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| Searching... Subject: BEARS Matches Found: 71 A BEAR FAMILY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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'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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bears; Mortality THE HEAVY BEAR WHO GOIES WITH ME, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bears; Mortality THE POLAR BEAR, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text 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's Biography First Line: The polar bear by being white Subject(s): Animals; Bears THE TURNING, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text 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'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 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 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 |
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