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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FROGS Matches Found: 58 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FROG'S FATE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contemptuous of his home beyond Last Line: Is the one frog we dwell upon. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Frog Subject(s): Animals; Frogs A FROG'S THANKSGIVING, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a frog with a shanty built over each eye Last Line: Well, maybe I am; I'm a frog just the same. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Cannibals; Frogs; Holidays; Thanksgiving ANIMAL DISPUTANS, by MILTON SAWYER ROSE Poem Text First Line: Green passions rise in me like monstrous frogs Last Line: Yet they breathe air, and may one day be birds. Subject(s): Animals; Frogs ASSAULT, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I had forgotten how the frogs must sound Last Line: From one house to another! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Frogs BACCHUS AND THE FROGS, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chorus of frogs: croak - croak - croak! / bacchus: well, well, - you may choke Last Line: Croak—croak—croak! Subject(s): Animals; Bacchus; Frogs; Mythology - Classical BASHO'S FROG, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: A frog went plop in a pond three hundred years Last Line: It sits squat on that luminous leafpad Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Frogs; Memory BIG TURTLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A big turtle sat on the end of a log Last Line: Watching a tadpole turn into a frog Subject(s): Animals; Frogs BREKEKEKEX KOAX KOAX, by ROBERT FULLER MURRAY Poem Text First Line: I love the inoffensive frog Last Line: If other inward parts exist. Subject(s): Animals; Aristophanes (450-388 B.c.); Dramatists; Frogs; Plays & Playwrights BROWN FROG, by MARY K. ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: To-day as I went out to play Subject(s): Animals; Frogs BULLFROG, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With their lithe, long, strong legs Last Line: In your little old woman hands Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Animals; Frogs BULLFROG GROANS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Under the cold often rises Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Nature FOLDING ITS HANDS, by YAMAZAKI SOKAN Poem Source Last Line: The bullfrog Subject(s): Animals; Frogs FROG, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First memory / of swimming underwater Last Line: And croaking in the reeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Authors & Authorship; Frogs; Poetry & Poets FROG, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When he looks at me Last Line: That frog over there! Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Animals; Frogs FROG, by CHRISTIAN NAGLE Poem Source First Line: Where a high window frame encounters brick Last Line: My throat balloons with an ecstatic pulse Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Life FROG, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Better my grandson's crayoned easter pasteup Last Line: Up in volleys toward the watery %sun of first hatch Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Poetry And Poets FROG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What a wonderful bird the frog are Last Line: When he sit, he sit on what he ain't got almost Subject(s): Animals; Frogs FROG COUNTRY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Where there's a will Last Line: With a pardon in my pocket Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Frogs FROG FINDS HIS HOME IN THE DAMP, DAMP WORLD, by TODD HELDT Poem Source First Line: At the bottom of the swamp out back Last Line: Pinned to nowhere on a map %anyone will ever find Subject(s): Animals; Earth; Frogs FROG IN THE SWIMMING POOL, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: A wet green velvet scums the swimming pool Last Line: Halfheartedly, the slide slid into rust, %the old griefs waiting burial by the new Subject(s): Animals; Frogs FROG MUSIC, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Frogs by the ditch Last Line: Frogs spring %into every song Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Music And Musicians FROG-MAKING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said frog papa to frog mamma Last Line: Their tails off all around her. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Frogs FROGS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm broke, and it rained, Subject(s): Frogs; Longing; Conversation I'M FOND OF FROGS, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Frogs LIFE WITH FROG MAN, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: A tendency to want certain things Last Line: And fix old lace cornbread Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Mankind MEADOW-FROGS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere yet the earliest warbler wakes Last Line: Are chanting their rain prophecies. