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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A RABBIT AS KING OF THE GHOSTS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The difficulty to think at the end of day
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Rabbits; Hares


ABSTRACTION, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What rabbit leaps from that trick top-hat
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Rabbits; White (color); Hares


AT DAWN, A RABBIT STRETCHES TALL, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To eat the red asparagus berries
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Rabbits


AUNT SOPHIE'S THOUGHTS ON RABBIT, by TAYLOR GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: How lucy's lived so long with a man
Last Line: How she's lived so long
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Relationships


BATTLE BUNNY; MALVERN HILL, 1864, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bunny, lying in the grass
Last Line: Twixt a rabbit's god and man's.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Rabbits; United States - History; Hares


BEHOLDING THE HARE, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the gale that's trying to take the roof off this small house
Subject(s): Rabbits; Hares


BLUE HARE, by KEVIN BLACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the resuscitation room
Last Line: And he leapt the fence out of the bog %into the green meadow
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Survival


BOOKS OF ST. ALBANS: THE HARE, by JULIANA BERNERS                        Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnes, Juliana; Bernes, Julia
Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Rabbits


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 31. THE BRINDLED HARE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: By grange and castle when the fields were cool
Last Line: Bearing against his breast the wounded hare.
Subject(s): Animals; Anselm Of Canterbury, Saint (1033-1109); Great Britain - History; Rabbits; English History; Hares


COWDOGS CAUGHT THEIR FIRST JACKRABBIT, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Growling to protect his trophy, the bloody ears
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Nature; Rabbits


COWPER'S THREE HARES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They know not of their mission from above
Last Line: And mix your woodland breath with cowper's sighs.
Subject(s): Animals; Cowper, William (1731-1800); Poetry & Poets; Rabbits; Hares


DONE FOR, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old ben bailey %he's been and done
Last Line: Bound for ben bailey's %smoking pot
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Rabbits


EASTER DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rabbits, chicks, and everything
Last Line: And so—the world keeps easter day!
Subject(s): Animals; April; Easter; Holidays; Rabbits; The Resurrection; Hares


EPITAPH ON A HARE, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, / nor swifter greyhound follow
Last Line: Must soon partake his grave.
Subject(s): Animals; Mourning; Rabbits; Bereavement; Hares


FABLES: 1ST SER. 50. THE HARE WITH MANY FRIENDS, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friendship, like love, is but a name
Last Line: For see the hounds are just in view.
Subject(s): Animals; Friendship; Rabbits; Hares


FEBRUARY: THE BOY BREUGHEL, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The birches stand in their beggar's row
Last Line: A sunrise. The snow.
Subject(s): Animals; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Foxes; Rabbits; Red (color); Violence; White (color); Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Hares


HARE, by DEBORAH RANDALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hare might almost be a concept
Last Line: Up and down the spine, from a time before %words outsped their meaning
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits


HARE-BELLS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ring! The little rabbits' eyes
Last Line: For the bells are dumb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares


HARES AT PLAY, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds are gone to bed, the cows are still
Last Line: Sturts quick as fear, and seeks its hidden lair.
Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Fields; Rabbits; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hares


IN MY GARDEN, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Through a rabbit's ears
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Rabbits; Sun


INTERRUPTION TO A JOURNEY, by NORMAN MACCAIG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hare we had run over
Last Line: It was left in that landscape. %it left us in another
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits


JACKRABBIT, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thrives on the prairie, out in the empty
Last Line: That's why they raise from the wild this wail
Subject(s): Animals; Prairies; Rabbits


JUGGED HARE, by JEAN EARLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: She mourned the long-ears
Last Line: In years to come, %I understood
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits


LARGO, by JOHANNES EDFELT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reverence and fear fill us when we are confronted
Last Line: Clamor and the eternity of absolute silence
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Death - Animals; Hunting; Rabbits


LINES TO A LATE LAMENTED RABBIT, by BILLIE MARIE CRABB    Poem Text                    
First Line: You lie / not where in madcap youth
Last Line: In my protesting stomach!
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares


LOVE FOR A HARE, by MELVIN WALKER LA FOLLETTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nameless, he crept from the hutch of creation
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits


MAKE BARE THE LEG, UNCOVER THE THIGH' IS. 47:2, by ZOE REED    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am faded
Last Line: 11 o'clock. %time runs out
Subject(s): Animals; Insomnia; Rabbits


MARGOT, MY PAGE: MOONLIGHT, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: As an apen quivers, 'gainst this heart of mine be a ray that shivers
Last Line: Dian's archery?
Subject(s): Animals; Moon; Nudity; Rabbits; Nakedness; Hares


MIDNIGHT, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He runs in hnis sleep, snaps, leaps up, without
Last Line: Who know? His next kioll may be his to keep
Subject(s): Rabbits


MOTHER GOOSE (3), by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I saw in the moon
Last Line: I'll drink mine
Subject(s): Moon; Rabbits; Wine


