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| Searching... Subject: CIRCUS Matches Found: 50 ACROBAT, by VLADISLAV FELITZIANOVICH KHODASEVICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Inscription for a silhouette Last Line: Poet, skirt the folk who laughed: %is not your living just such craft? Subject(s): Acrobats And Acrobatism; Circus AFTER THE CIRCUS, by RAYMOND HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: I can remember how the memory Last Line: The coming to one's self is what is meant. Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond Peckham Subject(s): Circus; Memory AT THE CIRCUS, by GEORGE SZIRTES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No need to ask what the black horse is Last Line: The lollipops are cold, voluptuous Subject(s): Circus BAIN'S CATS AND RATS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet, and almost bashful, and seldom looking Last Line: And then he'd glance, half-scared, into the wings Subject(s): Circus; Death; Dead, The BIG TENT UNDER THE ROOF, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Noises new to sea and land Last Line: I'd rather shake hands with mr. Ringling %and tell him his circus is a beautiful thing Subject(s): Circus BILLY MILLER'S CIRCUS-SHOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At billy miller's circus-show Last Line: An' dances an' says funny things! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Circus BILLY'S ALPHABETICAL ANIMAL SHOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A was an elegant ape Last Line: Right at the end of your visit? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Circus BOARDMAN AND COFFIN, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I told him straight, if he touched me, just once more Last Line: And a wind rushed after them. And that was all Subject(s): Circus; Murder; Suicide CIRCUS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We will have to go away, said the girls in the circus Last Line: The soft wind of summer blew in the light green trees Subject(s): Circus CIRCUS, by VINE MCCASLAND Poem Text First Line: Her scant skirt spreads above her knees Last Line: Upward at marie, queen of the air. Subject(s): Circus CIRCUS, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Friday came and the circus was there Last Line: But I didn't see him eat Subject(s): Circus CIRCUS, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Reaching along to the distance, monotonous blocks on blocks Subject(s): Circus CIRCUS, by JAROSLAV SEIFERT Poem Source First Line: Today it was the first time Last Line: Balloon: 'today for the last time' Subject(s): Circus CIRCUS (II), by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember when I wrote the circus Last Line: And I wonder if any good will come of either of them %all the same Subject(s): Circus; Poetry And Poets CIRCUS AT NIGHT, by MADELEINE AARON Poem Text First Line: The weathered tent on this star-gilded night Last Line: And singing crickets claim the field again. Subject(s): Circus; Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CIRCUS GARLAND, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the day when the circus comes Last Line: And a pygmy pony-shoe Subject(s): Circus CIRCUS LADY, by CELIA DROPKIN Poem Source First Line: I am a circus lady Last Line: I want to fall on you Subject(s): Circus; Women CIRCUS PARADE, by OLIVE BEAUPRE MILLER Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow, tomorrow's the circus parade! Last Line: And the wheezing, old calliope is %the very tail end of the show! Subject(s): Calliopes (musical Instruments); Circus; Parades CIRCUS PARADE, by KATHARINE PYLE Poem Source First Line: One day we took our lunches Subject(s): Circus; Parades CIRCUS PARADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Circus; Parades CIRCUS PARADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The circus! - the circus! - the Last Line: The clash and the clang of the cymbals %that beat, %as the glittering pageant winds down %the long s Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Circus; Parades DENOUEMENT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The telegram says you have gone away Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Circus; Loss ELEPHANT, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: I said it was an elephant's turd, but fay, six, didn't believe me. She Last Line: Happier than he already was Subject(s): Animal Rights; Circus; Elephants; Freedom; Happiness ELEPHANT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: A prehistoric boulder Last Line: Walks in the circus parade. Subject(s): Animals; Circus; Elephants END OF THE WORLD, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Quite unexpectedly as vasserot Last Line: There in the sudden blackness the black pall %of nothing, nothing, nothing-nothing at all Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Circus; Judgment Day MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.' Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C NEW CIRCUS, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The new circus has come to town Last Line: And the immutable stars Subject(s): Audiences; Circus; Tourists SIDESHOW, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Once I saw a woman as big as the world Last Line: When the fat woman's tears fell, %they looked as heavy as pears, and as succulent Subject(s): Circus; Obesity; Pregnancy SOWRD-SWALLOWER PINES FOR HIS EX-WIFE, THE FIRE-EATER, by MICHAEL HUDSON Poem Source First Line: Our pinhead drools appreciation for the yokel's Last Line: For her lingering kerosene & chrome aftertaste Subject(s): Circus; Marriage TAR AND FEATHERS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The circus swooped down Last Line: Has a 'down' on himself and on circuses. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Circus TENT CIRCUS, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: The cop clown is out back sitting on a hitch, nursing his sciatica while Last Line: The final orphans Subject(s): Animals; Circus; Clowns; Elephants; Entertainers THE CIRCUS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In my purse there was gold Last Line: But grace went to the circus. Subject(s): Circus; Money; Spendthrifts; Women THE CIRCUS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The circus tent was crowded Last Line: Where they had stood before! Subject(s): Children; Circus; Smiles; Childhood THE CIRCUS (I), by KENNETH KOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We will have to go away, said the girls in the circus Subject(s): Circus THE CIRCUS (II), by KENNETH KOCH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I remember when I wrote the circus Subject(s): Circus; Poetry & Poets THE CIRCUS RINGMASTER'S APOLOGY TO GOD, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is what we both knew in the sunlight of a restaurant's garden Last Line: Remember? You were glad that I did it once before! Subject(s): Circus; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Story-telling; Male-female Relations THE CIRCUS-DAY PARADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The circus-day parade! How the bugles played and played! Last Line: Filled all the hungry hearts of us with melody sublime! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Circus; Parades THE END OF THE WORLD, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quite unexpectedly as vasserot Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Circus; Judgment Day; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE MENAGERIE, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god my brain is not inclined to cut Last Line: There may be hidden meaning in his grin. Subject(s): Animals; Circus; Zoos THE MINIMUM CIRCUS, by HENRI COLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the marks on their coats Last Line: This is what life is supposed to be Subject(s): Circus THE RIVALS; OR THE SHOWMAN'S RUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Straight rent across one trousers-knee, makes his inglorious -- exit.] Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Circus; Comedy; Plays & Playwrights; Quarrels; Tragedy; Arguments; Disagreements THE SOVIET CIRCUS VISITS HAVANA, 1969, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They pitched tents on the grounds of lenin's park Last Line: Of those russian elephants, the lost rumbling of a man, his son Subject(s): Circus; Cuba; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians THE VENUS HOTTENTOT, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Science, science, science! Last Line: Geometric, deformed, unnatural Subject(s): Circus; Women - African THE WRECK OF THE CIRCUS TRAIN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Couplings buckled, cracked, collapsed Last Line: Turned and swung off toward the hills Subject(s): Circus; Disasters; Railroad Wrecks; Train Wrecks TRAVELING EXHIBITION, by JANE BLUE Poem Source First Line: The photographs of mary ann marks Last Line: Buttoning each other's dresses %combing out their thick hair Subject(s): Circus; Travel TUESDAY IN MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, by MICHAEL G. HICKEY Poem Source First Line: You are on stage Last Line: It will carry you this reward for an eternity %to heights even the trapeze artists can't touch Subject(s): Circus USUAL CIRCUSLING, GARBAGE, AND THE NEW GHOST DANCE, by BRUCE RICE Poem Source First Line: In nancy's back yard grasshoppers jumping like birds Last Line: Fall down Subject(s): Children; Circus; Clowns WASHING THE ELEPHANT, by BARBARA RAS Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Circus; Confession; Religion; Family Life; Elephants; Theology; Relatives WHAT WE NEED, by JO GAROT MCDOUGALL Poem Source First Line: It is just as well we do not see Last Line: The white and trembling doves, the pair Subject(s): Circus WHEN I WENT TO THE CIRCUS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I went to the circus that had pitched on the waste lot Last Line: In the bright wild circus flesh Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Circus |
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