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| Searching... Subject: INSECTS Matches Found: 733 "DIRGE (TO THE MEMORY OF MISS ELLEN GREE, OF KEW ...)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Peerless yet hapless maid of q! Last Line: Her dirge and leg Subject(s): Alphabets;bees;death;funerals;insects;language; "beekeeping;dead, The;burials;bugs;words;vocabulary; A BEE-KEEPER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When bees come hither in the fair springtide Last Line: The neighbour of the mountain-peak is dead Subject(s): Bees;insects; Beekeeping;bugs A BESTIARY: THE ANT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the ant is mighty, tho' small" Last Line: "now, and on the last great day, / when we be in need" Subject(s): Ants;insects; Bugs A BESTIARY: THE SPIDER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some things created they be Last Line: When he worketh upon him ill Subject(s): Insects;spiders; Bugs A BLACK PATCH ON LUCASTA'S FACE (1), by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dull as I was, to think that a court fly Last Line: But the sweet little bees large monument. Subject(s): Bees; Faces; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs A CONSERVATIVE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The garden beds I wandered by Last Line: Into his chrysalis. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs A DIET OF WORMS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The caterpillars met one day Last Line: For dinner! Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs A DREAM (1), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I was a spider Last Line: And devoured them one by one. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Insects; Spiders; Nightmares; Bugs A FABLE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said a little boy to a honey bee Last Line: Said the honey bee to the little boy. Subject(s): Bees; Boys; Fables; Insects; Play; Beekeeping; Allegories; Bugs A GARDEN IDYL, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With sagest craft arachne worked Last Line: A solitary filament. Subject(s): Insects; Mythology; Spiders; Bugs A MORE ANCIENT MARINER, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The swarthy bee is a buccaneer Last Line: With the mercury at zero. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs A NATURE-LOVER PASSES, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Bees, go tell the things he treasured Last Line: Bid his loved wild things befriend him! Subject(s): Bees; Death; Insects; Beekeeping; Dead, The; Bugs A RAINBOW FOUNDATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once a spider built a cobweb on a rainbow bright and gay Last Line: "with foundations not so showy, but more firm and permanent!" Subject(s): Insects; Rainbows; Spiders; Bugs A SLEEPING BEAUTY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text 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 A SLEEPY SONG, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly swings on the flower alseep Last Line: Sleepy time, sleepy time now! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Sleep; Bugs A SOLILOQUY; OCCASIONED BY THE CHIRPING OF A GRASSHOPPER, by WALTER HARTE Poem Text First Line: Happy insect! Ever blest Last Line: Thou art starved, and so am I! Subject(s): Grasshoppers; Insects; Life; Bugs A SONG, by S. P. (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: Oh, the hopper grass is clattering and flying all the day Last Line: And the katydid is chirping all night long. Subject(s): Insects; Bugs A SONG OF A GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a thing a garden is Last Line: To bid grow, to increase! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Insects; Medicine; Quiet Life; Beekeeping; Nightmares; Bugs; Drugs, Prescription A SONG OF THE SEASON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am a moth ball Last Line: But out! Subject(s): Animals;environment;insects;moths; Environmental Protection;ecology;conservation;bugs A SUMMER NIGHT IN THE BEEHIVE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little bee returns with evening's gloom Last Line: Another day of honey has begun! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs A WOOD ORCHID, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a butterfly, wing-weary, came to find" Last Line: Of pink flushed wings -- and found them rooted there Subject(s): Butterflies;insects; Bugs ACTING ON A TIP, by JAMES TATE Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We went to the bug-eating state Subject(s): Camping; Insects; Camps; Summer Camps; Bugs ACTING ON A TIP, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We went to the bug-eating state Last Line: They announced in unison, 'we are camped here.' Subject(s): Camping; Insects AFFINITY FOR BEES, by VIRGINIA MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: Lark liked to be barefoot in the garden Last Line: To be intimate with roses Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Insects; Roses AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How doth the little busy bee / improve each shining hour Last Line: Some good account at last. Variant Title(s): The Busy Bee Subject(s): Bees; Children; Insects; Beekeeping; Childhood; Bugs ALL DAY: WINDOW-BARS, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I lie still Last Line: From dawn to dark! Subject(s): Birds; Insects; Windows; Bugs ALL OF THE SNAILS ARE STARTING A RACE, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: Give them a minute, and see if they budge Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects ALLEGORY OF THE BEES, by PAUL LAKE Poem Source First Line: Affectless drones, observing the wild dance Last Line: While honey-drudgers leave in steady lines %tracking the legend to tis honeyed source Subject(s): Bees; Honeycombs; Insects; Nature ALPHABESTIARY: A, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A is for ant Last Line: Practically %forever Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Ants; Insects AMPHITYRON, OR THE TWO SOSIAS: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The laboring bee, when his sharp sting is gone Last Line: To make fine fools of you, and all your parts. Subject(s): Bees; Fame; Insects; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Beekeeping; Reputation; Bugs; Dramatists; Stage Life AN AUGUST MIDNIGHT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shaded lamp and a waving blind Last Line: They know earth-secrets that know not I. Subject(s): Insects; Bugs ANCESTRY, by NANCY BAILEY MILLER Poem Source First Line: In tiny adelstrop still buzz the bees Last Line: And honey crystallizes on the shelf to tease Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects ANOTHER SPRING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Over the breadboard Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Nature; Spring ANT, by ZOE BAILEY Poem Source First Line: Black is his color Last Line: Towards some crack in an enormous ark Subject(s): Animals; Ants; Insects ANT, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ant has made himself illustrious Last Line: If you were full of formic acid? Subject(s): Ants; Insects ANT AND THE THERAPIST, by GAIL MARTIN Poem Source First Line: We know you hate us. We startle Last Line: And tunneling toward darkness Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Psychiatry ANT HILL, by CYNTHIA ZARIN Poem Source First Line: Sand pyramid, size of a child, each september Last Line: Turned violet as its shadow Subject(s): Ants; Insects ANT MANSION, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rubbing of the sleeping bag on my ear made me dream Last Line: My father's labor who sees? It is in a pasture somewhere %not yet found by a walker Variant Title(s): Finding An Old Ant Mansio Subject(s): Ants; Insects ANT WORLD: THE LEAF-CUTTERS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Cross-sectioned and cubed Last Line: Leaf bit by leaf bit Subject(s): Ants; Farm Life; Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Insects; Leaves; Nature; Trees ANTS, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We tunnel through your noonday out to you Last Line: Carry at least her parasites below Subject(s): Ants; Insects ANTS, by DAISY WRIGHT FIELD Poem Text First Line: I read of a man who was tied down Last Line: By the little things. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Wright Subject(s): Ants; Duty; Insects; Women; Bugs ANTS, by KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN Poem Source First Line: I stood in my mother's kitchen Subject(s): Ants; Insects ANTS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Acrobatic %antish %antics Subject(s): Insects ANTS AND OTHERS, by ADRIEN STOUTENBURG Poem Source First Line: Their spare, frantic sentry comes Last Line: Of loaves and fishes everywhere Subject(s): Ants; Insects ANTS CRAWL, by ELEANOR SCHICK Poem Source Last Line: To them Subject(s): Animals; Ants; Insects ARACHNE, by JODY ALIESAN Poem Source First Line: She was a weaver %what she made was too perfect Last Line: Climbing over warp ties on my loom %they're harmless %but they distract me %and I make mistakes Subject(s): Insects; Spiders ARACHNE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch her in the corner there Last Line: But day by day I spin my shroud. Subject(s): Fate; Insects; Spiders; Destiny; Bugs ARACHNE, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs ARACHNE, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves Last Line: Male spiders must not be too early slain Subject(s): Insects; Spiders ARACHNE, by DASHKA SLATER Poem Source First Line: Oh, arachne, how many times you appeared in corners Subject(s): Insects; Spiders ARACHNOTATIONS, by LAUREN SMITH Poem Source First Line: In the days of our father's spiderhood Last Line: The spider calls for each of us in our own names Subject(s): Insects; Spiders ARIEL'S SONG (2), FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the bee sucks, there suck I Last Line: Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Elves; Bugs ARMY ANTS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Left %right %left %right Last Line: We miss your place Subject(s): Insects ARRIVAL OF THE BEE BOX, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I ordered this, this clean wood box Last Line: The box is only temporary Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Insects ARRIVAL OF THE BEE BOX, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: I ordered this, this clean wood box Last Line: The box is only temporary Subject(s): Bees; Insects ATHOLE BROSE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Willie an' I cam doun by blair Last Line: And in by tullibardine. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Bees; Gardens & Gardening; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 11, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like some drowsy bayaderes Last Line: Is a duel with a bug! Subject(s): Insects; Love; Bugs AUTUMN DUSK, AND IN THE GRASS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Drain off the light Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Autumn; Insects; Nature; Seasons; Spiders AWAKENING, by WILLIAM WANTLING Poem Source First Line: I found the bee as it fumbled about the ground Last Line: I stared, I was appalled, I was overwhelmed %with responsibility, and I knew not where to %begin Subject(s): Bees; Insects BAGATELLES: 1, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: The wanton bee that suck'd the rose Last Line: Beyond the dying day. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Love; Roses; Beekeeping; Bugs BALLADE OF THE BEES OF TREBIZOND, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There blooms a flower in trebizond Last Line: To taste that honey is to die. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs BAZOOKA, by WILLIAM HARMON Poem Source First Line: A bee is busy as can be with its Last Line: Worth less than many a tepid epitaph Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Reason BEASTS, SELS., by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: The ant-heaps furthest in Last Line: And they get the better of deepest winters %in another deep Subject(s): Animals; Ants; Insects BEAUTIFUL WINGS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful wings that beat the void Last Line: Builds heaven overhead. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Poetry & Poets; Bugs BEDBUGS, by ELIZABETH AOKI Poem Source First Line: This kind of wiggly, lovable pest Last Line: Your doctor advises you make the bloodsucker %uncomfortable Subject(s): Beds; Insects BEE, by ENRIQUE ALVAREZ HENAO Poem Source First Line: Wee sovereign of the forest dense and gray Last Line: And white wax for the tapers of the dead Subject(s): Bees; Forests; Honey; Insects BEE, by JOHN FANDEL Poem Source First Line: A zig-zag bee, zzz and zzz-ing, came Subject(s): Bees; Insects BEE, by HENRY HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: To bethlehem's silly shed, methinks I see %the virgin hasten like a busy bee Last Line: She was the bee, the hive her sacred womb Subject(s): Bees; Insects BEE AND THE LILY, by THOMAS WESTWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Buzz! Went the bee, with a merry din Subject(s): Bees; Insects BEE IN AMBER, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of his life's labors as a collector Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Bees; Insects BEE MEETING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the Last Line: Whose is that long white box in the grove, what have they %acoomplished, why am I cold Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Fear; Insects BEE SETS SAIL, by KATHARINE DUNCAN MORSE Poem Source First Line: The wind blows east, the wind blows storm Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Insects BEE SONG, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: We lie in a maze of bee clover Last Line: Wild %bee %sighs Subject(s): Bees; Insects BEE! I'M EXPECTING YOU!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Or better, be with me, %yours, fly Variant Title(s): Poem: 1035; Poem: 98 Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Imagination; Insects BEE'S BURIAL, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Encased & shining in a bead of amber Last Line: Coffined in honey - as any bee could wish Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Bees; Insects BEE, THE ANT, AND THE SPARROW, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My dears, 'tis said in days of old Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Sparrows BEE-MASTER, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita Subject(s): Bees; Insects BEE; TO GRANCIS DE MIOMANDRE, by PAUL VALERY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What and how keen and mortal soever Last Line: By that tiniest golden alert %for lack of which love dies orsleeps! Subject(s): Bees; Insects BEEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A garden of mouthings. Purple, scarlet-speckled, black Last Line: Under the coronal of sugar roses %the queen bee marries the winter of your year Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Fathers And Daughters; Insects BEES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bees are black, with gilt surcingles Last Line: Jugs - a universe's fracture %could not jar or spill Variant Title(s): Poem: 1405; Poem: 142 Subject(s): Bees; Insects BEES, by KATE FARRELL Poem Source First Line: I took it for years Last Line: Soft and murmuring %with the hum of wings Subject(s): Bees; Insects BEES, by MONK GIBBON Poem Source First Line: Then to the bees one said Subject(s): Bees; Insects BEES, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Sipping pods %like cups of tea Subject(s): Insects BEES, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After a bear ransacked their hive, strewing wood, wax Last Line: The bees swarmed the locked doors, fireplace screen, floor. The house %hummed Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Nature BEES, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A swarm of bees in may Last Line: Is not worth a fly. Variant Title(s): Hampshire Bee-keeping Rhyme Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs BEES, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every bee Last Line: And partly %- buzz Subject(s): Bees; Insects BEES, by LOLA RIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bees over the gooseberry bushes Last Line: If you venture so high in the blue air Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Insects BEES, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: I had to do it. %they charged and stung the carpenter Last Line: Conceals and covers us and our congenial sleep Subject(s): Bees; Death; Flowers; Insects; Murder BEES, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Source First Line: Bees don't care about the snow Subject(s): Bees; Insects BEES, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: That the bees were born in the corpse of the injured animal Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs BEES, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That the bees were born in the corpse of the injured animal Last Line: Into sweetness, and the dark into the sun, and the bees %thus born Subject(s): Bees; Insects BEES BEFORE WINTER, by MERRILL MOORE Poem Source First Line: His bees went very far that night Subject(s): Bees; Insects BEES IN CLOVER; A SONG, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the dewy slopes of morning Last Line: Falls in tune? Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs BEETLE, by EDITH KING Poem Source First Line: The other day, to my surprise Subject(s): Beetles; Insects BEETLE LIGHT; FOR DANIEL HILLEN, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hornets collect on the side of the sun Last Line: The exterminator. Very soon they will die. