-tray in the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Variant Title(s): The Mad Hatter's Song Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Taylor, Jane (1783-1824) THE BAT, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was reading about rationalism Last Line: By suddenly coming near Subject(s): Bats THE BAT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou dread, uncanny thing Last Line: Grate not thy teeth at me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Bedtime THE BAT, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reading in bed, full of sentiment Subject(s): Bats THE INTRUDER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother - preferring the strange to the tame Last Line: She washed and washed the pity from her hands. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Violence; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism TO A BAT, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: Bat - %I want to praise you for your beauty Last Line: And what you know about the longest night Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Wings TO THE BAT, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From haunt of man, from day's obtrusive glare Last Line: Twilight thy love -- thy guide her beaming star! Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Animals; Bats UNSTRUNG, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a jeweled tapestry Last Line: A face so like its own. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Birds; Bones; Death; Dead, The ZOO BATS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the central park zoo, just past the ants Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Zoos ZOO BATS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the central park zoo, just past the ants Last Line: To the night like a cup of water to the sea Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Zoos |
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