|
|
|
|
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FOSSILS Matches Found: 23 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GEOLOGICAL MADRIGAL, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have found out a gift for my fair Last Line: Our fossil ancestors in rock! Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Fossils; Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Poetry & Poets A GEOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lurid volcanoes were guarding the pole Last Line: Where they wait them the dragon and ichthyosaur! Subject(s): Death; Dinosaurs; Fossils; Geology; Nature; Volcanoes; Dead, The AN AUTOGRAPH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the wet sands an insect crept Last Line: Shall 'scape oblivion's broom so long? Subject(s): Autographs; Fossils; Thought; Thinking ASHFALL FOSSIL BEDS, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Once, long ago, in what is now idaho Last Line: Needed only to die down for it to fall Subject(s): Abandonment; Bones; Fossils; Skulls DEPARTURES, by JANET HOLMES Poem Source First Line: How many thousands of years ago it left (or tried to leave; Last Line: You protest, squinting at your own face. - but it is Subject(s): Air Travel; Dinosaurs; Fossils DINOSAUR NATIONAL, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jewelers, / in goggles and buttercup hardhats, Last Line: Footprints, as they passed in the ashes. Subject(s): Archeology; Dinosaurs; Fossils; Mothers FISH IN THE STONE, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Strokes the fern's %voluptuous braille Variant Title(s): The Fish In The Ston Subject(s): Fossils FOSSIL, by E. D. BLODGETT Poem Source First Line: No branch nor the last grass Last Line: It prints silence Subject(s): Fossils FOSSIL, by JR. BOYNTON MERRILL Poem Source First Line: I am content Subject(s): Fossils; Religion FOSSIL KNOWLEDGE, by MOLLY MCQUADE Poem Source First Line: The lavishness is what I'd criticize Last Line: In a scribble-scrabble %on a flat stone Subject(s): Fossils; Knowledge FOSSIL OF A BIRD HITTING GLASS, by ALLISON BENNIS Poem Source First Line: Between toward and shock there is a window Last Line: Is made the moment air turns to glass Subject(s): Birds; Fossils; Glass And Glassblowers FOSSIL, 1919, by JANET LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found a little ancient fern Last Line: In a a round apricot velvet case. Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Fossils FOSSIL, 1975, by JANET LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Changed and not changed. Three million years Last Line: Changed and not changed. The spirit hears %in drifting fern the morning air Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs. Subject(s): Fossils; Religion FOSSILS, by J.T. BARBARESE Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When he was young he used to spend the whole summer Subject(s): Fossils FOSSILS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cliff over the frog pond Last Line: Over the least fossil %day breaks in gold, frankincense, and myrrh Subject(s): Fossils FOSSILS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time was carboniferous Last Line: Encyclope-di-a! Subject(s): Fossils HOW FUTILE A THING DIRECTION IS, by GEORGE LOONEY Poem Source First Line: Silos tick in below zero weather wind chill makes a fossil of touch out Last Line: Breasts made me believe silos could hold memory and sift it into maps I %could use to touch a woman Subject(s): Death; Fossils; Man-woman Relationships IT'S NICE TO THINK THAT WHEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thin layer of rock Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Fossils; Nature OUTCROP, by MATTHEW JOY Poem Source First Line: Red-tinged rock outcrop Last Line: Through millions of years %recording these secrets Subject(s): Fossils; High School Students; History; Teenagers SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES THE SCIENCE CLASS: FOSSILS, PHYSICS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fossil bones, splintered bits of pelvis Last Line: By rubbing it across the heart. Subject(s): Christianity; Fossils; Human Behavior; Schools; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Students THE FISH IN THE STONE, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Strokes the fern's / voluptuous braille Subject(s): Fossils THE FOSSILS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cliff over the frog pond Subject(s): Fossils WE WERE HUNTING FOSSILS, by GARY YOUNG Poem Source First Line: We were hunting fossils, sifting gravel through steel screens, when Last Line: There is no answer what they're saved Subject(s): Fossils; Survival |
|