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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FAIRY TALES Matches Found: 161 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FAIRY TALE, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in days of yore a little princess, who had summers seen Last Line: Then she laid her down, and, praying, slept the long unmorrowing sleep. Subject(s): Books; Fairy Tales; Story-telling; Reading A FAIRY TALE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curled in a maze of dolls and bricks Last Line: I read the tale with mary. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Fairy Tales A HOME-MADE FAIRY TALE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bud, come here to your uncle a spell Last Line: A kiss like the drip of a drop of dew! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Fantasy; Gardens & Gardening; Guitars A SLEEPING BEAUTY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An alien wind that blew and blew Last Line: As he turned to go -- yet, pausing, gazed? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Insects; Nature; Wind; Bugs AFTER ALL AND AFTER ALL, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dreaming of a prince Last Line: Like to those that happened once long and long ago! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Fairy Tales AN EMBROIDERY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose red's hair is brown as fur Subject(s): Fairy Tales AN IMPROMPUT FAIRY-TALE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wunst upon a time wunst Last Line: "guess I'll marry you!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fairy Tales; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AND WHEN THE PRINCE CAME, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: May the castle lie in slumber Subject(s): Fairy Tales ANTISTROPHE, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY Poem Source First Line: Dishonest men, are always the rage Subject(s): Fairy Tales ARCHAEOLOGY OF A MARRIAGE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sleeping beauty wakes up Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Fairy Tales BEAUTY, SLEEPING, by ARTHUR FREEMAN Poem Source First Line: My mistress's inmost heart Subject(s): Fairy Tales BECOMING A FROG, by PAUL R. JONES Poem Source First Line: No one is home today doing usual chores Subject(s): Fairy Tales BENEFACTORS, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do not delude yourself that they are kind Subject(s): Fairy Tales BLACK DEATH, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He gave her neither rest nor peace Last Line: "the grave knows neither low nor high!" Subject(s): Class Struggle; Death; Fairy Tales; Love; Dead, The BREASTS, by BARBARA UNGER Poem Source First Line: Sisters %snow white and red rose Subject(s): Fairy Tales CHICKEN LITTLE, by WILLIAM FREEDMAN Poem Source First Line: So there I was Last Line: I would break their string of lonely nights. %I would be their fish Subject(s): Chickens; Fairy Tales CINDERELLA, by FEROZ AHMED-UD-DIN Poem Source First Line: This vegetable body drops Subject(s): Fairy Tales CINDERELLA, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apart from my sisters, estranged Last Line: For her joyful heart. Subject(s): Cinderella; Fairy Tales; Mythology - Classical; Oppression; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974); Solitude; Women's Rights; Loneliness; Feminism CINDERELLA, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her imaginary playmate was a grown-up Subject(s): Fairy Tales CINDERELLA, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her imaginary playmate was a grown-up Last Line: But come, come in till then! Com in till then! Subject(s): Fairy Tales CINDERELLA, by ROGER MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: When they found her prostrate in the garden Subject(s): Fairy Tales CINDERELLA, by CYNTHIA PICKARD Poem Source First Line: It was too dark in the chimney corner to see Subject(s): Fairy Tales CINDERELLA, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prince leans to the girl in scarlet heels Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fairy Tales CINDERELLA, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prince leans to the girl in scarlet heels Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fairy Tales CINDERELLA GRASS, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: Overnight the new green grass Subject(s): Fairy Tales CINDERELLA LIBERATED, by ANNE HUSSEY Poem Source First Line: I sleep with Subject(s): Fairy Tales CINDERELLA'S SONG, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, little cat beside my stool Last Line: Oh, little cat beside my stool Subject(s): Cinderella; Fairy Tales COACH, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a yellow pumpkin Subject(s): Cinderella; Fairy Tales COACH INTO PUMPKIN, by DOROTHY E. REID Poem Source First Line: They never knew or never cared to know Subject(s): Fairy Tales COUP DE GRACE, by ANTHONY D. HOPE Poem Text First Line: Just at that moment the wolf Last Line: O, what a round of applause! Subject(s): Fairy Tales DOLLS PLAY AT HANSEL AND GRETEL, by WILLIAM DICKEY Poem Source First Line: They hunch their heads against the fable of the night Subject(s): Fairy Tales DORNOSCHEN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fairy Tales DOROTHY, by