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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CANNIBALS Matches Found: 11 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DIRGE CONCERNING THE LATE ... KING OF THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS, by WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CROFFUT Poem Text First Line: And so our royal relative is dead? Last Line: To write of one who loved his fellow men! Alternate Author Name(s): Croffut, W. A. Subject(s): Cannibals; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fame; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Reputation A FROG'S THANKSGIVING, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a frog with a shanty built over each eye Last Line: Well, maybe I am; I'm a frog just the same. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Cannibals; Frogs; Holidays; Thanksgiving A POE-'EM OF PASSION, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was many and many a year ago Last Line: In her solemn sepulcher, me. Variant Title(s): Cannibalee Subject(s): Cannibals; Graves; Love; Passion; Tombs; Tombstones CANNIBAL, by LEON LALEAU Poem Source First Line: This savage wish on certain days Subject(s): Cannibals; Negritude (literary Movement) ESSAY: OF CANNIBALS, OF THUMBS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What revolves in the thinking disk? What reflects of the eye is due Last Line: Burning to cover joy's shadow of joy beneath the thumb. Subject(s): Cannibals; Desire; Essays; Happiness; Joy; Delight HANSEL AND GRETEL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little plum, said the mother to her son Last Line: And I would be a cannibal Subject(s): Cannibalism & Cannibals; Theology IMPROMPTU, by SAMUEL WILBERFORCE Poem Text First Line: If I were a cassowary Last Line: Cassock, bands and hymn-book too. Subject(s): Birds; Cannibals IN A CLEARING HACKED OUT OF THE RAIN FOREST, SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well, it's god's best recipe Last Line: When we live only for our appetites, %like cronus, daddy guppies, cats, %it's our own children we de Subject(s): Cannibals KUNAWARAKU'S SONG ABOUT MAN-EATING STRANGERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Weep and wail, %for this is the giant canoe Last Line: This is the pananakiri's big canoe Subject(s): Cannibals; Canoes And Canoeing THE CONSTANT CANNIBAL MAIDEN, by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far, oh, far is the mango island Last Line: A-waitin' for me -- with a knife and fork. Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): Cannibals; Women THE CONVERTED CANNIBALS, by G. E. FARROW Poem Text First Line: Upon an island, all alone Last Line: However ornamental. Subject(s): Cannibals; Islands; Pacific Ocean; Sin |
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