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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BEAR FAMILY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wunzt, 'way west in illinoise
Last Line: Ferever an' ferever!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Family Life; Mountains; Relatives; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


A GRIZZLY IN THE ZOO, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A shame to your kin, you good-natured bear
Last Line: Of the mighty paw that was meant to slay.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Wilderness; Zoos


A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE, by OLIVER MARBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a man who put on airs
Last Line: Because they were too ladified.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Dolls; Friends, Religious Society Of; Men; Prayer; Toys; Quakers


ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 9, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the tongue as red as scarlet
Last Line: "sprang from moses mendelssohn!"
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Mendelssohn, Moses (1729-1786)


BACK TO MAKE THE BEARS SICK, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw a big trashy
Last Line: Bony children back %to make the bears sick
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Family Life; Rudeness


BATTLESHIPS, by LORI PETRI    Poem Text                    
First Line: They rock and ride like great grey gulls
Last Line: The black lusts of the primal slime.
Subject(s): Animals; Battleships; Bears; Navy - United States; American Navy


BEAR, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bear puts both arms round the tree above her
Last Line: A baggy figure, equally pathetic %when sedentary and when peripatetic
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


BEAR, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bear died standing up
Last Line: To give up again this human shape.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Death; Dead, The


BEAR, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the huge, wide-open, sleeping eye of the mountain
Last Line: His price is everything
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


BEAR, by VLADIMIR LUGOVSKOI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The little girl's new present was a bear
Last Line: Knocking. For, with no midnight fairy-tales, %there'd be no life for men or beasts at all
Alternate Author Name(s): Lugovskoy, Vladimir
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


BEAR HUNT, by MARGARET WIDDEMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I played I was two polar bears
Last Line: But it was teatime, anyway!
Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


BEAR ON THE DELHI ROAD, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unreal, tall as a myth %by the road the himalayan bear
Last Line: To lurch, lurch with them %in the tranced dancing of men
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


BEAR PIT; AT THE ZOLLOGICAL GARDENS, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We liked the bear's serio-comical face
Last Line: Yet if you pursue it you'll certainly catch it
Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


BEAR'S BLOOD, by ILEANA MALANCIOIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: To heal you hieronymus I had brought you
Last Line: Your shattered bones gathered hastily in one spot %the bear's blood unable to heal them
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


BEARS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wonderful bears that walked my room all night
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Night; Bedtime


BEARS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wonderful bears that walked my room all night
Last Line: My bears, who keeps you now, in pride and fear?
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Night


BLACK BEAR, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the summer, fall and spring
Last Line: And there he snores - and snores - and snores
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


BROTHER BRUIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A dancing bear grotesque and funny
Last Line: The hard old man may have repented.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


BROWN BEAR, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the wild bees that hive in the rocks
Last Line: Old honey-paw sleeps in the wood
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE BEAR, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Water-green is the flowing pollard
Last Line: Down.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


CHANT TO A WERE-BEAR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "were-bear, why are you not in hell?"
Subject(s): Animals;bears;mythology - Native American;native Americans;superstition; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


DESTINATIONS, by DOROTHEA TANNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday I saw some bears at the top of a waterfall
Subject(s): Bears; Salmon


EGGSTRAX FROM THE MALOJA GAZETTE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is our painful duty to denounce to a repugnant public, a most fearful
Last Line: Qed as a mucilaginous but merited motto, worked in periwinkle %shells
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Disasters; Fear; News; Travel


ELIZABETH'S WAR WITH THE CHRISTMAS BEAR: 1601, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The bears are kept by hundreds within fences, are fed cracked / eggs
Last Line: Every inch of you, a terrible vision, not bear, but virgin!
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Bones; Christmas; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Nativity, The


FABLES: 2ND SER. 5. THE BEAR IN A BOAT, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That man must daily wiser grow
Last Line: Derision shouts along the strand.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Boats


FOR A GRIZZLY BEAR SLEEPING, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He has turned himself and let himself lie down
Last Line: As he has always been, awake or sleeping
Subject(s): Bears


FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE, by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's not your mountain
Subject(s): Absence; Bears; Separation; Isolation


GIANT BEAR, by NALUNGIAQ    Poem Source                    
First Line: There once was a giant bear
Last Line: Monster one minute, food the next
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Eskimos; Native Americans; Religion


GLAZUNOVIANA, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The man with the red hat
Subject(s): Bears


GRIZZLY, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coward, - of heroic size
Last Line: Yet remain an outlaw still!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


GRIZZLY BEAR, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


GRIZZLY BEAR, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear
Last Line: To stop a grizzly bear %you will never meet another grizzly bear
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


HOW ATTENTIVE THE BIG BEAR RESTING HIS CHIN, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To see if he has permission for sunflower seeds
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Nature