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Extermination & Exterminators; Insects; Light; Poetry & Poets; Bugs BEETLES, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Oblivious to all they pass Subject(s): Insects BESTIARY / BESTIARIO, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I could speak with birds Last Line: What was the name of the cat Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Nature BIG TOMATO - JUICY, FAT, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: Gonna make a major splat Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects BIOLOGY LESSON, by JR. JOHN D. ENGLE First Line: Watch a caterpillar %eating his way Last Line: Freedom, wings! Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; Caterpillars; Insects BIOMASS OF ANTS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of small homes, hard work, big women Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Nature BIRDS AND BUGS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: What to do next? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Insects; Nature BLACK LEG OF A SPIDER, by JOHN JOSEPH MCKERNAN Poem Source First Line: Lies in the dead center Last Line: That litters every stop sign in omaha Subject(s): Insects; Spiders BLACK WIDOW SPIDER, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: I am a widow Last Line: I don't wear blue denim Subject(s): Insects BLIND HUBER (12), by NICK FLYNN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus transfixed, stare blank at one Last Line: But not as much as I had hoped Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs BLUE BUTTERFLY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lucy paused for the blue butterfly Last Line: Is whispering in my lonely walk anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Butterflies; England; Insects; Landscape; English; Bugs BLUE-BUTTERFLY DAY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is blue-butterfly day here in spring Last Line: Where wheels have freshly sliced the april mire. Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BLUETICKS, by EDMUND AUGUST Poem Source First Line: They were blueticks, coon dogs Last Line: The fossils of feelings and sense - %excoriating one plat of earth Subject(s): Insects BOINK! 'SOMEONE SAID SOMEONE FOUND SOMETHING DEAD!', by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: Boink! 'it's a skin, but there's nobody in!' Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects BOOK LICE, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: I was born in a Last Line: To attract Subject(s): Insects BROWNY BEE, by IRENE F. PAWSEY Poem Source First Line: Little mr. Browny bee Subject(s): Bees; Insects BUGS ARE DIGGING - SCOOP IT OUT, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: Dung balls rolling - move 'em out! Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects BUMBLE BEE, D. D., by ORTHA L. WILNER Poem Text First Line: Beside a haughty fleur-de-lis Last Line: To the weed of gold. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs BUMBLEBEE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Too many bs but life is like that Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Insects; Nature BUMBLEBEE, by EDNA D. WOOD Poem Source First Line: Bublebee, I'm sure I like you Subject(s): Bees; Insects BUMMER BEETLE, ON HIS BACK, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: Pity, pity bummer beetle Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects BUT DEAN,, by MELISSA HUSEMAN Poem Source First Line: I say it is love. The ladybugs Last Line: When I say it is love? That love, love, love %cannot stop? Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Love BUTTERFLIES, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Butterflies have no wings Last Line: So that the butterfly shall be harder to swallow Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Survival; Wings BUTTERFLIES, by SAINT-PAUL ROUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun Last Line: Time tells the rosary of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Paul Pierre; Roux, P0l Subject(s): Angels; Butterflies; Colors; Insects; Spring; Bugs BUTTERFLIES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Frail travellers, deftly flickering over the flowers Last Line: To know but this, the phantom glare of day. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY, by SUSAN ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: The fur on your wings makes you a lion Last Line: Underneath the leaves of the aspens. %green drunken curses. The sheep graze so quickly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: All the world is drowning in light and song Last Line: We'll put down together with a kiss Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those things %which you so laughingly call Last Line: They give %my body Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To remind itself of something Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature BUTTERFLY, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bird of the moths! That radiant winf Last Line: The upper air, the fields that shine, %for ever in the light of god Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, by KIM YONGT'AE Poem Source First Line: Past grassland Last Line: A piece of cloth enendingly transparent Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward, strong beyond the garden wall Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward, strong beyond the garden wall Last Line: It is enough! I saw you vanish into air Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, by ALICE FREEMAN PALMER Poem Source First Line: I hold you at last in my hand Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of living creatures most I prize Last Line: When mother leans to say good night Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of living creatures most I prize Last Line: When mother leans to say good night Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Butterfly, butterfly, sipping the sand Last Line: That sand-filtered water tastes better to you? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY, by TSUBOI SHIGEJI Poem Source First Line: In the sample room Last Line: So bright that it brought tears Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY (1), by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Butterfly, / I like the way your wear your wings Last Line: And evening murmurs by. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY (2), by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked through my garden Last Line: "I have to go the opposite way." Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs BUTTERFLY AND THE CATERPILLAR, by JOSEPH LAUREN Poem Source Subject(s): Butterflies; Caterpillars; Insects BUTTERFLY FARM, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: A bit absurd perhaps - these exotica of steaming Last Line: The wholeness of them, the ephemeral %lesson of their lives Subject(s): Butterflies; Farm Life; Heaven; Insects BUTTERFLY FROM SEOUL, by SONGDAECHUN Poem Source First Line: A butterfly from seoul breezed through Last Line: Of plum, he found no gesture for his joy Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY HAS FLOWN AWAY, by HWANG SOG'U Poem Source First Line: Into the yellow canna Last Line: Unoccupied as a house %except by a lonely girl Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY LAUGHTER, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of our porridge plate Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Butterflies; Grandparents; Insects; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Bugs BUTTERFLY LAUGHTER, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of our porridge plate Last Line: And perch on grandmother's lap Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Butterflies; Grandparents; Insects BUTTERFLY MIND, by STEPHEN CRAIG KNAUTH Poem Source First Line: Little wood satyr Last Line: Here in the gragile confection of now Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Reason BUTTERFLY ON ROCK, by IRVING LAYTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The large yellow wings, black-fringed Last Line: And brought my hand down on the butterfly %and felt the rock move beneath my hand Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Butterfly, butterfly, butterfly, butterfly Last Line: The clouds sprinkle down the rain Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY WINGS, by LOUISE CRENSHAW RAY Poem Text First Line: Some far off summer day, when you shall see Last Line: Oh, magic touch of dusky velvet wings! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Magic; Poppies; Bugs BUTTERFLY'S BRAIN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Guides her to mexico Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animal Intelligence; Butterflies; Insects; Nature BUTTERFLY'S DREAM, by HANNAH FLAGG GOULD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A tulip, just opened, had offered to hold Last Line: But he crept under covert and died Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects BUTTERFLY'S NUMIDIAN GOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: As if it undone Variant Title(s): Poem: 1387; Poem: 139 Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects CABBAGE BUTTERFLY, by HENRI COLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Something like volcanic ash wafted in air. Last Line: To my brow, it was lighter than a dollar, %yet nourished me like manna where I stood. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects CALENDAR, by ERIKA MAILMAN Poem Source First Line: In the cellar she fingers the jars of honey Last Line: One urges forget me I was never here %and the speaker forgets who spoke Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Seasons; Time CATERPILLAR, by HELEN BURLIN Poem Source First Line: The grass has come alive Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects CATERPILLAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Intent upon its own career %what use has it for me Variant Title(s): How Soft A Caterpillar Steps; Poem: 1448; Poem: 152 Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects CATERPILLAR, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: She eats eight leaves at least Last Line: And checks out: madame butterfly - %how super! Subject(s): Insects CATERPILLAR, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: W/ round black eyes %big & furry it goes Last Line: & it is looking at me %on its way down %down down %2 years old I am %& surely %surely it is so Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects CATERPILLAR, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I find among the poems of schiller Last Line: It's utterly speechless, songless, whistleless Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects CATERPILLAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I creep upon the ground, and the children Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects CATERPILLAR'S APOLOGY FOR EATING A FAVORITE GLADIOLUS, by CHARLES WILLIAM DALMON Poem Source First Line: Confuse me not with impious things Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects CATERPILLARS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of caterpillars fabre tells how day after day Last Line: In a heaving ring returning the same regrets. Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs CHIPPEWA MUSIC: THE SONG OF BUTTERFLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the coming heat Last Line: I stood there Subject(s): Butterflies;insects; Bugs CHRYSALIS DIARY, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: Novenber 13: %cold told me Last Line: I dreamt of flying Subject(s): Diaries; Insects CICADAS, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: Afternoon, mid-august Last Line: Joyful noise! Subject(s): Insects CIGARILLO, by CATE MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The visit of a body. Ants gathered sugar Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs CIGARILLO, by CATE MARVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The visit of a body. Ants gathered sugar Last Line: Sweet. The ants took to their path on the counter Subject(s): Ants; Insects CINQUAIN: CATERPILLAR, by KENNETH CHING Poem Text First Line: Hurry Last Line: Of wings. Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs CLASSIFICATION, by DEBORAH WARREN Poem Source First Line: A certain fritillary wont to flit Last Line: The ordering: danaus plexippus %cannot describe a single butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects CLEMATIS MONTANA, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flocks of itinerant stars, flung from night's Last Line: Pool of the soul's wide summer. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Stars; Summer; Bugs CLOCK-A-CLAY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the cowslip pips I lie / hidden from the buzzing fly Last Line: Watching for the time of day. Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Poetry & Poets; Bugs; Ladybugs COCOON, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The little caterpillar creeps Last Line: And that's the end of three good tries Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects CORN-GRINDING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "butterflies, butterflies" Last Line: "butterflies, away!" Subject(s): Butterflies;fields;insects; Pastures;meadows;leas;bugs CRAWLER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The spider crawls into the bible Last Line: Deep in the book of genesis Subject(s): Bible; Birth; Insects; Rest; Spiders CREEPS AND CRAWLS, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The insect world appealed to fabre Last Line: Someday, perhaps, my citronella %will rank with chamberlain's umbrella Subject(s): Insects CRICKETS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: You don't need tickets Last Line: And never will charge you a fee Subject(s): Insects CRICKETS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Hide in thickets Subject(s): Insects DA QUEENA BEE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Meester, eef you nevva see Last Line: Evra wan hersal' a queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Babies; Bees; Insects; Infants; Beekeeping; Bugs 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 DADDY LONGLEGS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: O daddy %daddy o Last Line: Those legs to grow? Subject(s): Insects DALEY'S DORG WATTLE, by W. T. GOODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can talk about yer sheep dorgs,' said the man from allan's creek Last Line: "that there dorg had got that inseck in the bottle." Alternate Author Name(s): Goodge, William Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Insects; Bugs DEAD BUTTERFLY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now I see its whiteness Last Line: Their rockgreen color and the bold %cut of its wings Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects DEATH IS LIKE THE INSECT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Tis the vermin's will Subject(s): Insects; Death; Trees DEFRAUDED I A BUTTERFLY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: The lawful heir of thee Variant Title(s): Poem: 730; Poem: 85 Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects DELIGHTS OF CAMP LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come to the home of the friendly mosquito Last Line: Come to where the centipedes crawl underneath Subject(s): Centipedes;insects;mosquitoes; Bugs DEPARTMENTAL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: An ant on the table cloth Last Line: But how thoroughly departmental Subject(s): Ants; Bureaucracy; Insects; Bugs DEPARTMENTAL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An ant on the table cloth Last Line: But how thoroughly departmental Subject(s): Ants; Bureaucracy; Insects DESIGN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found a dimpled spider, fat and white Last Line: If design govern in a thing so small. Subject(s): Death; Fate; God; Insects; Men; Nature; Spiders; Dead, The; Destiny; Bugs DIE LUAN HUA, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: The butterfly does not love the flowers, though the flowers love the butterfly Last Line: Did you have to leave for the suzhou moon? Subject(s): Absence; Butterflies; Insects DIGGER WASP, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: I will never see my children Last Line: They never saw Subject(s): Insects DISASTER, by MAY FAIR Poem Text First Line: A mossy knoll under a dogwood tree Last Line: And plodding on, knew not their writhing pain. Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs DISCLOSURE, by EDNA HOWE Poem Text First Line: The transient butterfly declares Last Line: And a diviner duty. Subject(s): Beauty; Butterflies; Insects; Bugs DISCOVERY, by DOROTHY SIGMUND Poem Text First Line: A caterpillar squirmed Last Line: And slowly slithered down. Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs DIVINE INSECT, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Already it's late summer Last Line: Begins his faint, thin note, so pure, so true, %putting me ever deeper in his debt Subject(s): Insects DOUBLED MIRRORS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is the dark of the moon Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Raccoons; Spiders; Bugs DOUBLED MIRRORS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is the dark of the moon Last Line: Across immeasurable distance Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Raccoons; Spiders DOWN IN THE HOLLOW, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source Last Line: I wonder if the ladybug %knew that I was there Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds DRAGONFLY, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: I am the dragon Last Line: Down on your knees! Subject(s): Insects DRIP - DRIP - WET AND MUDDY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Dream of sunny summer skies Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects DUSK SONG - THE BEETLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The shrilling locust slowly sheathes Last Line: The beattle booms adown the glooms %and bumps along the dusk Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beetles; Insects ELEGIAC SONNET: 77. TO THE INSECT OF THE GOSSAMER, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small, viewless aeronaut, that by the line Last Line: Ah! Soon at sorrow's touch the radiant dreams dissolve! