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Subject: DARWIN, CHARLES (1809-1882)
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First Line: "oh, many have told of the monkeys of old"
Subject(s): "darwin, Charles (1809-1882);monkeys;


A PRE-ADAMITE ON EVOLUTION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: An aged king of gorillas sat
Last Line: Nor dreamed that her kind could be free.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Nature; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans


A SHELF IS A LEDGE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't understand by what perversity
Last Line: As he screams in the dark: survive! Survive!
Subject(s): Books; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Inanimate Objects; Survival; Reading


AUTOCHTHON, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a rude country some four thousand miles
Last Line: O leader in a commonwealth of thought!
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Judgments; Life; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron


COCK, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A month before his dinner with the visiting spanish lawyer,
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Religion; Fathers & Sons; Lesbians; Theology


DARWIN, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was an ape in the days that were earlier
Last Line: Then he was a man and a positivist.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution


DARWIN, by JON EDWARD DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A victim of thought
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)


DARWIN CROSSES THE ANDES, by A. V. CHRISTIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: All day we followed the madrina up into the mountains
Last Line: My companions sleep through as sparks from the dry wood lift, torrents %of brilliant lepidoptera in
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)


DARWIN IN 1881, by GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleepless as prospero back in his bedroom
Last Line: He lies down in his boots and overcoat, %and shuts his eyes
Alternate Author Name(s): Schnackenberg, Gertrude
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


DARWIN IN APPALACHIA, by VINCENT HAMILTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cattle carry their birds out from under
Last Line: The willow tree. It's true, look at their legs
Subject(s): Appalachia; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)


DARWIN ON SPECIES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hear how selection was the efficient cause
Last Line: "lapsed into whales, and grandly swam away"
Subject(s): "darwin, Charles (1809-1882);mnemonics;


DARWIN'S DEATHBED, by W. J. KEITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Darwin %on his o-so-victorian deathbed
Last Line: Wielding the club himself
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)


DARWINISM, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When first the unflowering fern-forest
Last Line: End the new travail of the soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution


DARWINISM IN THE KITCHEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I was takin' off my bonnet
Last Line: Have developed from a flea!
Subject(s): "darwin, Charles (1809-1882);


DARWINITY, by HERMAN CHARLES MERIVALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Power to thine elbow, thou newest of sciences
Last Line: Born in the sea with a cold in its head?
Subject(s): Creation; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; War


EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: NATURAL SELECTION, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had found out a gift for my fair
Last Line: I'm certain that darwin is true!
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution


HIMALAYA APE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now listen, evolutionists
Last Line: Or of the missing link.
Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Pets; Science; Teaching & Teachers; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Scientists; Educators; Professors


HOW STEP BY STEP WE HAVE COME TO UNDERSTAND, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the sixteenth century nicholas copernicus
Last Line: And that's hard. That's hard
Subject(s): Change; Copernicus. Nicolaus (1473-1543); Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Earth; Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Science


MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE (DEDICATED TO DARWIN AND HUXLEY), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They told him gently he was made / of nicely tempered mud
Last Line: Came from one common germ
Subject(s): "darwin, Charles (1809-1882);evolution;huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895);


MESSAGE OF ONAN, by MICHAEL+(2) HOGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the galapagos is a sea turtle who falls in love with a rock. Early in
Last Line: As pubescent maidens is the message of onan, ironically named
Subject(s): Animals; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Galapagos Islands; Science


PASSAGE, by MATTHEW JAMES BABCOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I hear that over the last three months
Last Line: Head a purple menagerie of fourteen new finches
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Ecuador; Evolution; Galapagos Islands; Maturity; Teenagers


POLLYWOGS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down in maine at camp wohelo
Last Line: "they'll make monkeys out of man."
Subject(s): Animals; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Nature; Science; Wilderness; Scientists


THE CULTURED GIRL AGAIN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She was so esthetic and culchud
Last Line: "fried, lionized, baked, biled, or mashed?"
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Education; Girls


TO DARWIN, by SAMUEL GREENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: And the space was left open
Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)