MELISSA MORPHEW Poem Source First Line: Wrist deep in biscuit dough, a dusting of flour Last Line: Some hand-me-down clothes, a pasture %full of bitterweed and daisies Subject(s): Dreams; Fairy Tales; Hurricanes; Kansas DREAMBOOKS, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cold night held the clandestine Last Line: Another day's prose to get through Subject(s): Fairy Tales DREAMTIME, by CATHERINE MAIR Poem Source First Line: Alice is tiny Last Line: She isn't barking up a gumtree %alice is growing Subject(s): Dreams; Fairy Tales DWARF, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source First Line: She went away from us upon a snow-white Subject(s): Fairy Tales ELLA OF THE CINDERS, by MARY BLAKE FRENCH Poem Source First Line: I am not physically perfect Subject(s): Fairy Tales EMBROIDERY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose red's hair is brown as fur Subject(s): Fairy Tales END OF THE STORY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After dressing up out of a dress-up basket Last Line: And wake up later in a different story Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Night EPITHALAMIUM, by JOHN DITSKY Poem Source First Line: First a princess Subject(s): Fairy Tales FAIRY TALE, by MAREK BATEROWICZ Poem Source First Line: Beyond the seven gates Last Line: Bubble volcanos Subject(s): Deafness; Fairy Tales; Silence FAIRY TALE, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Here, no one can answer our questions Last Line: Where no one has a name %or ever, ever dies Subject(s): Fairy Tales FAIRY TALE, by PHYLLIS HOGE THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Prince, when I found you downwind Subject(s): Fairy Tales FAIRY TALE, by VITOMIL ZUPAN Poem Source First Line: I saw a very strange fairy tale Subject(s): Fairy Tales FAIRY TALES, by JANE FLANDERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bound by unnatural sleep Subject(s): Fairy Tales FAIRYTALE, by VOLKER VON TORNE Poem Source First Line: Jorinde, comes in the snailhouse Last Line: Around us, construct god's portrait %with wire and armored plates Subject(s): Fairy Tales FOR THE DEDICATION OF A TOY THEATRE, by BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS LOW Poem Text First Line: You banished fairies and lean outlawed elves Last Line: Have up the curtain; let the play begin! Subject(s): Fairy Tales FROG AND THE GOLDEN BALL, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She let her golden ball fall down the well Last Line: Is magic of love less powerful at your court %than at this green well-head Subject(s): Fairy Tales FROG PRINCE, by ROBERT PACK Poem Source First Line: Imagine the princess's surprise! Subject(s): Fairy Tales FROG PRINCE, by PHOEBE PETTINGELL Poem Source First Line: They say you were made in your father's image Subject(s): Fairy Tales FROG PRINCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frau doktor %mama brundig Last Line: That blind poppy, that innocent globe, %that madonna womb up Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion FROG PRINCE, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a frog Last Line: But I cannot be heavenly, %only disenchanted people %can be heavenly Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE FROG PRINCE, by SUSAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: In march I dreamed of mud Subject(s): Fairy Tales GINGERBREAD HOUSE, by JOHN OWER Poem Source First Line: We made our little girl Last Line: Of the old fairy-tales %we gobble up our child Subject(s): Fairy Tales GOLD FACTORY, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY Poem Source Subject(s): Fairy Tales GRETEL IN DARKNESS, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the world we wanted Subject(s): Fairy Tales GRETEL IN DARKNESS, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the world we wanted Last Line: That black forest and the fire in earnest Subject(s): Fairy Tales GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES, by DAN STRYK Poem Source First Line: They are 'grim' but true Last Line: Day & turn the rat's %slow treadmill once again Subject(s): Fairy Tales HAPPY ENDINGS, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source Subject(s): Fairy Tales IF, MY DARLING, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If my darling were once to decide Last Line: Might knock my darling off her unpriceable pivot Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Man-woman Relationships; Reality; Male-female Relations IN DEAD AIR, UNDER FURIOUS SUN, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY Poem Source Subject(s): Fairy Tales INTERVIEW, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, this is where she lived before she won Subject(s): Fairy Tales JUVENILE COURT, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the over, where the two had shoved her Subject(s): Fairy Tales KINDER-UND HAUSMARCHEN, by DIANE THIEL Poem Source First Line: Saint nikolaus carried a big gunny sack Last Line: Es war einmal im tiefen tiefen wald Subject(s): Fairy Tales KISSING THE TOAD, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere this dusk / a girl puckers her mouth Subject(s): Fairy Tales KISSING THE TOAD, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere this dusk %a girl puckers her mouth Last Line: To make is smile wider %to love on, oh yes, to love on Subject(s): Fairy Tales LIAR RUMPLESTILTSKIN LOVES, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY Poem Source First Line: Folding chairs, a tennis bench Subject(s): Fairy Tales LITTLE JACK HORNER, GROWN OLD, PRAYS FOR ONE MORE PLUM, by CHARLES MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Used to be, lord, I got plenty Last Line: Just one more time, %if he's still a good boy Subject(s): Fairy Tales LITTLE JOHNTS'S CHRIS'MUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We got it up a-purpose, jes' fer little johnts, you know Last Line: "a-cryin' 'cause I watched you all, an' knowed it all the time!