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs ELEGY IN A SPIDER'S WEB, by LAURA RIDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What to say when the spider Last Line: What time the spider Alternate Author Name(s): Jackson, Laura Riding Subject(s): Insects; Spiders EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 16. CUPID HIMSELF STUNG, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Does a bee's sting thus make thee cry and whine? Last Line: Comes as much short as that compared to thee. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs EMMET, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The emmet is an ant (archaic) Last Line: Not so its ancestor, the emmet, %which perished crying 'zounds!' or 'demmit!' Subject(s): Ants; Insects ENVOI, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fly, white butterflies, out to sea Last Line: Fly! Variant Title(s): White Butterflies Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Roundels; Bugs ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: FOUR, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: The male satin bowerbird builds a woven platform ten feet square, Last Line: (stacked), red fruits, blue feathers, black and orange bracket fungi, %butterflies. Variant Title(s): The Monarchs: 38: Esasay On Intelligence: Fou Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects FABLE: THE BEE, THE ANT, AND THE SPARROW, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dears, 'tis said in days of old Last Line: The wicked, wanton sparrow died. Subject(s): Bees; Fables; Insects; Sparrows; Virtue; Beekeeping; Allegories; Bugs FABLES: 1ST SER. 24. THE BUTTERFLY AND THE SNAIL, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All upstarts, insolent in place Last Line: Shall prove of caterpillar breed. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Snails; Bugs FABLES: 1ST SER. 38. THE TURKEY AND THE ANT, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In other men we faults can spy Last Line: Nor for a breakfast nations kill. Subject(s): Ants; Food & Eating; Insects; Turkeys; Bugs FABLES: 2ND SER. 10. THE DEGENERATE BEES, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though courts the practice disallow Last Line: We're honour'd by the virtuous few. Subject(s): Bees; Corruption In Politics; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs FABLES: 2ND SER. 4. THE ANT IN OFFICE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You tell me that you apprehend Last Line: As due, to publick use restor'd. Subject(s): Ants; Corruption In Politics; Insects; Bugs FAIREST HOME I EVER KNEW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: A manse of mechlin and of floss Variant Title(s): Poem: 1423; Poem: 144 Subject(s): Insects; Spiders FALLING IN LOVE AT SIXTY-FIVE, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is like the first and last time I tried a coleman Last Line: To answer what was being insisted on Subject(s): Books; Insects; Maine (state); Night; Old Age; Love – Nature Of; Reading; Bugs; Bedtime FALLING IN LOVE AT SIXTY-FIVE, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is like the first and last time I tried a coleman Last Line: In answer to what was being insisted on Subject(s): Books; Insects; Maine (state); Night FANNY; OR, THE BEAUTY AND THE BEE, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fanny, array'd in the bloom of her beauty Last Line: "go forth and be happy—I blame you no more." Subject(s): Beauty; Bees; Forgiveness; Insects; Beekeeping; Clemency; Bugs FESSLER'S BEES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Talkin' bout yer bees,' says ike Last Line: "fore he went to floridy!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs FIELD WIRELESS, by BENJAMIN ALBERT BOTKIN Poem Text First Line: Firefly and cricket Last Line: When people grow sleepy. Subject(s): Insects; Bugs FIELDWORK, by BOB HICOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are two kinds of people and five hundred Last Line: The jealous eyes of god have seen? Subject(s): Amazons; Beetles; Insects; Jungles; Wilderness; Bugs FIELDWORK, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are two kinds of people and five hundred Last Line: A fraction and flutter of life not even %the jealous eyes of god have seen? Subject(s): Amazons; Beetles; Insects; Jungles; Wilderness FIREFLIES, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: Light - light Last Line: Fireflies - firefles Subject(s): Insects FIREFLY CITY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a long arrow through the dark the train is darting Last Line: The fire-fly city of the dark is lost in empty air! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Fireflies; Insects; Glowworms; Bugs FLOODGATE, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low, when the western flock is folded Last Line: And the owl begins his flight. Subject(s): Birds; Floods; Insects; Owls; Bugs FLYCATCHER, by BRENT PALLAS Poem Source First Line: Collector of the cool pebble Last Line: It was evening with no one to talk to %about beetles Subject(s): Flycatchers; Insects FLYING BLOSSOMS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: These butterflies, in twos and threes Last Line: Another crop of golden corn! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Wings; Bugs FLYING CROOKED, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterly, the cabbage-white Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs FLYING CROOKED, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The butterly, the cabbage-white Last Line: Even the arobatic swift %has not his flying-crooked gift Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects FLYING FLOWER, by ARAKIDA MORITAKE Poem Source First Line: Fallen flower I see Last Line: Ah! A butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects FOR A DESIGN OF A BUTTERFLY RESTING ON A SKULL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Creature of air and light Last Line: Thy hope calls heavenward from yon ruined cell. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs FORGIVEN, by ALAN ALEXANDER MILNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name Last Line: An excited alexander you've mistaken for a match Alternate Author Name(s): Milne, A. A. Subject(s): Beetles; Insects FORTH, MY GALLANT HONEY-BEES!, by LUDVIG HOLSTEIN Poem Source Subject(s): Bees; Insects FRAM 1403: BLACK WIDOW SPIDER, by BILL GARTEN Poem Source First Line: Latrodectus mactans Last Line: Thing for the hubby you ate last year? Subject(s): Insects; Spiders FRUIT TREE, by ZSOFIA BALLA Poem Source First Line: We urge on the fruit tree every spring Last Line: That butterfly's death - caterpillar -behold! Has given birth Subject(s): Butterflies; Fruit; Insects; Trees FUSCARA; OR, THE BEE ERRANT, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature's confectioner, the bee Last Line: The bee committed parricide. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs FUZZY WUZZY, CREEPY CRAWLY, by LILLIAN SCHULZ VANADA Poem Source Last Line: You were once a caterpillar, %wiggly, wiggly fellow Subject(s): Butterflies; Caterpillars; Insects GEORGICS: BEES, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the mute creation, these alone Last Line: And poise their bodies thro' the void of air Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Bees; Insects GIANT WATER BUG, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: The giant water bug can lug Last Line: Or gift for father's day? Subject(s): Insects GOLDEN GLORIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The buttercup is like a golden cup Last Line: Sucks from sweet hearts of flowers and stores and sips. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs GOLDEN WASP, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blindworm that legless lizard flows along the porch step Last Line: The dark bat has left my face and is scissoring around in summer's bright space Subject(s): Insects; Bats GOUT AND WINGS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pigeons fluttered fieldward, one and all Last Line: A wing was open'd at me everywhere! Subject(s): Birds; Flight; Gout; Insects; Wings; Flying; Bugs GRANDMOTHER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A spider floats from the apple tree Last Line: Had proved to be there at all. Subject(s): Comfort; Ghosts; Grandparents; Insects; Spiders; Supernatural; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Bugs GRASSHOPPER, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Can't stop her Subject(s): Insects GRASSHOPPERS, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: Sap's rising Last Line: Grasshoppers Subject(s): Insects HAIKU, by J. W. HACKETT Poem Source First Line: An old spider web Last Line: Sagging full of seeds Subject(s): Insects; Spiders HAIKU, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even with insects Last Line: Some can't Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Insects HAIKU, by MATSUMOTO TAKASHI Poem Source First Line: On an onion tuft Last Line: Lonely, sad Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects HAIKU, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bee Last Line: Of the peony Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Bees; Insects HAPPY WORLD, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bee is a rover Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry Variant Title(s): Brown Be Subject(s): Bees; Insects HELIODORA, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why dost thou touch, o flower-fed bee Last Line: I knew it long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs HELL OF INSECTS, by COLIN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: At first, his parents could not have been more pleased by his Last Line: His father must have heard something else, for he backed away Subject(s): Insects; Parents HEY,' SAYS THE FLY, 'YOU'RE AN ODD LITTLE GUY, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: You once were a maggot yourself, you old fake!' Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects HIVES AND HOMES, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When march has gone with his cruel wind Last Line: When the summer of life is over. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs HOKKU, by WINIFRED WALDRON Poem Text First Line: Bringer of pollen Last Line: Love is my duty. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs HOME AT NIGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When chirping crickets fainter cry Last Line: Are lifted -- and the lips of kate. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Home; Insects; Night; Bugs; Bedtime HOMELESS COMPLEYNT, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon me buddy, I didn't mean to bug you Last Line: Wiping your windshield with a dirty rag Subject(s): Homeless; Insects; Veterans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Bugs HOMELESS COMPLEYNT, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon me buddy, I didn't mean to bug you Last Line: Wiping your windshield with a dirty rag Subject(s): Homeless; Insects HOMO SAPIENS, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Slightly lower than the arachnid Last Line: Sow the ears with finer lines than silk. Subject(s): Insects; Mankind; Spiders HONEY, by RUTH MILLER Poem Source First Line: The helicopter bee fines down Subject(s): Bees; Insects HONEY BEE, HONEY BEE! HERE IS SOME MONEY, by LUCY FITCH PERKINS Poem Source Subject(s): Bees; Insects HONEY HARVEST, by MARTIN DONISTHORPE ARMSTRONG Poem Source First Line: Late in march, when the days are growing longer Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects HONEYBEE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You do everything, melissa, just the way Last Line: For money you have a sharp sting Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Love - Complaints; Pentastichs HONEYBEES, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: Being a bee Last Line: Best %of all lives Subject(s): Insects HONEYCOMB, by N. M. BENNETT Poem Text First Line: Within unnumbered, fragile cells the bee Last Line: I taste -- and I am satisfied awhile. Subject(s): Insects; Bugs HOOFER, by A. K. REDWING Poem Source First Line: Passing like a strauss waltz Last Line: In time to a much higher music Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects HORNET, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: A hornet's born with yellow rings Last Line: Pudding from your picnic table Subject(s): Insects HORNETS, by JAMES MCCORKLE Poem Source First Line: Stunned in the cold morning by the brush Last Line: And swarm the lamp till it went dark Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Life HOUSE CRICKETS, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: We don't live in meadows Last Line: Britght blue %pilot light Subject(s): Insects HOUSEFLY, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: They seldom part %at your request Subject(s): Insects HUM-BUGS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some bugs will sting and bite, and some Last Line: The bug that hums and does not bite. Subject(s): Insects; Bugs HYMN TO AURORA, by JULIO FLOREZ Poem Text First Line: Thou heavenly butterfly / whose great and tenuous wings Last Line: To ashes day shall burn! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs I CAN LIFT GRAVITY'S STERN GLOWER, by LIBBY HOUSTON Poem Source Last Line: Now if I spin much more you'll guess me quick Subject(s): Insects; Riddles; Spiders I SAW A BLACK BUTTERFLY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Maybe it was an owl Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature I TRIED TO TAKE MY SKIN OFF, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: So now it just... %hangs there... %staring at... %me Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects I'D BE A BUTTERFLY, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd be a butterfly born in a bower Last Line: Dying when fair things are fading away Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs I'M WAITING, WAITING, WAITING, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: One spider down the hatch Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects IMAGINING THE BEES, by PATRICK BIZZARO Poem Source First Line: I have never held anything Last Line: The net of my smile %nd my wooden eyelids %learn how to dance Subject(s): Bees; Insects IMMANENT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The drone of war-plane neared,and dimmed away Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Ants; Insects IN GATINAIS: REPOSE AT NOON, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Bee, that the thyme doth sing, how clear thy hum doth ring in the Last Line: Ear! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Life; Noon; Beekeeping; Bugs IN TALL GRASS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bees and a honeycomb in the dried head of a horse in Last Line: The bees come home and the bees sleep. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs INAMORATA, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bees were holding levees in the flowers Last Line: And keep me happy in your pious prayer. Subject(s): April; Bees; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs INCHWORM, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: I inch, I arch Last Line: And never pick up speeding tickets Subject(s): Insects INCHWORMS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: One inch per pinch Subject(s): Insects INFESTATION, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even insects have histories Last Line: Upon which they take their evening meal Subject(s): Insects; Exterminating & Exterminators; Bugs INFESTATION, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even insects have histories Last Line: Upon which they take their evening meal Subject(s): Insects INSECT CRIES, by YI CHANGHUI Poem Source First Line: The insect chirring every night Last Line: My heart is drawn to the insect %chirring nightly under the floor Subject(s): Insects INSECT DEDICATIONS, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: For issa %junebugs- Last Line: Or stay here %with the dragonflies? Subject(s): Insects INSECT HEADS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These insects, golden Last Line: Hold sand paintings of the next life Subject(s): Insects; Bugs INSECT HEADS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These insects, golden Subject(s): Insects INSECT LIFE OF FLORIDA, by LYNDA HULL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In those days I thought their endless thrum Last Line: And dangerous as the human heart Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Florida; Family Life; Insects; Animals; Relatives; Bugs INSECT STUDY, by LIA PURPURA Poem Source First Line: If a tarantula is dropped, it shatters like a crystal candlestick Last Line: Circa 1890, well-combed and pomaded, %so familiar, so unkillable Subject(s): Insects INSECTS, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Insects, why cry? Last Line: That way Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Death; Insects INSECTS AT NIGHT, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Why this trembling at the cicada's tremolo Last Line: By link: enchaining toward some infinite Subject(s): Insects; Night INSPIRATION, by ABBOTTE MCKINNON DOWNING Poem Text First Line: Lovely butterfly! / you're like a fleeting Last Line: Carefree and gay -- for one short span. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs INTRUSIONS AND A LITTLE PHILOSOPHY, by JANE M. MCCLELLAN Poem Source First Line: Again this morning %the kitchen floor is sprinkled with dead ants Last Line: The only graceful life: a struggle %before the giving in Subject(s): Death; Insects INVITATION TO THE BEE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of patient industry Last Line: Among the flowers, thou little busy bee. