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| Searching... Subject: FLIES Matches Found: 72 "JIM CRACK CORN, OR THE BLUE TAIL FLY", by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN Poem Text First Line: When I was young I us'd to wait / on massa and hand him de plate Last Line: "I nebber forget till de day I die, / ole massa an' dat blue tail fly" Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs;flies;slavery; Negro Spirituals;serfs 1989, by NOVICA TADIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: May god in heaven bless you Last Line: Oh yes. %yes Subject(s): Flies A FLY ABOUT A GLASS OF BURNT CLARET, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forbear this liquid fire, fly Last Line: Thou wouldst be scorched and drowned again! Subject(s): Flies A FLY CAUGHT IN A COBWEB, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small type of great ones, that do hum Last Line: Bound with the entrails of thy foe. Subject(s): Cobwebs; Flies A FLY THAT FLEW INTO MY MISTRESS HER EYE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When this fly liv'd she us'd to play Last Line: Funeral, flame, tomb, obsequy. Subject(s): Flies ANONYMITY, by AUGUSTINE PORRAS Poem Source First Line: I sat next to my uncle who still had the gift Last Line: He tells me, it is what we struggle for all our life Subject(s): Flies; Uncles BEFORE A SCREEN DOOR, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: Over a darkening spill, water lilies tip Last Line: Trying to forget the touch of so many small deaths Subject(s): Flies; Memory BLUE-FLY, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Five summer days, five summer nights Last Line: To glut the carriers of her epidemics - %nor did the peach complain Subject(s): Epidemics; Flies BUSY, CURIOUS, THIRSTY FLY, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Flies BUTTERFLY IN HONORED DUST, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: So chastened as the fly Variant Title(s): Poem: 1246; Poem: 130 Subject(s): Flies BUZZ, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why was I born if I have to die Last Line: And when it grew tired it rested Subject(s): Flies CALVUS TO A FLY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Little fly, alighting fitfully Last Line: And die a martyr to thy love of light. Subject(s): Flies COCKY AND WEESHY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Cocky robin hops out through the black bars Last Line: Hops back in again Subject(s): Birds; Flies; Ireland COLD FLY, by YANG WAN-LI Poem Source First Line: Noted outside the window: a fly, the sun on his back Last Line: Suddenly flies off, to hum by a different window Subject(s): Flies DADDY LONG-LEGS AND THE FLY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once mr daddy long-legs, %dressed in brown and gray Last Line: At battlecock and shuttledore Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Wings DEERFLIES DIE BY THE BILLIONS, THE COOL AIR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And the moon drifts closer to the cabin door Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Air; Flies; Nature; Night DOZEN DEAD HOUSEFLIES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of summer, smashed on the sill Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Flies; Nature; Summer DYING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a fly buzz when I died Last Line: I could not see to see. Subject(s): Death; Flies; Labor & Laborers; Mourning; Pain; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery EDUCATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Bifurca, a species of fruit fly Last Line: A fly may educate a man Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; Flies; Knowledge; Reproductive System; Sex FLIES ON SHIT, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the gentlemen from the south Subject(s): Southern States; Flies; South (u.s.) FLY, by MICHAEL BRUCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Prithee, little buzzing fly Subject(s): Flies FLY, by MIROSLAV HOLUB Poem Source First Line: She sat on the willow bark Last Line: Fleeing %from the fires of estres Subject(s): Decay; Flies FLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I killed a fly Last Line: I lay my body down beside the fly Subject(s): Flies FLY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God [or, the lord] in his wisdom made the fly Last Line: And then forgot to tell us why Subject(s): Flies FLY, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O hideous little bat, the size of snot Last Line: And dies between three cannibals Subject(s): Flies; Hate FLY, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And the fly said: nothing Last Line: I say, he will not return Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Flies FLY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have we done this winter to deserve Last Line: Swat not, not I at the moment, all eye Subject(s): Flies FLY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What have we done this winter to deserve Last Line: Swat not, not I at the moment, all eye Subject(s): Flies FLY ON THE WATER, by PAUL ZWEIG Poem Source First Line: It is eating me Last Line: A fly skates on nothing, on tension: %something abstract as a prayer, or as love Subject(s): Flies FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 7. NAPLES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw at a table of the bombed cafe Last Line: Changed into flies and drew a cloud about him Subject(s): Flies; Naples, Italy; Ruins FULFILLED, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: I am wed, but not to flesh Last Line: Future and present and grinning past. Subject(s): Flies; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances GLOSSINA MORSITANS, OR THE TSETSE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A glossina morsitans bit rich aunt betsy Last Line: Tsk, tsk, tsetse Subject(s): Flies HARRIET (2), by ROBERT LOWELL Poet's Biography First Line: A repeating fly, blueback, thumbthick - so gross Subject(s): Flies HARRIET (2), by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A repeating fly, blueback, thumbthick - so gross Last Line: Under the carpet, wrinkling to fulfillment Subject(s): Flies HUMAN FLIES, by KATHARINE ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Because there was a thing to advertise Last Line: And all our earth is black with fallen flies. Subject(s): Flies I FORGET MYSELF, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: The blue flies who smell blood Last Line: Too fast to