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Dreams; Fairy Tales; Nativity, The; Nightmares LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many are the deceivers Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion; Theology LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many are the deceivers Last Line: That little birth, %from their going down %and their lifting up Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND THE WOLF, by ROALD DAHL Poem Source First Line: As soon as wolf began to feel Last Line: My lovely furry wolfskin coat' Subject(s): Fairy Tales LOST CINDERELLA, by EDITH WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Little rich girl, glittering with bells Subject(s): Fairy Tales MARCHEN (GRIMM'S TALES), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listening, listening; it is never still Last Line: But of our own hears, the realm of death -- %neither to rule nor die? To change, to change! Subject(s): Fairy Tales MARRIAGE, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fairy Tales MAYMIE'S STORY OF RED RIDING-HOOD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: W'y, one time wuz a little-weenty dirl Last Line: She's much oblige', an' say to 'call ad'in.' %an' story's honest truth - an' all so, too! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairy Tales MIRROR, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fairy Tales MODERN GRIMM, by DOROTHY LEE RICHARDSON Poem Source Subject(s): Fairy Tales MOUNTAINS BEHIND HER, by SUSAN ELIZABETH HOWE Poem Source First Line: When she appears %there are always mountains behind her Last Line: As for the others, the narrator reports, %they never reach the summit Subject(s): Fairy Tales MYTHICS, by HELEN CHASIN Poem Source First Line: All the cautionary tales of strange girls Last Line: Now, rewarded, I submit to his transfiguration Subject(s): Beauty And The Beast; Cinderella; Fairy Tales; Ondine; Psyche (mythology); Rapunzel; Rumpelstiltskin; Snow White; Women NAME, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One of my names, and I have many others Subject(s): Fairy Tales OCTOBER EGG ALL DAY, by JOANNE LOWERY Poem Source First Line: From what great golden goose Last Line: He smells the beauty in our blood, %fe fi fo fum, black weight Subject(s): Fairy Tales; October ONCE ON A TIME, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time,' was a magical phrase Last Line: Once on a time! Subject(s): Fairy Tales ONE OF THE SEVEN HAS SOMETHING TO SAY, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remember how it was before she came? Subject(s): Fairy Tales PANTOMIME DISEASES, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When the fat prince french-kissed sleeping beauty Subject(s): Fairy Tales PRAISE OF FAMOUS MEN: 4. THE BROTHERS GRIMM, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turn from that to see the witch / hideously bake Last Line: (which it hasn't) ending. Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl (1785-1863); Grimm, Wilhelm Carl (1786-1859) PRELUDE TO A FAIRY TALE, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clear as wistaria branches, waterfalls Last Line: Shouted in all the gutters of the town. Subject(s): Fairy Tales PRINCE CHARMING, by JOHN R. MILLER Poem Source First Line: Let them call me 'froggy,' 'wart-face,' or Subject(s): Fairy Tales PRINCESS, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'll ask for a red rose blossoming in the snow Subject(s): Fairy Tales PRINCESS ADDRESSES THE FROG PRINCE, by ELIZABETH BREWSTER Poem Source First Line: Oh, frog prince, frog prince Subject(s): Fairy Tales PRINCESS IN THE IVORY TOWER, by JOY DAVIDMAN Poem Source First Line: The prince's voice, faint at the edge of sunlight Subject(s): Fairy Tales RAPUNZEL, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh god, let me forget the things he said Subject(s): Fairy Tales RAPUNZEL, by ELI W. MANDEL Poem Source Subject(s): Fairy Tales RAPUNZEL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman / who loves a woman Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion; Theology RAPUNZEL, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman %who loves a woman Last Line: And only as she dreamt of the yellow hair %did moonlight sift into her mouth Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion RAPUNZEL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let down your hair Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Fairy Tales RAPUNZEL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let down your hair Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Fairy Tales RAPUNZEL SONG, by GERARD PREVIN MEYER Poem Source Subject(s): Fairy Tales READING SNOW WHITE TO MY DAUGHTER, by MAUREEN RYAN GRIFFIN Poem Source First Line: Here eyes widen. She actually gasps Last Line: Is choking me. I keep on %reading, feeding her %what she will need Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Mothers And Daughters; Snow White READING THE BROTHERS GRIMM TO JENNY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny, your mind commands Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl (1785-1863); Grimm, Wilhelm Carl (1786-1859) READING THE BROTHERS GRIMM TO JENNY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny, your mind commands Last Line: The terror and the bliss, %the world as it might be? Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl (1785-1863); Grimm, Wilhelm Carl (1786-1859) REBELS FROM FAIRY TALES, by HYACINTHE HILL Poem Source First Line: We are the frogs who will not turn to princes Subject(s): Fairy Tales RED RIDING HOOD, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Most worthy of praise were the virtuous ways Subject(s): Fairy Tales RED RIDING HOOD AT THE ACROPOLIS, by MYRA SKLAREW Poem Source First Line: Kako kako said grandmother Subject(s): Fairy Tales RIPENING, by NOELLE CASKEY Poem Source First Line: Sleeping beauty without her hedge of thorns? Subject(s): Fairy Tales ROSE RED TO SNOW WHITE, by JOAN COLBY Poem Source First Line: A dark wind batters the door Subject(s): Fairy Tales RUMPELSTILTSKIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside many of us Subject(s): Doppelgangers; Fairy Tales; God; Religion; Theology RUMPELSTILTSKIN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside many of us Last Line: One part a barbed hook, %one part papa, %one part doppelganger Subject(s): Doppelgangers; Fairy Tales; God; Religion RUMPLESTILTSKIN'S PLAN, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY Poem Source First Line: So lonely he'd kiss maggots from the mouth Subject(s): Fairy Tales SIR LAUNFAL, by THOMAS CHESTER Poem Text First Line: In the days when arthur bold / rule in english land did hold Last Line: Send us blessings free! Subject(s): Fairy Tales SIR ORFEO, by RICHARD COEUR DE LION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We read full oft, and find it writ Last Line: God grant to us all as well to fare! Alternate Author Name(s): Richard The Lion-hearted; Richard I Of England Subject(s): Fairy Tales SLEEPER, by SARA HENDERSON HAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wish the prince had left me where he found Subject(s): Fairy Tales SLEEPING BEAUTY, by LEONARD COHEN Poem Source First Line: You are brave, I told the sleeping beauty Subject(s): Fairy Tales SLEEPING BEAUTY, by SARA DE FORD Poem Source First Line: In your scarred, peeling crib you lay neglected Subject(s): Fairy Tales SLEEPING BEAUTY, by MARY HUTTON Poem Source First Line: Tell me, is there among you one Subject(s): Fairy Tales SLEEPING BEAUTY, by CHARLES JOHNSON Poem Source Subject(s): Fairy Tales SLEEPING BEAUTY, by EDWARD LESLIE MAYO Poem Source First Line: In a place where hunchbacks and old women Subject(s): Fairy Tales SLEEPING BEAUTY, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They told me this story a long time ago Subject(s): Fairy Tales SLEEPING BEAUTY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sojourning through a southern realm in youth Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Soldiers' Writings SLEEPING BEAUTY, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dark narrow stairway Subject(s): Fairy Tales SLEEPING BEAUTY, by JANE SHORE Poem Source First Line: Green irredescent flies Subject(s): Fairy Tales SLEEPING BEAUTY, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON Poem Source First Line: What dainty world is yours, in which you sleep Subject(s): Fairy Tales SLEEPING BEAUTY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imprisoned in the marble block Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Fairy Tales SLEEPING BEAUTY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imprisoned in the marble block Last Line: She parts the leaves, a pearly smoke, %she cleaves the earth-a silver brook Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Fairy Tales SLEEPING BEAUTY: AUGUST, by DOUGLAS KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: For now the whetting of mind has stopped Subject(s): Fairy Tales SLEEPING BEAUTY: VARIATION OF THE PRINCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the thorns I came to the first page Subject(s): Fairy Tales SNOW WHITE, by ROBERT M. CHUTE Poem Source First Line: You say your fine, flatchested stepmother Subject(s): Fairy Tales SNOW WHITE, by ROBERT GILLESPIE Poem Source First Line: She found herself 7 no less Subject(s): Fairy Tales SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, by ROALD DAHL Poem Source First Line: When little snow white's mother died Subject(s): Fairy Tales SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: No matter what life you lead Subject(s): Fairy Tales SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No matter what life you lead Last Line: And sometimes referring to her mirror %as women do Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion SPIN OR LACE IT IN STORY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a spinster Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations SPIN OR LACE IT IN STORY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a spinster Last Line: Did not want to stop imagining Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Writing And Writers