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs IO MOTH, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source Last Line: Like garter snakes %and science teachers Subject(s): Insects JULIUS CAESAR AND THE HONEY-BEE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poring on caesar's death with earnest eye Last Line: I might have set the honey-maker free. Subject(s): Bees; Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs JUNE BUG, by EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH Poem Source First Line: Bug like a coffee-bean Last Line: Into a pool of ink Subject(s): Insects JUNE BUGS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Like bomber pilots %flying blind Subject(s): Insects KATYDIDS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Or did she didn't? Subject(s): Insects KILLING THE ANTS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Flies are shooed from my house, spiders coaxed Last Line: Acid drifts like an acrid perfume Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Judgments; Trials KILLING THE BEES, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They'd been there for years, secreted in the ceiling Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs KINDNESS TO INSECTS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a melancholy wasp Last Line: Upon a purple clover knosp. Subject(s): Insects; Rhyme; Bugs KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out from jerusalem Last Line: "than flatteries of the great." Subject(s): Ants; Bible; Insects; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Bugs; Theology KING SOLOMON AND THE BEES; A TALE OF THE TALMUD, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When solomon was reigning in his glory Last Line: As israel's king learned wisdom from the bees! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Jews; Sheba, Queen Of (10th Century B.c.); Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Beekeeping; Bugs; Judaism KITTY CAUGHT A CATERPILLAR, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bee caught her instead Last Line: The bee caught her instead Subject(s): Insects KOROSTA KATZINA SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Yellow butterflies / over the blossoming virgin corn Last Line: All day shall come the rushing rain Subject(s): Butterflies;corn;fields;harvest;insects; Pastures;meadows;leas;bugs LADYBUG, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON Poem Source First Line: Someday when you are down and feeling dour Last Line: All the while, down below, we trained and trained %the little horse Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Insects LAW, by MOLLY MCQUADE Poem Source First Line: Caterpillars lurch Last Line: Of impossible tree, %holding ground Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects LEAFHOPPER SITS, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: You think that's a cucumber vine - %but it's not Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects LICE, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: In your hair, %those lousy louses Subject(s): Insects LINES ON A GRASSHOPPER (BY A GRANGER NATURALIST), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I've got him, at last, in the focus" Last Line: Whenever he lit at their gate Subject(s): Grasshoppers;insects;nature; Bugs LINES TO A LADY-BIRD, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cow-lady, or sweet lady-bird Last Line: I bid thee hail, bright lady-bird! Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Bugs; Ladybugs LIVING WITH LIMITS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The giant water bug of the southern united states Last Line: Have more limited powers Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; Insects; Sex LOCUST POCUS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: And do provoke us Subject(s): Insects LOCUSTS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Hocus-pocus %we are locusts Last Line: Each time we pass Subject(s): Insects LOOK AT A BEE, by LEA GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: On a lit-up window square Last Line: Fear kills. %watch out Subject(s): Bees; Insects LYCOSA, THE SPIDER, by ANNIE CHARLOTTE DALTON Poem Text First Line: Hannah, offering her first-born Last Line: For lord or sun? Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs MAGGOTS, by ERNEST WICHNER Poem Source First Line: There is a skull here under twigs Last Line: After leaf and on bobbing twigs Subject(s): Insects MAGNIFYING GLASS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With this round glass Last Line: Twould seem you'd walk there %in an afternoon! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Insects; Spiders MAMA PITTER-PATTER PEDE HAD HALF A HUNDRED LEGS, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: And one that wibble-wobbled into bummer beetle's mouth Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects MAMA, HEY MAMA BUG, LOOK OVERHEAD!, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: For you, bugaboo. For you.' Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects MANTIS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Her bug gourmet %a prayer away Subject(s): Insects MARCO POLO, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was heroic, fugitive, in love with the machinery Last Line: Devoured by the oriental machinery of the silkworm Subject(s): Explorers; Insects; Money; Polo, Marco (1254-1324); Sea; Skeletons; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Bugs; Ocean MARIA'S PURSE, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maria had an aunt at leeds Last Line: "admit the insects' greater skill!" Subject(s): Bees; Girls; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs MARIPOSA, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Sometimes the day Last Line: Where I used to see her eyes Subject(s): Butterflies; Hearts; Insects; Love MARIPOSA, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Butterflies are white and blue Last Line: Death comes in a day or two. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Butterflies; Carpe Diem; Death; Insects; Dead, The; Bugs MAYFLIES, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: Your moment Last Line: Back when we were %young Subject(s): Insects MAYFLIES, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Be gone by night Subject(s): Insects MAYFLY, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: A mayfly flies %in may or june Last Line: Hello %good-bye %good-bye Subject(s): Insects MERRY BEE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A golden bee a-cometh Subject(s): Bees; Insects MIDGES IN THE SUNSHINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If I could see with a midge's eye Last Line: "as that larger midge, a man!" Subject(s): Insects; Bugs MILLIPEDE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oi! Oi! Noli me tangere, no argument Last Line: Poor millipede - he must have been a he - %to catch the eye of the real housekeeper Subject(s): Insects MINIMAL, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I study the lives on a leaf; the little Last Line: Cleaning and caressing, %creeping and healing Subject(s): Insects MINISTERING BEES, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think you this topaz powder on the bee Last Line: Not merely honey drunken debauchees! Subject(s): Bees; Drinks & Drinking; Insects; Sex; Beekeeping; Wine; Bugs MOMENT, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two small white butterflies settle Last Line: In tune with things, staining the day Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs MOMENT, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two small white butterflies settle Last Line: In tune with things, staining the day Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCH BUTTERFLIES, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: During the usual dinner table argument Last Line: Loud hard talk during supper, %nothing to dislodge those fragile wings Subject(s): Butterflies; Dinners And Dining; Family Life; Insects MONARCH BUTTERFLY, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: He is a monarch %he is a king Last Line: Swallows that swallow him %frequently puke Subject(s): Insects MONARCHS: 1, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: They hang in santa cruz by the hundreds of thousands Last Line: The event is sufficiently rehearsed in the nerves Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 10, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: I love the way attention %becomes a magnet. My cousin writes Last Line: From scratch how to stay alive Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 11, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: After winter rain the eucalyptus Last Line: Limboed out in liquid nitrogen Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 12, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Nature was the object of my contemplation Last Line: Dense and porous as a luffa, %where 'I' take place? Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 13, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Given, a speck of magnetite %(ferrous oxide) is Last Line: The sympathy between iron %and the axis of the world Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 14, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: What did we want to see, %our faces pressed to glass Last Line: To see them do it, appetites %meeting in the neurologic sea Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 15, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Nature doesn't interest me,' said Last Line: With mind, with our minds. This will be paradise Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 16, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Let's say that the orchid %created Last Line: Our species has caused by calling %such misunderstandings love Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 17: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: ONE, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: The female digger wasp %maintains several burrows Last Line: Without realizing it needs no food Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: On Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 18, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: In mexico where the eastern monarchs Last Line: So clear in their direction Variant Title(s): Sanctuar Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature MONARCHS: 19, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: One summer I hiked from swallowtail light, a lazy morning photographing Last Line: Returning to the world again, concluding that without alienation there would be no consciousness Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 2, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: What does intelligence have to do with Last Line: On a street full of strangers to have his way Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 20, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: I remember the line from some classic Last Line: The rocks on which they'd grown Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 21, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: I'm writing from the botanic garden at the tilden park Last Line: Effortless and slo, their movement visible only in the form Variant Title(s): Tilden Par Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 22, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Redwoods. At night they take %the headlights without blinking Last Line: Their angel cells catch and release the light Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 23, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Sassafras and acrid leaf smell Last Line: I turn around and walk back to town Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 24: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: TWO, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Language has been the central %event in human evolution Last Line: Wants to act and the newer part %insists on imagining action Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: Tw Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 25, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: I dream I run a prison from which everyone escapes Last Line: I dream and the dream falls like ash into the day Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 26, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: A caterpillar spits out a sac of silk Last Line: And the butterfly has mastered flight Variant Title(s): Genetic Sequenc Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 27, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: I dream an infant falls %from the upper story Last Line: Brings out brandy, and %launches an all-night bash Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 28: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: THREE, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: After many years of language training Last Line: Often chewing and swallowing %the tool as if it were food Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: Thre Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 29, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: To what do I return %again in solitude Last Line: Where I sat beside the fire %that kept me warm Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 3, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Bypassing santa cruz %I descended toward monterey bay, a bedazzled traveler Last Line: Spirits in the luminous air Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 30, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: In one version of the postapocalyptic %planet, the weeping replicant Last Line: What she is or is not, because she loves him Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 31, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: On the first few nights I spent in scotland Last Line: My fire-grate each night. 'there, is it...?' Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 32, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Women alone %suffer two kinds of rigidity, the popular kind Last Line: Into a lover's lips, there's not %a woman's life she envies Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 33, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Butterflies rise in courtship, %a spiraling vertical dance Last Line: Their copulation is violent %and followed immediately by flight Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 34, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Stood in line to see the crown jewels Last Line: Debunking culture. The only monarch we %admire is a fragile, migratory bug Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 35, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Inasmuch as %the monarch butterflies Last Line: Funds to purchase land on which the butterflies spend the winter Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 36, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: At breakfast in the castle someone %reads aloud from the morning paper Last Line: Nor lies awake at night worrying %what kind of animal she should be Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 37, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: The face was shallow, sad, dusty %and sincere. He did not speak Last Line: So intense I expected to find %the carpet dusted with ash Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 39, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Weeds in the turrets of the fallen tower Last Line: Which are the chosen ones and which must die Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 4, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: On september 20, 1892, vast swarms Last Line: Toward their mexican sanctuary Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 41, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Butterfly and insect world %is a tawdry place Last Line: Giggling, and keeps on running, %as if he were one of their kind Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 42, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Glistening billows of broad-leafed green Last Line: By one incapable of telling lies Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 43, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Butterflies rise in courtship, but Last Line: He wounded self to draw a border %he would never cross Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 44, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Night. A woman betrayed Last Line: It could simply %have what it wants Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 45, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: When she asks did it happen, %he says no no of course not Last Line: He is innocent everything %justified by love Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 46: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: SIX, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Inasmuch as awareness is a process Last Line: Could help us save the wild: eat this in remembrance of me Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: Si Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 47, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: What he never understood %was that his lying Last Line: In her place, in hers and hers Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 48, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: I read about dido in high school %but then I was too worried Last Line: How to marry the city and the hearth Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 49, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: And in the miners' graveyard %so many stones cut with Last Line: From across the endless sea Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 5, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Today the news is of monkeys, %skulls opened to expose Last Line: Parents, children, cousins, and herself Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 50, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: I spent hours each day walking