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| Searching... Subject: POISONS & POISONING Matches Found: 14 A MEDIC GATHERS MUSHROOMS FOR HIS LADY, by GRACE STONE COATES Poem Text First Line: Atropin for muscarine -- Last Line: We have not trod. Subject(s): Herbs; Mushrooms; Poisons & Poisoning; Morels A SUPPER AT MADAME DE BRINVILLIERS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small but gorgeous was the chamber Last Line: Wine and sigh alike are death! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Brinvilliers, Marie De (1630-1676); Poisons & Poisoning AN ELEGY ON SIR THOMAS OVERBURY; POISONED IN THE TOWER OF LONDON, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had not thy wrong, like to a wound ill cur'd Last Line: An antidote against the silent grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Overbury, Sir Thomas (1581-1613); Poisons & Poisoning; Tower Of London DEARTH, by VIRGINIA RICHARDS CASABONA Poem Text First Line: There is / this night a poignant/superfluity Last Line: Of you! Subject(s): Poisons & Poisoning DOMESTIC SCENES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was nearly daylight when she gave birth to the child, Subject(s): Family Life; Stillbirth; Marriage; Death; Fights; Murder; Poisons & Poisoning; Relatives; Death - Childbirth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The LOVE'S ARROW POISONED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come lift your head from that sad pillow, lady Last Line: Was folded in a pannier. Subject(s): Betrayal; Brothers; Love; Murder; Parents; Poisons & Poisoning; Punishment; Revenge; Sea; Sisters; Suicide; Half-brothers; Parenthood; Ocean REPRISALS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our words were spoken, and our hate found tongue Last Line: But with the hissing of a thousand snakes! Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Hate; Malice; Mankind; Poisons & Poisoning; Snakes; Human Race; Serpents; Vipers SCOTTY'S WILD STUFF STEW, by FRANCIS HUMPHRIS BROWN Poem Text First Line: The cause of all the trouble Last Line: "what he christened ""wild stuff stoo""." Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Poisons & Poisoning; Story-telling; Cookery STRATEGY, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD Poem Text First Line: Some, cupid kills with arrows Last Line: Poison-oak. Subject(s): Poisons & Poisoning THE DAY THAT WAS THAT DAY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind rose, and the wind fell Subject(s): Women; Despair; Loveless; Poisons & Poisoning; Family Life; Relatives THE DUN COW AND THE HAG, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the river volga near the village of anskijovka Last Line: Ran off her dress like a lowered hem. Subject(s): Cows; Drowning; Old Age; Poisons & Poisoning; Volga River, Russia; Women THE LAST MAN: MEDITATION, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bitter past Last Line: Even as I taste it. Subject(s): Future; Past; Poisons & Poisoning THE NETTLE-KING, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a nettle both great and strong Last Line: But he said not a word, and went his way. Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; Plants; Poisons & Poisoning; Planting; Planters TO A RATTLE SNAKE READY TO STRIKE, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: Fork-tongued, furtive charmer! Last Line: And cruel, primal curse. Subject(s): Cruelty; Poisons & Poisoning; Rattlesnakes |
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