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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