Last Line: Its trilling ritual %the warning I had come too close Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 51, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: But did I walk where he walked Last Line: Himself a caveman, one who was %tribally wise without being part of a tribe Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 52: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: SEVEN, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: The broken-wing display of a plover Last Line: Sailing them across rivers %using their tails as rudders Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: Seve Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 53, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: A favorite terror, one we practive Last Line: That even you aren't what you seem Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 54, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: What I wanted was guidance %a system in telemetry Last Line: Knowing nothing human %could be that sure Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 56, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Following the plume %of a dying campfire Last Line: Sufficient, I thought, %the work of this day Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 57, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: My firend draws an x- and y- axis %on my cocktail mapkin, trying Last Line: Of motion, so much he remembered Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 58, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Sleep, monarchs, rising and falling Last Line: Awakening in me soundings of the past %that name the future Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 59, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: I'll hold you booth in my heart' %I tell my friend, after hearing Last Line: The hand of death. Then he departs, %and I wake up, nearly well again Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 6, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: In the fifties version of invasion of the body snatchers Last Line: As the scientist's own lover goes mechanical in his arms Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 60, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: A mother who became an amateur lepidopterist Last Line: All the woman could know was that it rose Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 7, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Maybe the a.I. Guys are right. We're Last Line: Just help us to keep going. %the credits roll Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 8, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Two ducks flying against a smoky sky Last Line: A thing that will inflict no harm Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: 9, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: It must be their waking time %wings open to the sun Last Line: Minds that blooming fields await them Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MONARCHS: ESSAY ON INTELLIGENCE: FIVE, by ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING Poem Source First Line: Unfold the cortex and lay it %on the table -- it's thin and smooth Last Line: In a language I can't read, but must believe Variant Title(s): Essay On Intelligence: Fiv Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects MORNING HARVEST, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pennsylvania spiders / not only stretch their silk between the limbs Subject(s): Civilization; Insects; Pennsylvania; Spiders; Bugs MORNING HARVEST, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pennsylvania spiders %not only stretch their silk between the limbs Last Line: Bringing language and mathematics and religion into darkness Subject(s): Civilization; Insects; Pennsylvania; Spiders MOSQUITOES, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Mosquitoes are thin Last Line: For take-out food Subject(s): Insects MOSQUITOES, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: With straws for tongues! Subject(s): Insects MOSS, RUST, AND MOTHS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Moss rises from the ground Last Line: And stare %and stare at the city lights Subject(s): Insects; Moths; Nature; Wings MOTH, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A larval tunneling between pages Last Line: The hunger, the gray dream of with, and, the Subject(s): Insects; Moths; Wings MOTH CHORALE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In switzerland, just one half-timbered floor Last Line: And I'm supposed to concentrate? Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Insects; Moths MOTH'S SERENADE, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: Porch %light Last Line: For light! Subject(s): Insects MOTHS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Not disarming, %but disrobing Subject(s): Insects MR. EDWARDS AND THE SPIDER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the spiders marching through the air Subject(s): Calvinists; Death; Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); God; Insects; Sin; Spiders; Dead, The; Bugs MR. EDWARDS AND THE SPIDER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the spiders marching through the air Last Line: To die and know it. This is the black widow, death Subject(s): Calvinists; Death; Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); God; Insects; Sin; Spiders MUIOPOTMOS, OR THE FATE OF THE BUTTERFLIE, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of deadly dolorous debate Last Line: His bodie left the spectacle of care. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Butterflies; Fables; Insects; Mythology; Allegories; Bugs MUSICAL CHAIRS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chairs were set up on the hillside Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Chairs; Games; Insects; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Bugs MY ABHORRENT FASCINATION, by JOYCE ODAM Poem Source First Line: Handsome spider Last Line: Hides behind %picasso now Subject(s): Insects; Spiders MY BUG AMOS, by VIRGINIA ELLIS Poem Text First Line: I done it - I killed 'im Last Line: My fingers . . . 'at amos 'us in my hand? Subject(s): Insects; Bugs MY BUTTERFLY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thine emulous fond flowers are dead, too Last Line: Under the eaves. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs MY BUTTERFLY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: As the butterfly held in the mesh of the net Last Line: Which lies in the depth of a kiss! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs MY PET SPIDER, by INGRID MOE MILLER Poem Source First Line: Dead twenty-four years, I think Subject(s): Insects; Spiders MYTH, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Young theseus makes a mission of his doom Last Line: Where ariadne holds %her cobwebs, ill-advised Subject(s): Insects; Mythology; Spiders NAKED SEA BUTTERFLIES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like you, I don't know what they are Last Line: Poetic dazzle of their name Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Science NAMELESS ONE, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hot in june a narrow winged Last Line: Over rips and tears and %thin places Subject(s): Insects NATURE, FOR NATURE'S SAKE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White as white butterflies that each one dons Last Line: Without your father falleth to the ground.' Subject(s): Butterflies; God; Insects; Life; Nature; Bugs NEITHER NOW, by MOLLY TENENBAUM Poem Source First Line: All summer I lived in the bees' house Last Line: A dried petal %in my multiform eye? Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Summer NEW SPRING: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With the rose the butterfly's deep in love Last Line: The star of eve and butterfly. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs NIGHT CRAWLER, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last automobile of night passes. I exit, drop to knees on a wet blan Subject(s): Insects; Night; Bugs; Bedtime NIGHT CRAWLER, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The last automobile of night passes. I exit, drop to knees on a wet blan Last Line: Suffer wet indignities of dirt for a handful of them Subject(s): Insects; Night NO GO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said a simpering butterfly, sipping a rose Last Line: Quoth the impudent chap. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Spiders; Bugs NOT SUDDEN LIKE THE BEETLE, by GWYN MCVAY Poem Source First Line: The women in my family take a long time -- learning to call crows Last Line: Beetle's gilt legs, the ribs in her shell -- but forget that she can fly Subject(s): Insects; Women NURSERY RHYMES FOR THE TENDER-HEARTED (DEDICATED TO DON MARQUIS): 4, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a black beetle, who lived down a drain Last Line: And he'll never come bathing with me any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Beetles; Insects; Marquis, Don (1878-1937); Bugs NURSERY SNAIL, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: The garden snail, %moist in its bed Last Line: Capture-soft %hand of you Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Nature; Snails ODE TO A BUTTERFLY, by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou spark of life that wavest wings of gold Last Line: Symbol of life, me with such faith endow! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Transcendentalism; Bugs ODE TO THE BEE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Herds, blythsome tune your canty reeds Last Line: That lyart time can ne'er impair. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Praise; Beekeeping; Bugs OF A SPIDER, by WILFRID CHARLES THORLEY Poem Source First Line: The spider weaves his silver wire Last Line: Between the rose-bud and the cherry Subject(s): Insects; Spiders OF THE BOY AND THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN BUNYAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Behold how eager this our little boy Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects ON DISCOVERING A BUTTERFLY, by VLADIMIR NABOKOV Poem Source First Line: I found it in a legendary hand Last Line: Red label on a little butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects ON THE DEATH OF LITTLE MAHALA ASHCRAFT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little haly! Little haly!' cheeps the robin the tree Last Line: "and the katydids and crickets hollers ""haly!"" all the night." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bees; Birds; Death; Grief; Insects; Night; Beekeeping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bugs; Bedtime ONCE UPON A GARDEN ROTTEN, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: Wait for spring. Go back to sleep Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects ONLY MY OPINION, by MONICA SHANNON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is a caterpillar ticklish? Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs ONLY MY OPINION, by MONICA SHANNON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is a caterpillar ticklish? Last Line: That he giggles, as he wiggles %across a hairy leaf Subject(s): Animals; Caterpillars; Insects ORIENT, by ARMANDE ALICE FAIR Poem Text First Line: White butterflies flitting across the face Last Line: In a gauze of opal lure. Subject(s): Asia; Butterflies; Insects; Moon; Stars; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Bugs ORPHIC SOUL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As I walk slowly along Last Line: Kept secret even from myself Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Self; Soul OUR PLAN FOR BEES, by KEVIN CANTWELL Poem Source First Line: Clouds tumbling in the wide glass picture window Last Line: Spark from the chimney's rushing heat above us Subject(s): Bees; Insects PAPA, O PAPA BUG, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?', by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It's gummy, it's yummy, it's dung! What a treat.' Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects PATIENCE OF THE SPIDER'S WEB, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Is not distubed by dew Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Patience; Spiders PEDIGREE OF HONEY (DIFF. VERS.), by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A clover, any time, to him %is aristocracy Variant Title(s): Poem: 1627 (2); Poem: 165 Subject(s): Bees; Insects PERPETUAL MOTION, by JORGE GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: Two white butterflies %chasing one another Last Line: Two routes %two raptures Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects PIERCED, SELS., by HANS FAVEREY Poem Source First Line: What it is all about, %I repeat, is Last Line: Started to feel ashamed of myself Subject(s): Insects; Spiders PLANE GEOMETER, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A water strider skates upon the brook Last Line: By aberration of the drowsy heat, %to box the crazy compass of bad dreams Subject(s): Insects PLASTIC BEATITUDE, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our neighbors, the pazzotis, live in a long Last Line: To their last temptation. Subject(s): Blessings; Electricity; Extermination & Exterminators; Family Life; Insects; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Neighbors; Toys; Women In The Bible; Relatives; Bugs; Virgin Mary PODAGER BEGS PARDON OF BIRDS, BEES, AND WINGS IN GENERAL, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon me, all ye birds that float at ease Last Line: A chiding angel, of the smallest wing. Subject(s): Angels; Bees; Birds; Flight; Insects; Wings; Beekeeping; Flying; Bugs POEM FOR THE INSECTS IN FALL, by WILLIAM JOSEPH MEISSNER Poem Source First Line: I have seen them Last Line: Their tiny opaque brushstrokes coating the windshield %like first frost Subject(s): Autumn; Insects; Seasons POETIC EPIGRAMS: 8. KINDRED, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly and flower Last Line: By earth in the same hour. Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Bugs POPPING HOT PEPPERS - IT'S SIXTY DEGREES!, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: Great galloping grubs, get a whiff of that breeze! Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects POTATO BUG, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rumors of it kept my doors sealed Last Line: Nina de la tierra: child of the earth, %as we all can't help but be Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Mosquitoes; Wings PRAGMATICS, by PAULANN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: In your story of bees Last Line: A fine, even tremble Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Nature PRAYING MANTIS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Upon a twig %I sit and pray Last Line: I swallow them %religiously Subject(s): Insects PROBLEM WITH POETRY, by MARTIN ARNOLD Poem Source Last Line: In silence could only have been %because of greed Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Self PSYCHE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly the ancient grecians made Last Line: And to deform and kill the things whereon we feed. Variant Title(s): The Butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs QUEST, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Over crimson clover-seas Last Line: Such a golden story of honey! Subject(s): Bees; Insects REQUIEM, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: Carolina sphinx moths Last Line: Killing frost Subject(s): Insects REQUIEM OF THE BUTTERFLY, by GONZALO ROJAS Poem Source First Line: Dirty was the day of the dead butterfly Last Line: In the luxury of so much beauty, tell us how %or, at least, when Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects RESIGNATION, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'd hate to be a centipede (of legs I've only two) Last Line: Content am I to live and die, just -- ordinary man Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Insects RIDDLE, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: The little chief from the north Last Line: Where I go to is good Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Riddles ROACHES, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: They go bare-feeted Subject(s): Insects ROOTS AND BRANCHES, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sail, monarchs, rising and falling Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs ROOTS AND BRANCHES, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sail, monarchs, rising and falling Last Line: Awakening transports of an inner view of things Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects RUTABAGAS, RED POTATOES, CABBAGES, AND BEANS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Then listen to the dripping as you sleep, sleep, sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects SAMSON, by RICK BURSKY Poem Source First Line: Whoever said a butterfly couldn't be trained Last Line: And I did. Love creates obedience Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Love; Obedience SCARABAEUS SISYPHUS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've watched thee, scarab! Yea, an hour in vain Last Line: Life's stone, recoiling from the alps of time? Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Beetles; Insects; Sisyphus; Bugs SCUFFLED DUST, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lean white birches of the moon Last Line: What came after I do not know. Subject(s): Apple Blossoms; Apples; Fruit; Insects; Spiders; Virtue; Bugs SEA AND THE BUTTERFLY, by KIM KIRIM Poem Source First Line: Since no one has ever told her Last Line: And the pale moon chills the thin waist %of the sad butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects SECOND LIFE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After life's departing sigh Last Line: Come and catch that butterfly!' Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Insects; Reincarnation; Dead, The; Bugs; Transmigration; Pretas SECRET (2), by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A fuzzy fellow without feet Last Line: To tell the pretty secret %of the butterfly! Variant Title(s): Poem: 173; Poem: 17 Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects SECRET HISTORY OF ROCK'N'ROLL, by ROBERT J. CLAWSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Instead of settling the bole Last Line: He told the bees ... But no one else Subject(s): Bees; Insects SECRET LIFE OF BUTTERFLIES, by EDMUND CONTI Poem Source First Line: The butterfly Last Line: I'd rather be phyllis diller %than a caterpillar.' Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects SEEING A BUTTERFLY ON AN AUTUMN DAY, by ZHU ZHONGXIAN Poem Source First Line: Vast river, falling leaves, eagles' sorrowful cries Last Line: Flits toward a cold twig in this autumn scene Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects SEMBLANCE: SCREENS, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A moth lies open and lies Subject(s): Insects; Bugs SEPTEMBER BUTTERFLY, by MOLLIE BORING Poem Source First Line: On the %dashboard in my car Last Line: Stretched across %the bay Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects SEX LIFE OF INSECTS, by DOUG FLAHERTY Poem Source First Line: For you I'd become a nymph Last Line: My antennae will be twitching the stars Subject(s): Insects; Sex SHANGHAI INSECT MARKET, by CLYDE EDGAR KEELER Poem Text First Line: Over there let us stop / at the insect mart Last Line: A hollow ball to house two great green katydids. Subject(s): Insects; Bugs SHARD, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the ravages that took the bees by storm Variant Title(s): Last Drop Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs SIGNS OF SPRING, by THERESA S. YORK Poem Text First Line: When the nearest hills choose pastel green Last Line: It's spring. Subject(s): Insects; Spring; Bugs SILKWORMS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Trapeze artists %overhead Subject(s): Insects SILKWORMS AND SPIDERS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The worm long fosters his transforming sleep Last Line: And we must rest, till god shall tell us more. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Worms; Bugs SILVERFISH, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: I am used to this house that keeps its mouth shut Last Line: I avert my eyes and proceed Subject(s): Insects SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 105, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does the bee do? Last Line: Eat up the honey. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): What Do They Do? Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 39, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brown and furry Last Line: To live again a butterfly. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Caterpillar Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs SINGING DEATH, by CHARLES R. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: Brown, brown, brown, brown, gold Last Line: Singing death.) Subject(s): Insects; Bugs SINGING INSECTS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Semi - singing insects - boys catch in june Last Line: And as the caged insects sing. Subject(s): Insects; Marriage; Bugs; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SINGLE CLOVER PLANK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: Did not so much as wring from him %a wandering 'alas' Variant Title(s): Poem: 1343; Poem: 129 Subject(s): Bees; Insects SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA ANNOUNCES THE WINNING PROJECT ... INSECTS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bug for every ailment, so Last Line: Oh, the big fat candle of desire, %breathless, oh, wild ride, %the knobbed gearshift of love Subject(s): Insects SNARES, by FLORENCE GRAUEL MILLER Poem Text First Line: I watched a spider weave his web Last Line: Came flying to his lair. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Trapping; Bugs SOLOMON AND THE ANTS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the kings of fallen earth Last Line: The strongest of the strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Bugs SONG, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterflies that are the snow's own hue Last Line: O blossom of my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Butterflies; Desire; Flight; Insects; Love; Flying; Bugs SONG FOR THE CUCUYO, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caught them at sundown in the tall grass Variant Title(s): Song To The Cucuyo Subject(s): Insects; Singing & Singers; Bugs SONG FOR THE CUCUYO, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Caught them at sundown in the tall grass Last Line: From havana to tallahassee, to light %the children's way home Variant Title(s): Song To The Cucuy Subject(s): Insects; Singing And Singers SONG OF THE QUEEN BEE, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the air is wine and the wind is free Last Line: That I'll always mate %with whatever drone I encounter Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Artificial Insemination; Bees; Insects; Reproduction SONNET TO A BUTTERFLY, by HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forth to thy bright existence of an hour Last Line: Never to sorrow more, nor doubt, nor die? Alternate Author Name(s): Forester, Frank Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs SONNET TO THE JUNEBUG, I, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You make me je's a little nervouser Last Line: Up that eternal buzzin' serenade! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Insects; Bugs SPEW, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere out toward the tip of the downswinging Last Line: And an occasional chicken snake Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Insects SPHINX-MOTH AND DADDY LONGLEGS, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening when dark is settling down Last Line: Man, the seeker, seeks himself Subject(s): Animals; Flowers; Forests; Hummingbirds; Insects; Moths SPIDER, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN Poem Source First Line: With six small diamonds for his eyes Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDER, by WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The web outside the window filled Last Line: And he waits for what the wind will deliver Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDER, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How doth the jolly little spider Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDER, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With what voice Last Line: In this autumn breeze? Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anansi, black busybody of the folktales Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Africa; Fables; Insects; Spiders; Allegories; Bugs SPIDER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anansi, black busybody of the folktales Last Line: Ex machina. Nor did they seem deterred by this Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Africa; Fables; Insects; Spiders SPIDER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This enormous spider isn't moving any more Last Line: And the gloomy thoughts this traveler has brought me Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is a huge spider that cannot crawl farther Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's an enormous spider that no longer moves Last Line: And today when worry that traveler brought me! Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Worry 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 SPIDER HANGS TOO FAR FROM THE GROUND, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source Last Line: Before they bury me Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Spiders SPIDER HOLDS A SILVER BALL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: His boundaries -- forgot Variant Title(s): Poem: 605; Poem: 51 Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDER-CRAB, by DAVID GEORGE Poem Source First Line: A spindly spider-crab with spokes for legs Last Line: But empty now, where once a spider stood Subject(s): History; Insects; Spiders; Stones SPIDERS, by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source First Line: The eight-legged aerialists Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDERS, by COLETTE M. BURNS Poem Text First Line: With space their blackboard, spiders teach Last Line: Mathematics of the universe. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs SPIDERS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Over beds %and often under Subject(s): Insects SPLASHING AND SPLATTERING OVER THE TRAILS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The winner! The winner! It's mrs. Molasses! %splat! %that's that Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects STINGS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bare-handed, I hand the combs Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs STINGS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bare-handed, I hand the combs Last Line: The mausoleum, the wax house Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Insects STINKBUG, SMELLY FELLOW, HIDING IN THE GROUND, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: It's never any secret where a stinkbug is! Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects 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 STUDY FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL TRAIL; 4. NEW JERSEY, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So much depends on four butterflies Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs SUFFERING, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: I sat down on a bumble bee Last Line: Humiliating pain. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Pain; Beekeeping; Bugs; Suffering; Misery SWARM, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody is shooting at something in our town Last Line: Napoleon is pleased, he is pleased with everything. %o europe! O ton of honey! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Napoleon I (1769-1821) SWARMING BEES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the evening Last Line: The black & burned and %crawling deathshead of %my youth's old europe! Subject(s): Bees; Grant, Heber Jedediah (1856-1945); Insects SWEET HONEY-SUCKING BEES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Was ever dart so sharp ah then you die Subject(s): Bees;honey;insects; Beekeeping;bugs TARANTULA, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm drinking coffee with an olive-skinned woman Last Line: But the memory of the tarantula, its proximity, defeats me Subject(s): Insects; Man-woman Relationships; Spiders TELLING THE BEES, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: When the old man draws his last breath Last Line: Wondering which humming body might be his Subject(s): Bees; Fields; Honey; Insects TELLING THE BEES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "naiads, and ye pastures cold" Last Line: Mourn a neighbor and a friend Subject(s): Bees;insects; Beekeeping;bugs TELLING THE BEES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the place; right over the hill Last Line: "mistress mary is dead and gone!" Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Mourning; Beekeeping; Bugs; Bereavement TELLING THE BEES (A COLONIAL CUSTOM), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bathsheba came out to the sun Last Line: Telling the bees. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TERMITES, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Our %high and %mighty %termite Last Line: Still our hill suits us just fine Subject(s): Insects TERMITES, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Then inside's well Subject(s): Insects THAT SPIDER YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD...', by CHRISTIAN VIREDAZ Poem Source Last Line: The sun gently %sets on fire Subject(s): Insects; Spiders THE AMBITIOUS ANT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ambitious ant would a-travelling go Last Line: "how glad I am that I crossed the sea!" Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs THE ANT, by AL-TULAITILI Poem Text First Line: Slender her flank Last Line: Of a learned judge. Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs THE ANT, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant Last Line: Thinking to save all, we cast all away. Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs THE ANT-HEAP, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High in the woodland, on the mountain-side Last Line: The pity they deny. Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Bugs THE ANT-LION, by THOMAS MILLER (1807-1874) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By digging a hole in the sand Last Line: And both of us live by slaughter and strife. Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Wasps; Bugs; Yellow Jackets THE ARRIVAL OF THE BEE BOX, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ordered this, this clean wood box Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BAG OF THE BEE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About the sweet bag of a bee Last Line: And gave the bag between them. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like trains of cars on tracks of plush Last Line: Of clovers and of noon! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mark how the neat assiduous bee Last Line: When smiling youth is past. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEE, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What time I paced, at pleasant morn Last Line: Tampa, florida, 1877. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEE AND THE BLOSSOMS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why stand ye idle, blossoms bright Last Line: "for what thou takest away!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEE MEETING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Fear; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEE'S WING, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fill, fill to the brim, let the bubble forth swin Last Line: "along with the ""bee's wing." Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEE-WISP, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our window-panes enthral our summer bees Last Line: Against the very hand of providence. Subject(s): Insects; Bugs THE BEE; AN EPIGRAM: STREPHON TO DELIA, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely delia, why so coy? Last Line: I fear, like bees, he'd raise a swelling. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEE; TO GRANCIS DE MIOMANDRE, by PAUL VALERY Poet's Biography First Line: What and how keen and mortal soever Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEEKEEPER'S DAUGHTER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A garden of mouthings. Purple, scarlet-speckled, black Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Fathers & Daughters; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEES OF MYDDLETON MANOR; 17TH CENTURY, by MAY PROBYN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buzzing, buzzing, buzzing, my golden-belted bees Last Line: Middleton luck it's done and dead. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BEES' SONG, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thousandz of thornz there be Last Line: Of far-away zzzee. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BENUMBED BUTTERFLY, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Beautiful creature, how I envy thee! Last Line: Ingrate! Have chattered more than thou art worth. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BLUEBELL, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poem Text First Line: In love she fell Last Line: When, lo, he flew away! Subject(s): Bees; Bluebells; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BUMBLEBEE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You better not fool with a bumblebee! Last Line: "wears out his welcome too quick fer me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE BUTTERFLIES OF TAIWAN, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: I said: because it is the case that Last Line: Or curious, like the butterflies of taiwan? Subject(s): Butterflies; Happiness; Insects; Taiwan; Wings; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Formosa THE BUTTERFLY, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An uproar Last Line: Towards the subhuman swamp of under-dark? Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those things / which you so laughingly call Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the gorgeous butterfly / in the jubilee of spring Last Line: By perfidious pleasure's thorn! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by ALICE ARCHER SEWALL JAMES Poem Text First Line: I am not what I was yesterday Last Line: Take care of me. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's just a monstrous ant with paper wings Last Line: And haven't seen it make a bit of butter. Subject(s): Butterflies; Children; Insects; Childhood; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Coming with the daffodils and dying with the roses Last Line: Bears it home to heaven again for lasting joy and deep. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by ADELAIDE O'KEEFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly, an idle thing Last Line: Nor be a butterfly. Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, Adelaide Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: He loitered on from flower to flower Last Line: The monarch of a peaceful breast. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature; Wings; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly from flower to flower Last Line: The very glory he had sought. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched to-day a butterfly Last Line: Have raised my thoughts from earth to god. Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Earth; Insects; Life; Time; Dead, The; World; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leafless, stemless, floating flower Last Line: Bearing blossoms of thy kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alexis seized a prisoned butterfly Last Line: Claim to such trust, - all nature's underling?' Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY AND THE ROSE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She pluck'd a wild wood-rose, and fondly strove Last Line: To hold it, thou hast lightly thrown away! Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL, by THOMAS ROSCOE Poem Text First Line: Come, take up your hats, and away let us haste Last Line: His merry companions return'd in a throng. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL, by WILLIAM CALDWELL ROSCOE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, take up your hats, and away let us haste Last Line: His merry companions returned in a throng. Subject(s): Insects; Parties; Bugs THE BUTTERFLY'S FIRST FLIGHT, by AGNES STRICKLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast burst from thy prison Last Line: To pleasure once more. Subject(s): Butterflies; Flight; Insects; Flying; Bugs THE CAPTIVE BEE; OR THE LITTLE FILCHER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As julia once a-slumbering lay Last Line: Hony enough to fill his hive. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE CATERPILLAR, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under this loop of honeysuckle Last Line: And eat, eat, eat -- as one ought to eat. Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs THE CATERPILLAR, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, that I too could go to sleep Last Line: The peach-blooms and the daffodils! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Butterflies; Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs THE COQUETTE (A VILLANELLE), by EUGENIA BRAGG SMITH Poem Text First Line: I see a dainty butterfly Last Line: She calls her mate in passing by. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE CORAL INSECT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toil on! Toil on! Last Line: While the wonder and pride of your works remain. Subject(s): Coral; Insects; Sea; Bugs; Ocean THE DAVENTRY WONDER; SHOWING HOW FARMER B-LL'S BEES ISSUED ..., by AGRICOLA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "now cynthia shone serene, and every star" Last Line: "let learned macclesfield say what he will, / spite of new style, we'll keep old christmas still" Alternate Author Name(s): Agricola Subject(s): Bees;christmas;farm Life;holidays;insects; "beekeeping;nativity, The;agriculture;farmers;bugs; THE DEAD BUTTERFLY, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I see its whiteness Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE DOODLE-BUGS'S CHARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When uncle sidney he comes Last Line: "come up an' git some bread!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Gardens & Gardening; Insects; Relatives; Bugs THE EARLY BUTTERFLY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trusting the first warm day of spring Last Line: "that hush'd in grim repose, expect their evening prey." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE EXAMPLE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's an example from a butterfly Last Line: To make a stone a flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE EXHAUSTED BUG; FOR MY FATHER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a tiny., hard-shelled thing. He is the length of a child's tooth, and Last Line: Father stretched out in his coffin. Subject(s): Beetles; Curiosities & Wonders; Death; Fathers & Sons; Insects; Enigmas; Oddities; Dead, The; Bugs THE FLOWER AND THE BUTTERFLY, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once to the butterfly a floweret sighed Last Line: "the sky—the mead." Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Bugs THE FLOWER SPIDER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You've read of a spider, I suppose Last Line: The spider's nature goes! Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poetry of earth is never dead Last Line: The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. Variant Title(s): On The Grasshopper And Cricket Subject(s): Crickets; Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Insects; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green little vaulter in the sunny grass Last Line: In doors and out, summer and winter, mirth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Variant Title(s): To Grasshopper And Cricket;on The Grasshopper And Cricket;to The Grasshopper And The Cricket Subject(s): Crickets; Grasshoppers; Insects; Bugs THE GROATSWORTH OF WIT: A CONCEITED FABLE OF THE OLD COMEDIAN AESOP, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ant and a grasshopper, walking together on a Last Line: Without remedy. Subject(s): Aesop (620?-560? B.c); Ants; Fables; Grasshoppers; Insects; Allegories; Bugs THE GRUMBLING HIVE; OR, KNAVES TURN'D HONEST, by BERNARD MANDEVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spacious hive well stocked with bees Last Line: For acorns as for honesty. Subject(s): Bees; Freedom; Insects; Beekeeping; Liberty; Bugs THE HEART, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stumblebum in scree Last Line: With his throat cut Subject(s): Butterflies; Hummingbirds; Insects; Bugs THE HEN AND THE HONEY-BEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a lazy hen, -- the story goes" Last Line: Are doing all the useful labor! Subject(s): Bees;hens;insects;labor & Laborers; Beekeeping;bugs THE HOMING BEE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are belted with gold, little brotherb of mine Last Line: For others, your gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Metaphor; Nature; Beekeeping; Bugs; Similes THE HONEY BEE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O bee, goodby Last Line: No second sting. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE HONEYBEE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You do everything, melissa, just the way Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Love; Love - Complaints; Pentastichs; Beekeeping; Bugs THE HUMBLE BEE, by CATHERINE ANNE DORSET Poem Text First Line: Good morrow, gentle humble bee Last Line: To bliss again! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Catherine Anne Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE HUMBLE-BEE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Burly, dozing humble-bee, / where thou art is clime for me Last Line: Thy sleep makes ridiculous. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE HUMMING BIRDS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green wing and ruby throat Last Line: Sleeps in this bloom; and, when it falls, they go. Subject(s): Bees; Heaven; Hummingbirds; Insects; Sleep; Summer; Trees; Beekeeping; Paradise; Bugs THE INTERLUDE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much of transfiguration that we hear Subject(s): Insects; Death; Religion; Transfiguration; Bugs; Dead, The; Theology THE IRATE BEE, by IDA L. PADELFORD Poem Text First Line: Devilish squirmy spider Last Line: And push my way clean through. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Spiders; Beekeeping; Bugs THE JEWELS, by MARION J. HEXT Poem Text First Line: This morning, after last night's rain Last Line: They were drops of dew in a spider's web. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs THE LANAWN SHEE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Powdered and perfumed the full bee Last Line: We two shall move to fairy places. Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Happiness; Insects; Ireland; Mythology - Irish; Poppies; Beekeeping; Elves; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Irish THE LESSON, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother tells little bee Last Line: Sons of men! Sons of men! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE LINDENS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bees in the lindens booming Last Line: In three days told. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Nature; Beekeeping; Bugs THE LOST BUTTERFLY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Like some rare flower endowed Last Line: The welcome music of immortal years. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature; Bugs THE MARCH BEE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A warning wind finds out my resting-place Last Line: Still listening to the bee, still basking in the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Bees; England; Insects; Landscape; Beekeeping; English; Bugs THE MEMORY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the little, crooked street that went to meet the sea Last Line: The blowing grass, the torn nets -- and one girl's scorning. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Exiles; Insects; Bugs THE MILLIPEDE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oi! Oi! Noli me tangere, no argument Subject(s): Insects; Bugs THE MINIMAL, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I study the lives on a leaf; the little Subject(s): Insects; Bugs THE MISTAKEN MOTH, by ? WEGENER Poem Text First Line: Mid the summer flush of roses Last Line: "butterfly!" Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Kisses; Women; Bugs THE ORPHIC SOUL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walk slowly along Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Self; Soul; Bugs THE PARLIAMENT OF BEES, by JOHN DAY Poem Text First Line: Abroad, my pretty bees: I hope you'll find Last Line: From forth our wingèd commonwealth. Subject(s): Bees; Fantasy; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE PARLOR AND THE FLY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will you walk into the spider? Last Line: "he will have no room to spin." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs THE PINEAPPLES AND THE BEE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pineapples, in triple row Last Line: Can gather honey from a weed. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Pineapples; Truth; Wisdom; Beekeeping; Bugs THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 159, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On cold mountain there's a naked bug Last Line: Ready to strike troublesome foes Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Insects; Swords; Wisdom; Buddha; Buddhists; Bugs THE PRESENT: OR THE BAG OF THE BEE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fly to my mistresse, pretty pilfring bee Last Line: Tole forth my death; next, to my buryall come. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE QUEEN-BEE FLIES, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on the breeze flies the virgin-queen of the hive! Last Line: With your low, slow song, praising -- praising -- eternity-long! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE ROSE AND THE BEE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were a bee and you were a rose Last Line: "if you were a bee." Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SECRET OF THE BEES, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How have you managed it? Bright busy bee! Last Line: And we got our good habits through sheer common-sense. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SHEPHERD BOY (2), by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fly or beetle on their track Last Line: The summer long his whole employ -- Subject(s): Insects; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Bugs THE SILKWORM AND THE CATERPILLAR; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time -- if tales are true Last Line: The caterpillar of my story! Subject(s): Caterpillars; Criticism & Critics; Insects; Bugs THE SOUND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy at this time of year Last Line: I said, if only I could hear them. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Nature; Sound; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SPIDER, by EDWARD LITTLETON Poem Text First Line: Artist, that underneath my table / thy curious feature hast displayed Last Line: Ends both the spider and the poet. Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Spiders; Wings; Bugs THE SPIDER, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, look at that great ugly spider!' said ann Last Line: "that a poor little spider is wiser than you. " Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs THE SPIDER AND THE BEE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nymph who walks the public streets Last Line: By folly your own schemes undo.' Subject(s): Beauty; Bees; Charm; Desire; Insects; Spiders; Women; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SPIDER AND THE BEE (A TALE FOR THE TIMES), by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He had closed his volume of theorie Last Line: This story one tiny superfluous token. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Philosophy & Philosophers; Spiders; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SPIDER AND THE FLY, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will you walk into my parlor?' said the spider to the fly Last Line: The fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Flattery; Insects; Spiders; Vanity; Bugs THE SPIDER WEB, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: To-night I am very happy Last Line: I have taken long in the spinning. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Weariness; Bugs; Fatigue THE SPINNERS, by ANNE GOODWIN WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: Spider, spinning in the sun Last Line: That flies no more by day! Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs THE STUDY OF A SPIDER, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From holy flower to holy flower Last Line: And from their gibbets take thy dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs THE SUGAR-CANE: CRESCENDO, by JAMES GRAINGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And pity the poor planter when the blast Last Line: Bugs of uncommon shape. Subject(s): Fields; Insects; Nature; Plague; Plantation Life; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs THE SWARM, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody is shooting at something in our town Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Beekeeping; Bugs THE TAX-GATHERER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And pray, who are you? Last Line: "have you nothing for me?" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Taxes; Beekeeping; Bugs THE TICKLE RHYME, by IAN SERRAILLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who's that tickling my back?' said the wall Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs THE TOAD AND SPIDER; A DUEL, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a day when the dog-star Last Line: Of his fair aid a monument. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Toads; Bugs THE TULIP AND THE LILY, SELECTION, by JAMES BARCLAY Poem Text First Line: To these proud taunts and more beside Last Line: "perfumes e'en cloe's fragrant breath." Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Lilies; Beekeeping; Bugs THE WEDDING, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At noon, tithonus, withered by his singing Last Line: Woke from the nap, forgetting him; and ate him. Subject(s): Insects; Love - Nature Of; Mythology - Classical; Spiders; Bugs THE WHIMS OF THE AMOROUS; A TRUE STORY, REPATED AFTER OLD DOCUMENTS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the hedge the beetle sits sadly Last Line: Poor bride has long been dead and rotten. Subject(s): Insects; Love; Marriage; Bugs; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WHITE BEES, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago apollo called to aristaeus Last Line: Joy and pain of seeking, -- and at last we sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Bees; Greece; Insects; Paganism & Pagans; Beekeeping; Greeks; Bugs THE WOODTICKS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's things out in the forest Last Line: A-crawlin' thro' yer hair. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Forests; Insects; Spiders; Trees; Worms; Woods; Bugs THE YALLER JACKETS' NEST, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I could only wander back Last Line: Round the yaller jackets' nest. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs THEY LOOK, by OSHIMA RYOTA Poem Source Last Line: Those two butterflies Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects THOMAS MERTON AND THE WINTER MARSH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went out of the house to smoke. A thousand Last Line: And mother of christ. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Cold; Insects; Merton, Thomas (1915-1968); Spiders; Bugs THREE ANIMALS: THE BUTTERFLY, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly / flies up like pow Last Line: "like a woman’s face to pow Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THREE ANIMALS: THE BUTTERFLY, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The butterfly %flies up like pow Last Line: Like a woman's face to powder Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects THREE BUGS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three little bugs in a basket Last Line: And leave no bug in the cold! Subject(s): Insects; Bugs THREE LEIS FOR A PARTING, by WALKER WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: Not of the flower of ginger, nor of gardenias Last Line: Pigments the pastels of our waters at dusk. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THREE PENGUIN CATERPILLARS, by CATHERINE B. TOOSEY Poem Text First Line: Three caterpillars poised: together straight Last Line: Erect, with white broad breasts and flippers stretched. Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs THREE THINGS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Three things puzzled aristotle's wife: Last Line: The mind of her man. Subject(s): Aristotle (384-322 B.c.); Bees; Insects; Reason; Tides; Women THROUGH THE TANGLE, SOFTLY GLIDING, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: A belly with a head stuck on Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects TICKLE RHYME, by IAN SERRAILLIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who's that tickling my back?' said the wall Last Line: Caterpillar. 