slow down Subject(s): Flies I KILLED A FLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: I lay my body down beside the fly Subject(s): Flies; Death; Dead, The IMMORTALITY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sleeping beauty's castle Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Sleeping Beauty; Time; Flies IT'S THE DEVIL'S, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That flies sleep %at night Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Devil; Flies; Nature; Night JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 38, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of our vsiitors, I do not know which I dislike most Subject(s): Beetles; Flies JULY, AND FAT BLACK FLIES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Right out of the air Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Flies; July; Nature LONG-LEGGED FLY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That civilization may not sink Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Civilization; Flies LONG-LEGGED FLY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That civilization may not sink Last Line: Like a long-legged fly upon the stream %his mind moves upon silence Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Civilization; Flies MAYFLIES, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: The god of mayflies allots his creatures years Last Line: Appear in swarms like a finely stippled cloud of %furious life Subject(s): Flies MAYFLIES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In sombre forest, when the sun was low Subject(s): Flies; Nature MAYFLIES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In sombre forest, when the sun was low Last Line: How fair the fiats of the caller are Subject(s): Flies; Nature MIGRANT WINGS, by RALPH J. DONAHUE Poem Text First Line: They are moving down the star-lanes Last Line: As they fly! Subject(s): Flies MOSCA, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A fly sits & scrubs his front feet Last Line: Why is buzzing considered idle? Subject(s): Flies NOVEMBER SUNSHINE AND THE HOUSE-FLIES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the dawn struck on memnon, as they say Last Line: For foothold, in that roaring world without! Subject(s): Flies ON A FLY DRINKING FROM HIS CUP, by WILLIAM OLDYS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Busy, curious, thirsty fly! Last Line: Will appear as short as one! Variant Title(s): The Fly. Occasioned By A Fly Drinking Out Of The Author's Cup;the Fly Subject(s): Flies; Time ON FINDING A SMALL FLY CRUSHED IN A BOOK, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some hand, that never meant to do thee hurt Last Line: Yet leave no lustre on our page of death. Subject(s): Death; Flies; Dead, The SPIDER AND FLY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once when morn was flowing in Last Line: Sitting on her silver stairs. Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Spiders; Bugs SPRING IS HERE, by DON C. NIXON Poem Text First Line: Winter's left us for the year Last Line: It's nice that spring is here. Subject(s): Flies; Spring STANZAS TO AN INTOXICATED FLY, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's a singular fact that whenever I order Last Line: For such an occasion than animal food. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flies; Wine STOUT BODIED FLY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Despised fly with your piercing mouthpiece Last Line: I hear-buzzing Subject(s): Flies; Insects THE BLUE-FLY, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Five summer days, five summer nights Subject(s): Epidemics; Flies THE FLIES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, sire of insects, mighty sol Last Line: Both raised, but by their party's favour. Subject(s): Devil; Flies; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE FLIES, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here are the baits, the hooks Subject(s): Flies THE FLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I killed a fly Last Line: I lay my body down beside the fly Subject(s): Flies; Death THE FLY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God [or, the lord] in his wisdom made the fly Subject(s): Flies THE FLY, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the wine-pot cried the fly Last Line: Thus from the wine-pot, &c. Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Flies THE FLY, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O hideous little bat, the size of snot Subject(s): Flies; Hate THE FLY'S LECTURE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time, when, tempted to repine Last Line: And served with light by two metallic eyes. Subject(s): Flies THE FLY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little fly, / thy summer's play Last Line: Or if I die. Subject(s): Bible; Flies; Mythology THE POET AND THE FLY: 1, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round the poet, ere he slumbered Last Line: He had shut the creature in. Subject(s): Flies THE POET AND THE FLY: 2, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While unto dawn succeeded day Last Line: If you can find its moral, do. Subject(s): Flies THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: MIDGES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is talking aesthetics, the dear clever creature! Last Line: O you dear clever woman, explain it, I beg! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): England; Flies; Travel; English; Journeys; Trips TO A FLY, TAKEN OUT OF A BOWL OF PUNCH, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Poor intoxicated little knave Last Line: Then, like an alligator, drags him in. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flies; Wine UP THE DARK VALLEY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the lean road looping the narrow river Last Line: The birds of darkness sang back every call Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Locusts; Spiders; Bugs UPON A FLIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A golden flie one shew'd to me Last Line: Dead, and closed up in yvorie. Subject(s): Flies UPON A SPIDER CATCHING A FLY, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sorrow, venom elf Last Line: For joy. Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Puritans In Literature; Spiders; Bugs WHAT IS A WOMAN LIKE?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A woman is like to - but stay Subject(s): Flies;love;women |
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