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Subject: OXEN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALPHABESTIARY: O, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O is for ox, by which word we
Last Line: Even it would blush for shame
Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Oxen


AN OX PAST SERVICE, by ADDAEUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: With weight of years and yoke forspent
Last Line: To graze and rest and low.
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


ARTIC OX, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To wear the artic ox
Last Line: I think that we deserve to freeze
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Musk Oxen


ATTENDANTS, by DAVID MORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mild-eyed oxen and the gentle ass
Last Line: Something that chanced because the inn was full.
Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Oxen; Nativity, The


CAROL FOR CHRISTMAS TIDE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ox he openeth wide the doore
Last Line: Between her bosom and his hayre!
Variant Title(s): Tryste Noel
Subject(s): Animals; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Oxen; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


FAMILIAR OXEN, by OUMAR BA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You tell me you have right on your side?
Last Line: They will respond to their baptismal names
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


IF I MIGHT BE AN OX, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: But I would have my love
Subject(s): Animals;love;oxen


IN ANCIENT TIMES, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The oxen bring us power and bring us love!
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen; Past


MY OX DUKE, by JOHN DYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on a summer noon, in stainsford mead
Last Line: The honest ox, rejoiced, into the shade.
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


MY TWELVE OXEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have twelve oxen that are fair and brown
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


OX, by OU YANGXIU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the sun comes over the eastern hedge
Last Line: And leading a calf, it walks
Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu
Subject(s): Animals; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Oxen


OXEN, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Weary, they plod the ploughlands of the world
Last Line: Serve him, complaintless, who hath made them slaves.
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


PACE OF THE OX, by CULLEN GOULDSBURY    Poem Source                    
First Line: What do we know - and what do we care - of time
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


QUESTIONS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the secret of your life, browsing ox
Last Line: If for you death will gain no life's creating?
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


SACRED EPIGRAM: I HAVE BOUGHT YOKES OF OXEN, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I call you to the feast, which the master's orders wished
Last Line: The feast would, I think, rather have your oxen [than you]
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


SAWESTE NOT YOU MY OXEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have twelfe oxen, that be faire and brown
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


SEEING THE OX, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brown ox / nose snubbed up
Subject(s): Oxen


TEAMS, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A cloud of dust on the long, white road
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: CATCHING THE OX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I whisper come
Last Line: I am cautioned by the hands
Subject(s): Oxen


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: COMING HOME ON THE OX'S BACK, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I mount the ox
Last Line: The man claims ox. %I claim the man
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen; Travel


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: END OF MEDITATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is
Last Line: Ox is %what
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: ENTERING THE CITY WITH BLISS-BESTOWING HANDS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have come to the gates
Last Line: They tremble as they rise
Subject(s): Animals; Cities; Oxen; Urban Life


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: ENTERING THE CITY WITH BLISS-BESTOWING HANDS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have come to the gates
Last Line: They tremble as they rise
Subject(s): Animals; Cities; Oxen


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: HERDING THE OX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hands refuse to gather
Last Line: Is not ox
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: HERDING THE OX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hands refuse to gather
Last Line: What can be herded %is no ox.'
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: RETURNING TO THE ORIGIN, BACK TO THE SOURCE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What come / when you whisper
Last Line: In the folding / of hands
Subject(s): Oxen


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: SEARCHING FOR THE OX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They have waited my lifetime for this
Last Line: It is the summons from the ox
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen; Photography & Photographers


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: SEARCHING FOR THE OX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They have waited my lifetime for this
Last Line: It is the summons from the ox
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen; Photography And Photographers


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: SEEING THE OX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the flesh
Last Line: We are coming to the ox
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: SEEING THE OX, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the flesh
Last Line: We are coming to the ox
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: THE OX AND THE MAN BOTH GONE OUT OF SIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Man is not ox
Last Line: All things are ox
Subject(s): Animals; Life; Mankind; Oxen; Human Race


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: THE OX AND THE MAN BOTH GONE OUT OF SIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Man is not ox
Last Line: All things are ox
Subject(s): Animals; Life; Mankind; Oxen


TEN OXHERDING PICTURES: THE OX FORGOTTEN, LEAVING THE MAN ALONE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been arriving
Last Line: Dearly beloved, %where is ox?
Subject(s): Animals; Memory; Oxen


THE ARTIC OX, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To wear the artic ox
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Musk Oxen; Animal Abuse; Vivisection


THE DEAD OX, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! Smoking in the stubborn plough, the ox
Last Line: Their cup: nor one care mars their honest sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen; Plowing & Plowmen


THE OX, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love thee, pious ox; a gentle feeling
Last Line: All the divine green silence of the plain.
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


THE OX, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Why should I pause, poor beast, to praise
Last Line: When robin redbreast comes no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


THE OX-TAMER, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a far-away northern county in the placid pastoral region
Last Line: In the northern county far, in the placid pastoral region.
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


THE OXEN, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas eve, and twelve of the clock
Last Line: Hoping it might be so.
Subject(s): Animals; Christianity; Christmas; Mythology; Oxen; Nativity, The


THE THYROID GLAND, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you removed my thyroid gland
Last Line: Are all my thyroid gland.
Subject(s): Animals; Oxen


THE TWELVE OXEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have twelve oxen that be fair and brown
Last Line: "sawest thou not mine oxen, thou litill pretty boy"
Subject(s): Animals;oxen


WHITE OXEN, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man walks beside them
Subject(s): Oxen