'I'm learning %to crawl' Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects TICKS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: Not gigan-tic, %not roman-tic Last Line: Ticks are strictly parasi-tic Subject(s): Insects TINIEST OF LIVES, by CHIN JEN-JUI Poem Source First Line: Beneath the leaf a green insect, and frost upon the leaf Last Line: I'd make you live a thousand autumns, ten thousand years Subject(s): Insects TO A BEE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus in velvet, / this afternoon sunny Last Line: America blooming! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TO A BEE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small epicurean, would to heaven that I Last Line: Still sips and sings the springtide hours away! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TO A BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wert out betimes, thou busy busy bee Last Line: Woe then for thee, thou busy busy bee! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Labor & Laborers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Teaching & Teachers; Beekeeping; Bugs; Work; Workers TO A BUTTERFLY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Butterfly Last Line: While with thee I wander! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Nature - Religious Aspects; Wandering & Wanderers; Bugs; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes TO A BUTTERFLY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little fluttering beauteous fly Last Line: For short thy moments of delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TO A BUTTERFLY, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Already in midsummer / I miss your feet and fur Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TO A BUTTERFLY, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Already in midsummer %I miss your feet and fur Last Line: Wiles gather dust. Each will have flown %the other's jail Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects TO A BUTTERFLY, by L. PEARL SCHUCK Poem Source First Line: Sun is a rose window Last Line: My breath gauze in my throat. %when you fly, I will follow Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects TO A BUTTERFLY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've watched you now a full half-hour Last Line: As twenty days are now. Variant Title(s): To A Butterfly Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Time; Bugs TO A BUTTERFLY IN A WINDOW, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Escaped thy place of wintry rest Last Line: And all thou know'st of life be good. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TO A CHALK-BLUE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Butterflies, butterflies, delicate downy ones Last Line: Oh, bold little, old little, blue bit of june! Subject(s): Blue (color); Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TO A GREEN-CHAFER, ON A WHITE ROSE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You dwell within a lovely bower Last Line: With baseness and ingratitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Beetles; Insects; Bugs TO A HONEY BEE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, born to sip the lake or spring Last Line: We'll tell the hive, you died afloat. Variant Title(s): On A Honey Bee;the Honey Bee Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TO A HONEY-BEE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Busy-body, busy-body Last Line: And turn my work to play. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TO A LOUSE, ON SEEING ONE ON A LADY'S BONNET AT CHURCH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ha! Whare ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie! Last Line: And ev'n devotin! Subject(s): Insects; Lice; Bugs TO A MONARCH BUTTERFLY, by LOLA SNEYD Poem Source First Line: Traveling jewel of the skies Last Line: I'll remember nature's art Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects TO A POET-CRITIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, - the bee sings - I confess it Last Line: Ef he didn't have no stinger. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bees; Criticism & Critics; Heaven; Insects; Singing & Singers; Beekeeping; Paradise; Bugs TO A SPIDER, by JESSIE GRAY SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Oh king of silken fabrics, filmy fine Last Line: What priceless lessons to mankind are taught. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs TO A SPIDER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spider! Thou need'st not run in fear about Last Line: I spin my brains. Subject(s): Insects; Poetry & Poets; Spiders; Bugs TO A STEAM ROLLER, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The illustration Last Line: The congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Steamrollers; Bugs TO A WILD BEE, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roamer of the mountain Last Line: And thou, thou murmuring bee! Should chorus o'er my grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TO A YELLOW BUTTERFLY, APRIL 8, 1808, by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Loveliest insect of the spring! Last Line: May'st thou thy transient life enjoy! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects TO AN ANGRY BEE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Malicious insect, little vengeful bee Last Line: Crops sorrow's weed, and treads on pleasure's flower. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TO AN INSECT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love to hear thine earnest voice Last Line: Than many a kate has done. Variant Title(s): Katydid Subject(s): Insects; Katydids; Bugs TO MRS. PRIESTLEY, WITH SOME DRAWINGS OF BIRDS AND INSECTS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amanda bids; at her command again Last Line: Yet far, far dearer were the name of friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Drawing; Birds; Insects; Bugs TO THE BEE BALM, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unmoved I saw you blooming Last Line: That mirrored maid and flower. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TO THE BEES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh whither, honey-bees Last Line: My life that nourish Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Kisses; Life; Lips; Spring; Beekeeping; Bugs TO THE BURNIE BEE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe son of summer, furl thy filmy wing Last Line: Fit for the spring that waits beyond the tomb. Subject(s): Future Life; Insects; Ladybirds; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bugs; Ladybugs TO THE BUTTERFLY, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of the sun! Pursue thy rapturous flight Last Line: To burst a seraph in the blaze of day! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TO THE LADY-BIRD, by CATHERINE ANNE DORSET Poem Text First Line: Oh! Lady-bird, lady-bird, why dost thou roam Last Line: No more from your nest, and your children to roam. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Catherine Anne Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Bugs; Ladybugs TO THE LADYBIRD, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home Last Line: The warming pan. Variant Title(s): "the Ladybird;""ladybug, Ladybug""; Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Bugs; Ladybugs TO THE QUEEN OF THE BEES, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bee! Tell me, whence do you come? Last Line: A honeycombe. Variant Title(s): The Messenger Subject(s): Bees; Honeycombs; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs TO THE SPIDER, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ingenious insect, but of ruthless mould Last Line: Then most delighted, when his prey is man. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs TOTI DEL MONTE (THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT), by RENEE WEISS First Line: Amazing, that opera Last Line: All those pounds of her, %toti del monte Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects TRANSFORMATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterflies are buttercups, wind-blown Last Line: Are butterflies flight-weary, seeking rest. Subject(s): Butterflies; Fields; Insects; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs TREEHOPPERS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: They're hip %they hop Last Line: They'd do %with rope! Subject(s): Insects TRIANTIWONTIGONGOLOPE, by C. J. DENNIS Poem Source First Line: There's a very insect that you do not often spy Last Line: Tri-ant-wonti- %triantiwontigongolope Subject(s): Insects TRIVIAL DETAIL, by VIOLET HELEN FRIEDLAENDER Poem Text First Line: Floating on the water in the a.R.P. Bucket Last Line: Extraordinarily happy. Subject(s): Insects; Ladybirds; Life; War; Bugs; Ladybugs TROPICAL BEETLES, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Composed of horny, jagged blacks Last Line: And win, when stepped on in the dark, %disgusted exclamations Subject(s): Beetles; Insects TWINKLE, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Flash dim to bright Subject(s): Insects TWO SONGS: 1, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bee that was searching for sweets one day Last Line: For to love is sweet, so sweet. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Robins; Beekeeping; Bugs TWO VOYAGERS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two butterflies went out at noon Last Line: Report was not to me. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs TYPICAL, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Incidents along the way Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Danger; Insects; Travel UNAPPRECIATED SPIDER, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source First Line: When the construction of such other sobbing starts Last Line: When the unappreciated spider returns to her window just as a reminder Subject(s): Insects; Spiders UNDER THE THUNDERHEADS, OVER THE TRAILS, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: He's slipping! He's sliding! Get out of the way! Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects UNIVERSE'S GENTLENESS PROVEN IN BUTTERFLY DESIGN, by TINA KELLY Poem Source First Line: Do not fret, fragilest one Last Line: Cakemix to the homeless, cans, no canopeners Subject(s): Butterflies; Colors; Insects; Universe 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 MOLE IN CELIA'S BOSOM, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That lovely spot which thou dost see Last Line: Of the bee's honey and her sting. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Mole (skin Growth); Beekeeping; Bugs 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 USED TO BE A POLLYWOG, AND THEN I MUST HAVE BLINKED, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: Slurp a little puddle scum - graaaaaaaaak! Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects VANDALS, BEES, by ALAN MICHAEL PARKER Poem Source First Line: In the poem about the vandals and the bees Last Line: (yarrow, thistle, wheat, whatever.) %look at me, they yode. Beebeebee! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Vandalism VARIOUS OCCASIONS OF INTEREST IN THE FIELDS AND GARDENS: 40, by FAN CH'ENG-TA Poem Source First Line: He calmly watches a spider weave Last Line: To help them break the siege Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Insects; Spiders VIVALDI, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This terrified, castrated parasite Last Line: Envious and penniless in topeka, or better yet, vienna? Subject(s): Insects WAKE UP! WAKE UP!, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Sleeping butterfly Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects WALKINGSTICK, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: The walkingstick is thin, not thick Last Line: It lives another day to walk Subject(s): Insects WALNUTS, by OUIDA LOUISE CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Walnuts must be cocoons Last Line: A butterfly. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Walnuts; Bugs WASPS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: One's for stinging Subject(s): Insects WATCHING ANTS, by YANG WAN-LI Poem Source First Line: When one of them chances to meet another Last Line: Their wagon train is filled Subject(s): Ants; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Insects WATER BOATMEN, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: Stroke!' %we're water boatmen Last Line: Rest!' %'rest!' Subject(s): Insects WATER BUG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The water bug is drawing the shadows of evening' Last Line: Toward him across the water Subject(s): Insects WATER BUGS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Skimming %skating Subject(s): Insects WATER SPIDER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But cannot shake the lake Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Spiders; Water WATER STRIDERS, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: Whenever we're asked Last Line: Sunk from view Subject(s): Insects WE'RE HOPPING AND KICKING AND THRASHING AND THUMPING, by KURT CYRUS Poem Source Last Line: Pardon my pincher, please Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Insects WEATHER WISE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If bees stay at home / rain will soon come Last Line: Fine will be the day Variant Title(s): Bees;the Prophets Of The Hive Subject(s): Bees;insects;weather; Beekeeping;bugs WEBS, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I weave a web of song to snare Last Line: Will flash a word, a song, a wing. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Weaving & Weavers; Bugs WEBWORMS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Weave cotton candy %in the trees Subject(s): Insects WEEVILS, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: We are weevils %we are evil Last Line: We are weevils, %we are evil Subject(s): Insects WEEVILS, by DOUGLAS KAINE MCKELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Those weevils eat Subject(s): Insects WHEN A BUTTERFLY SEES A FLOWER, by SONG-I Poem Source Last Line: Which must not come again Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Hearts; Insects; Love WHEN DIAMONDS ARE A LEGEND, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: And once - a butterfly Variant Title(s): Poem: 397; Poem: 55 Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects WHILE YOU WRITE THE TINY...', by CHRISTIAN VIREDAZ Poem Source Last Line: His silk thread like a star Subject(s): Insects; Spiders WHIRLIGIG, by PAUL FLEISCHMAN Poem Source First Line: We're whirligig beetles Last Line: Best possible %route Subject(s): Insects WHIRLIGIG BEETLES, by DOUGLAS FLORIAN Poem Source First Line: We whirl, we twirl Last Line: Without the windup keys or noise Subject(s): Insects WILD BEES, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often in summer, on a tarred bridge plank standing Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs WILD BEES, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Often in summer, on a tarred bridge plank standing Last Line: To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Bees; Insects WILD BEES, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These children of the sun which summer brings Last Line: These sweeten summer in their happy glee %by giving for her honey melody Subject(s): Bees; Insects WILD GOATS, by ANICE PAGE COOPER Poem Text First Line: The moon is full but it won't spill over Last Line: Hearts never do. Subject(s): Bees; Girls; Hearts; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Bugs WILD HONEY, by RAYMOND HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: Still in my fingers the stings Last Line: And a starless breeze. Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond Peckham Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs WILD HONEY, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where hints of racy sap and gum Last Line: The pollen-dust of centuries! Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice Subject(s): Bees; Honey; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs WILD-ROSES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against the dim hot summer blue Last Line: And brown bees drone their honey-call. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Summer; Beekeeping; Bugs WINGS, by MINNIE S. HUNTER Poem Text First Line: A butterfly with velvet wings that go Last Line: One blew down and remained to slumber. Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs WINGS OF LACE, by HILDEGARDE FRIED DREPS Poem Text First Line: Pasque flowers hide within their hearts of gold Last Line: To seed-pearls which take flight on wings of lace. Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs WINTER BUTTERFLIES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The snowflakes flutter all around Last Line: To visit boys and girls they love. Subject(s): Butterflies; Children; Insects; Snow; Childhood; Bugs WINTERING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the easy time, there is nothing doing Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs WINTERING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the easy time, there is nothing doing Last Line: The bees are flying. They taste the spring Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Bees; Insects WITH A RAVENOUS SPIKE, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: I know that city coyote Last Line: Housefly sipped with the wine Subject(s): Animals; Insects YELLOWJACKETS, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How many years past was it I burned out their nest Last Line: Their buried nest & one who could not live with them Subject(s): Bees; Death; Future Life; Insects; Memory |
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