SYR PERCYVELLE OF GALLES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dear lords, listen now to me, / hearken words but two or three" Last Line: "grant to us his dear blessing, / amen, for charitie" Subject(s): Fairy Tales TELLERS OF TALES, by CHESTER SIMON KALLMAN Poem Source First Line: Tales of the folks? Long may their creeds inspire Subject(s): Fairy Tales TENTS, by ANDREW GLAZE Poem Source First Line: The englishman's giant Last Line: From him %in the brother's grimm Subject(s): Fairy Tales THE DAY-DREAM: THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Year after year unto her feet Last Line: A perfect form in perfect rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love THE DAY-DREAM: THE SLEEPING PALACE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The varying year with blade and sheaf Last Line: And bring the fated fairy prince. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Magic Sleep Subject(s): Fairy Tales THE END OF THE STORY, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After dressing up out of a dress-up basket Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Night; Bedtime THE FOX AND THE WOLF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A fox came forth from out the wood Last Line: Nor pardon for all he had done amiss! Subject(s): Fairy Tales THE FROG PRINCE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frau doktor / mama brundig Subject(s): Fairy Tales; God; Religion; Theology THE FROG PRINCE, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am a frog Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love THE MARCHEN (GRIMM'S TALES), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listening, listening; it is never still Subject(s): Fairy Tales THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scent of bramble fills the air Last Line: On winter-haunted trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Fairy Tales THE SLEEPING BEAUTY: VARIATION OF THE PRINCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the thorns I came to the first page Subject(s): Fairy Tales THE SYLPH, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw you and I named a flower Last Line: An evening of amethyst. Subject(s): Beauty; Fairy Tales THE TRULY MARVELOUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Giunts is the biggest mens they air Last Line: Cause wunst he lived in a oyshturecan! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairy Tales THE UNFORGOTTEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er I see, hurrying through worldly ways Last Line: Or men could lose their dearness, being dead. Subject(s): Children; Death; Fairy Tales; Hearts; Past; Childhood; Dead, The THE WRECKAGE ON THE WALL OF EGGS, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cried over humpty-dumpty Last Line: I think of mynas Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Children; Eggs; Racial Equality; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THIS ENCHANTED FOREST: 5. GRETEL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am leaving a trail of poems Subject(s): Fairy Tales THIS ENCHANTED FOREST: 5. GRETEL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am leaving a trail of poems Last Line: All I can try to do %is set it to music Subject(s): Fairy Tales THROUGH SLEEPY-LAND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where do you go when you go Last Line: Through the blind-world 'way in there! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fairy Tales; Fantasy; Sleep; Childhood TO A CHILD, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here, nancy, let me take your hand Subject(s): Fairy Tales TREASURE ISLAND, by KEITH ALTHAUS Poem Source First Line: Beside me %on the couch Last Line: He stirs at its cold scent, %a shiver runs through him, %then me. It's late. %I mark our place Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Imagination TWO GRETELS WERE EXPLORING THE FOREST, by ROBIN MORGAN Poem Source Subject(s): Fairy Tales TWO LINES FROM THE BROTHERS GRIMM; FOR LARRY AND JUDY RAAB, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now we must get up quickly Last Line: Move about, lighting the stove. Subject(s): Escapes; Fairy Tales; Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl (1785-1863); Grimm, Wilhelm Carl (1786-1859); Fugitives UNDINE', by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas far away and long ago Last Line: Unconscious of her coming dreams Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Fairy Tales VANCOUVER ISLAND, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: That dark form lies in a cumulus tower Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Rape; Women VERSES PUBLISHED IN 1831, ADAPTED FROM WELSH FAIRY SONGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From flow'ry meads, and form so green Last Line: To drink the milk of moll, the jade, %whose house is not clean'd well Subject(s): Fairy Tales VISIT, by JUDITH KAZANTZIS Poem Source First Line: A witch showed us a hill of hair Last Line: A mountain of dead women's hair. %rain. %rain Subject(s): Fairy Tales WAR SUITE: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing sixty-seven wars, the war now Last Line: He wishes suddenly to be stronger than a car. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Fairy Tales; Ice; Dead, The |
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