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Frogs MOTETS: 17, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The frog, first to try its chord again Subject(s): Frogs MRS. FRICK'S ANECDOTE, by ELSIE K. HOPWOOD Poem Text First Line: It was the middle of the morning Last Line: Bob's little boat moved on. Subject(s): Animals; Frogs MY FROG IS A FROG, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My frog is a frog that is hopelessly hoarse Subject(s): Frogs ODE TO A FROG, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the hindered freshest cloaked with slime Subject(s): Animals; Frogs OLD POND, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The sound of water Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Animals; Frogs QUEROQUE THE FROG: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by KUSANO SHINPEI Poem Source First Line: I was born in the suburbs of bologna Subject(s): Animals; Frogs SEE. SEE?, by ELIZABETH MACKLIN Poem Source First Line: See where the frog Last Line: Too green. He had to leap Subject(s): Animals; Frogs SEEING THE FROG [OR, THE FROG], by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing the frog %and on its back Last Line: Patched, the warts %of water mine! Subject(s): Animals; Frogs SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 51, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hopping frog, hop here and be seen Last Line: You won't hurt me, and I won't hurt you. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Frog And Toad Subject(s): Animals; Frogs SMALL FROGS KILLED ON THE HIGHWAY, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still, I would leap too Last Line: Of the moon, they can't see, / not yet Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Frogs; Automobile Accidents SMOKING FROG, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three men I saw beside a bar Last Line: The gods must have their laughter. Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Smoking SPECKLE-BLACK TOAD AND FRECKLE-GREEN FROG, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Toads SPRING, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A little mountain spring I found Last Line: Belonged by rights to him Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Springs (water) THE AZURE FROG: 1. PRAYER TO THE GOOD FORESTER, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Good forester, upon our knees we pray you, tell us, if you please, how, Last Line: "man replied to me, ""by this, because he's never seen." Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Frogs; Prayer; Woods THE BULLFROG, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bullfrog he isn't some beautiful bird Last Line: He could jump in the lake and get out of the wet. Subject(s): Animals; Frogs THE COMMUNION, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pondering frog looks Subject(s): Nature; Frogs THE FROG, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be kind and tender to the frog Last Line: They are extremely rare). Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Animals; Frogs THE FROG, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comes to mind as another small Subject(s): Story-telling; Frogs THE FROG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who am I but the frog -- the frog Last Line: And grace to his royal whim! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Courts & Courtiers; Frogs; Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes THE FROGS: THE FROGS' SONG, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brekeke-kex ko-ax ko-ax Last Line: Silenced! -- so there! -- who wins -- our croaking bout? Subject(s): Aeschylus (525-456 B.c.); Animals; Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Frogs THE LONG SIGH OF THE FROG, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For corporal release Subject(s): Frogs THE POST-DRIVER, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lingering loon flies over the marsh Last Line: Oh, what is it that goes cuhchoo? Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Bird-watching; Birds; Frogs THE PROUD FROG, by GAIUS JULIUS PHAEDRUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When poor men to expences run Last Line: She raged and puffed, and burst in two. Subject(s): Animals; Fables; Frogs; Pride; Size And Shape; Allegories; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE TREE-FROG PEDIGREE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our great ancestor, polly wog Last Line: And the family name, tree-frog. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Frogs THERE WAS A FROG SWUM IN THE LAKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: If any do it is not I Subject(s): Animals;frogs;lakes; Pools;ponds TOAD AND THE FROG, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Croak!' said the toad, 'I'm hungry, I think' Subject(s): Animals; Frogs TREE-FROGS, by LIANA SAKELLIOU-SCHULTZ Poem Source First Line: They drive me crazy Last Line: To restrain the needles, %their explosive muscles Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Sound TWENTY FROGGIES, by GEORGE COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty froggies went to school Variant Title(s): Frogs At Schoo Subject(s): Animals; Frogs VERS LIBRE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the deep blue shadows Last Line: That jumped in the pool Subject(s): Animals;bells;frogs WHAT THE FROGS SING, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've got such a cold I cannot sing Last Line: There's nobody knows but himself and me. Subject(s): Animals; Frogs WISDOM BORN OF SPRING, by FLORA WHITE Poem Text First Line: The golden throated frog turning liquidity ... Last Line: As he plunges underneath the darkly shining surface of a pool. Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Spring YOUNG BULLFROGS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jimmy wimbleton listened a first week in june Last Line: Jimmy wimbledon listened. Subject(s): Animals; Frogs |
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