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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: KNIVES Matches Found: 24 DAGGER [EL PUNAL], by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dagger rests in a drawer Last Line: So impassive or innocent its pride, and the years slip by, unheeding Subject(s): Knives EASIER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: How peacefully he wipes the bloddy knife Last Line: Is easier than chopping up a man Subject(s): Blood; Butchers; Knives; Lambs; Murder GRANDFATHER'S POCKETKNIFE, by JEFF STEWART Poem Source First Line: I keep the pulsing finger to myself Last Line: Bring me that finger, boy Subject(s): Grandparents; Knives HOW SHARP MUST BE THE FLETCHER'S KNIFE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And leave in both halves flight Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Feathers; Knives; Nature INVENTORY, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man came into the store Subject(s): Knives; Daggers INVENTORY, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man came into the store Last Line: Stealing a little jam %by god if I didn't hear someone %hit the bedrock again Subject(s): Knives KNIFE, by LASZLO NAGY Poem Source First Line: Knife, I longed to hold you Last Line: My knife - oh knife Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Knives; Murder KNIFE, by RICHARD TILLINGHAST Poem Source First Line: What was it I wonder Subject(s): Knives KNIFE THAT IS ALL BLADE, SELS., by JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO Poem Source First Line: Like a bullet Last Line: Is felt on knives Subject(s): Absence; Death; Knives LINES ADDRESSED TO HIS FATHER ON ... PRESENT OF A KNIFE, by JAMES EDWARD AUSTEN-LEIGH Poem Source First Line: Though superstitious folks may say Last Line: And me, your duteous son beleive Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Gifts And Giving; Knives MIRRORS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: The mirror is a distant precursor of the cinema Last Line: Obscene gesture back at him Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Conscience; Knives; Murder MISSED, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He fumed from the kitchen Last Line: Hers are black frost Subject(s): Anger; Family Life; Fights; Knives NEIGHBORS, THROWING KNIVES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the woods at the corner of our yards Last Line: Trellised vines, boxwoods manicured by wives. Subject(s): Hunting; Knives; Neighbors; Suburbs; Hunters; Daggers RIDDLE (3), by JAMES LEIGH PERROT Poem Source First Line: Each day by the clown I'm employed Last Line: To catch me -- 'tis folly to try Subject(s): Knives; Riddles SHE SAYS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She says the syringe is not her own Last Line: She says she is not afraid of prison Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Fear; Knives; Lies; Prisons And Prisoners SPLINTERS: 4. THE MOTHER'S SHARD, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No matter who you are, you open Last Line: A v-neck sweater and never %fondle shards Subject(s): Knives THE CLICK OF THE WIELDED PICK, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Oh, I like to list to the wielded pick Last Line: And sweet is its metal tone. Subject(s): Axes; Knives; Labor & Laborers; Hatchets; Daggers; Work; Workers THE DAFFODILS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now through the april land doth pass Last Line: Yet go we empty through the wood! Subject(s): Knives; Daggers THE PAPER KNIFE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Belinda! Deem not this, my shining blade Last Line: Till I my entrance and my exit make. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Knives; Daggers THE SINGING KNIVES, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dogs woke me up Subject(s): Knives; Hunting; Fish & Fishing; Daggers; Hunters; Anglers THE SONG OF THE GYPSY BOY, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hawthorn blossom's white in may Last Line: Beware! Beware! Subject(s): Children; Knives; Childhood; Daggers THEY THAT HAVE THE POWER TO HURT, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hand me the knife. There. See Last Line: Nor weapon, neither a means %nor an end. The knife is you Subject(s): Knives THREE JUDGES, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Judge knife is very narrow Last Line: Is wide enough all sides to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Knives; Spoons; Tableware; Daggers; Cutlery; Forks; Plates WHITTLING: A YANKEE PORTRAIT, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yankee boy, before he's sent to school Last Line: That there's go in it, and he'll make it go. Variant Title(s): Whittling: A National Portrait Subject(s): Children; Knives; Childhood; Daggers |
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