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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FINGERS Matches Found: 27 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BESTIARY FOR THE FINGERS OF MY RIGHT HAND, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thumb, loose tooth of a horse Subject(s): Fingers BESTIARY FOR THE FINGERS OF MY RIGHT HAND, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thumb, loose tooth of a horse Last Line: His touch is gentle. %it weighs a tear. %it takes the mote out of the eye Subject(s): Fingers BRIGHT BEADS, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep well, my child, and rest those baby feet Last Line: A fan-shaped group of little bones ... Bright beads. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Fingers; Funerals; Infants; Death - Babies; Burials EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE FINGERS AND THE TOES, by JOHN FULLER Poem Source First Line: Cramped, you are hardly anything but fidgets Last Line: Despite your fabrications and your cunning, %the deepest instinct is expressed in running Subject(s): Fingers; Toes FINGER DANCE (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dance, thumbkin, dance" Last Line: "thumbkin, he can dance alone" Subject(s): Fingers FINGER DANCE (2), by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dance, foreman, dance Last Line: Foreman, he can dance alone. Subject(s): Fingers FINGER DANCE (3), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dance, longman, dance" Last Line: "longman, he can dance alone" Subject(s): Fingers FINGER DANCE (4), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dance, ringman, dance" Last Line: "ringman, he can dance alone" Subject(s): Fingers FINGER DANCE (5), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dance, littleman, dance" Last Line: "littleman, he can dance alone" Subject(s): Fingers FINGER DANCE (6), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "thumbkin says, I'll dance" Last Line: "thumbkin says, I'll dance and sing" Subject(s): Fingers GRUNT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He'd lived there all his life, was over Last Line: On banna strand Subject(s): Fingers; Funerals; Thumbs HANDS, by HENRY SPIESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hands that in my dream I see Last Line: And I wait and wait. . . . Subject(s): Fingers; Hallucinations And Illusions; Hands INDEX, A MOUNTAIN; PART OF THE CASCADE RANGE, WASHINGTON STATE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early one day a mountain uprose, all cased in silver Last Line: Serve as god's tombstone. Have no green mercy on us. Subject(s): Cascade Range; Fingers; Lumber & Lumbering; Travel; Washington (state); Women; Women's Rights; Woodsmen; Journeys; Trips; Feminism LONG FINGERS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The twilight is long fingers and black hair Last Line: Once touched long fingers, which are not anything Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Fingers MEXICAN NURSERY RHYME: 8. FINGER PLAY GAME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "one is a boy, pretty and small" Last Line: And five is strong as a wall Subject(s): Fingers MOTHER'S FINGERS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Mother's fingers fashion wonders Last Line: And in looking at the pictures, quite forget things done at home Subject(s): Mothers; Fingers ON THE LOSS OF HIS FINGER, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much more blest are trees than men! Last Line: And we in heaven shake hands again. Subject(s): Accidents; Fingers SLENDER FINGERS, by CHAO LUAN-LUAN Poem Source First Line: Slender, delicate, soft jade Last Line: Yesterday on the lute strings %all their nails were painted scarlet Subject(s): Fingers THE BASKET-MAKERS' SONG, by ANDRE THEURIET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Water-willows! Water-willows! Last Line: Through my fingers bend your billows! Subject(s): Fingers; Singing & Singers THE BLACK FINGER, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have just seen a most beautiful thing Last Line: And why are you pointing upwards? Subject(s): African Americans; Fingers; Nature; Negroes; American Blacks THE JOB; FOR TOBEY, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my friend lost her little finger Last Line: To what's turning in the world. Subject(s): Accidents; Factories; Fingers; Touch (sense) THUMB BOLD / THIBITY-THOLD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Mammie's wee man Subject(s): Fingers THUMB HE / WIZBEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Little jack-a-dandy Subject(s): Fingers TOM THUMBKIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And little dick Subject(s): Fingers UPON THE LOSS OF HIS LITTLE FINGER, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arithmetic nine digits, and no more Last Line: How soon mischance hath made a hand of thee. Subject(s): Accidents; Fingers UPON THE LOSSE OF HIS FINGER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of the five straight branches of my hand Last Line: First dyes the leafe, the bough next, next the tree. Subject(s): Fingers WRITING ABOUT MY HAND, by STAN TYSELL Poem Source First Line: I knuckle under to an undulating Last Line: A torn fingernail spirit Subject(s): Fingers; Hands; Thumbs; Writing And Writers |
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