I FEEL, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In her footprints
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Footprints; Nature


IAMBIC FEET CONSIDERED AS HONORABLE SCARS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You see these little scars? That's where my wife
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Bears; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


IN LOVE WITH THE BEARS, by GREG KUZMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: To see them coming headstrong
Last Line: Sometimes afraid to meet me with their eyes
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


INVOCATION OF THE GREAT BEAR, by INGEBORG BACHMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Great bear, come down, shaggy night
Last Line: Hurled down from paradise
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


MARCH, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bear under the snow
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Bears


MENTAL PATIENT MAULED BY POLAR BEAR IN VILAS PARK ZOO, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Father stood in the doorway
Last Line: And I taste iron in my mouth %and my feet grow wings
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Fathers; Insanity


MESSAGES FROM A ZUNI FETISH, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: An alabaster bear
Last Line: To the heart of the continent
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Hunting


MY FIRST PIECE OF BEAR, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the fall of '95, / while the boys were on the drive
Last Line: And not struggle with your first piece of bear.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Hunger; Hunting; Hunters


MY FRIEND THE BEAR, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down in the bone myth of the cellar
Last Line: Her breathing like god's.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Friendship


NORTH AMERICAN BEAR, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR.    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Early november in the soul
Last Line: And like him, too, with something red and inviolate %under my feet
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


POLAR BEAR, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The polar bear by being white
Last Line: To set out after polar bears
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


POLAR BEAR, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The polar bear never makes his bed
Subject(s): Bears


PRISONER, by JOSEPH O'CONNOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: In a cage of iron and stone
Last Line: To pelt with stones.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Prisons & Prisoners; Zoos


SCOUTING HIGH SIERRA, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slowly walking migration
Last Line: Boy for over 30 years %don't come close
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Nature; Walking


SEEN FROM THE PORCH, A BEAR BY THE HOUSE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A mail of mud
Last Line: So instead I yell hey
Subject(s): Bears; Fear


SELF-PORTRAIT AS A BEAR, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is a fat animal, a bear
Subject(s): Bears


SHAKESPEREAN BEAR, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, on our casual way
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Winter


SMOKEY THE BEAR SUTRA, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in the jurassic about 150 million years ago
Subject(s): Buddhism; Pollution; Environment; Bears; United States; Buddha; Buddhists; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; America


THE BEAR, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bear puts both arms round the tree above her
Last Line: When sedentary and when peripatetic
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


THE BEAR, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In late winter
Last Line: Was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived?
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Blood; Life


THE BEAR AND THE MAN, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose there were a bear and a man. The bear
Last Line: Coming from far up there, near the north pole.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge


THE BEAR ON THE DELHI ROAD, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unreal, tall as a myth / by the road the himalayan bear
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


THE BEAR STORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: W'y, wunst they wuz a little boy
Last Line: -- an' that's all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Variant Title(s): Boy's Bear Story
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Boys; Forests; Woods


THE BLACK BEAR, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the summer, fall and spring
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


THE BOOKWORM, by CHARLES WILLIAM PEARSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: To heroes who on battlefields win fame
Last Line: To be that busy idler — a book-worm.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Lions; Nature


THE DANCING BEAR, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far over elf-land poets stretch their sway
Last Line: Atlantic welter reached it from his grave.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


THE DANCING BEAR; RECOMMENDED TO THE ADVOCATES OF THE SLAVE TRADE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rare music! I would rather hear cat-courtship
Last Line: Hath baffled justice and humanity!
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Slavery; Serfs


THE HEAVY BEAR WHO GOES WITH ME, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Bears; Mortality


THE POLAR BEAR, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The polar bear is unaware
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Bears


THE POLAR BEAR, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The polar bear by being white
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


THE TURNING, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bear loped before me
Subject(s): Bears


THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF WARE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He's a moppsikon floppsikon bear!
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Nonsense


TOM DANCERS GIFT OF A WHITEBARK PINE CONE, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: You never know what opportunity is going to travel to you, or through you.
Subject(s): Exrement; Bears; Pine Trees


UP-STREAM, by KATHERINE KELLEY TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little brown bear
Last Line: Little brown bear lay down to die.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears


WHERE THE GRIZZLY DWELLS, by JAMES FOX (20TH CENTURY)    Poem Text                    
First Line: I admire the artificial art of the east
Last Line: The indian land,— land of the golden west.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Cowboys; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Rocky Mountain Range; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


WILD, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In late august when the streams dry up
Last Line: The point where you feel road rage or checkout line rage or now-you've-made-a-mess rage? Aauurgh!
Subject(s): Bears


WOMAN WHO MARRIED THE BEAR, by NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were two women, sisters
Last Line: Now that is the end
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Family Life; Hunting; Murder; Native Americans