MYXOMATOSIS, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Caught in the centre of a soundless field
Subject(s): Animals; Disease; Rabbits; Hares


MYXOMATOSIS, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Caught in the centre of a soundless field
Last Line: You may have thought things would come right again %if you could only keep quite still and wait
Subject(s): Animals; Disease; Rabbits


NAMES OF THE HARE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The man the hare has met
Last Line: With me: come to me dead %in either onion or bread
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits


NOAH AND THE RABBIT, by HUGH CHESTERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No land,' said noah
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits


PINE TREE TOPS, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the blue night
Subject(s): Night; Pine Trees; Rabbits; Deer; Bedtime; Hares


RABBIT, by GEORGIA ROBERTS DURSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rabbit has a habit
Last Line: Twisting in and out and round about, %as safe as it can be
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits


RABBIT, by EDITH KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Brown bunny sits inside his burrow
Last Line: As down his hidy-hole he dashes %and disappears from sight
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits


RABBIT, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hip-hop hoppity, hip-hop hoppity
Last Line: They let him hear the slightest sounds
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits


RABBIT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I s'pose it takes a feller 'at's be'n
Last Line: Fer eatin' purposes!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Rabbits; Youth; Hares


RABBIT, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snakes have polyvinyl shoulders on their backs
Last Line: And say, damned stupid rabbit -- is much difference between footprints
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits


RABBIT AS KING OF THE GHOSTS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The difficulty to think at the end of day
Last Line: You sit with your head like a carving in space %and the little green cat is a bug in the grass
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Rabbits


RABBIT CRY, by EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The season? Not yet spring. The place
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits


RABBIT HABIT, by BOB MCKENTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fretful little bunny rabbit
Last Line: If you were pregnant every year
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits


RABBIT IS BORN, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The poet just for talk
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Poetry And Poets; Rabbits


RABBIT TRANSIT: THE FIRST SUBWAY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long, long ago, before the ark was freighted
Last Line: And that's the origin of rabbit transit.
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares


RABBITS, by DOROTHY WALTER BARUCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: My two white rabbits
Last Line: With their noses %up and down
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits


SONG OF THE RABBITS OUTSIDE THE TAVERN, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We who play under the pines
Last Line: Under a winter's moon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares


SONNET, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She took the dappled partridge flecked with blood
Last Line: To make my love an immortality.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Love - Nature Of; Partridge; Rabbits; Hares


STORY IN THE SNOW, by PEARL RIGGS CROUCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: This morning, as I walked to school
Last Line: And there within a grassy clump %shone bunny's twinkling eye!
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits


TAME HARE, by NORMAN NICHOLSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She came to him in dreams - her ears
Last Line: Was sweetened by a lunch of docks and lettuce
Variant Title(s): Copwer's Tame Har
Subject(s): Animals; Cowper, William (1731-1800); Poetry And Poets; Rabbits


THE BUNNY BUS, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All aboard the bunny bus
Last Line: Rabbit transit gets you there
Subject(s): Buses; Rabbits


THE BUNNY GIVES US A LESSON IN ETERNITY, by MARY RUEFLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are a sad people, without hats.
Subject(s): Rabbits; Hares


THE COLLAR-BONE OF A HARE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would I could cast a sail on the water
Last Line: Through the white thin bone of a hare.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares


THE DISCOVERY, OR THE SQUIRE TURNED FERRET; BALLAD, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most true it is, I dare to say
Last Line: He still might shew his own.
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares


THE HARE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My hands were hot upon a hare
Last Line: Or need to dread the dreams of night.
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares


THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once on a time a memorable race
Last Line: "the race is not gained—always—by the slow."
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Turtles; Victory; Hares; Tortoises


THE HARES; A FABLE, by JAMES BEATTIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, yes, I grant the sons of earth
Last Line: And all was peace and calm delight.
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares


THE HEARE, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There be the greyhounds! Lo'k! An' there's the heare!
Last Line: On rabbits till his hounds do catch thik heare.
Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Rabbits; Hunters; Hares


THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 3. FEEDING THE RABBITS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He wraps his scarf around my neck
Last Line: That howling will chew up your soul!
Subject(s): Advice; Animals; Bells; Children; Churches; Paranoia; Rabbits; Relationships; Childhood; Cathedrals; Hares


THE HUNTING OF THE HARE, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Betwixt two ridges of plowd- [ploughed-] sat [lay] wat
Last Line: Was made for him, to tyrannize upon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Hunting; Rabbits; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hunters; Hares


THE JUST-BORN RABBITS, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The just-born rabbits in the garden
Last Line: Thy leave to sleep
Subject(s): Rabbits; Hares


THE LITTLE WHITE RABBIT, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: May I go to the field,' said the little white rabbit
Last Line: So run, my little one, run.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Hunting; Man-woman Relationships; Rabbits; Hunters; Male-female Relations; Hares


THE OLD SQUIRE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I like the hunting of the hare
Last Line: In the days ere I was born.
Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Nature; Rabbits; Sussex, England; Hunters; Hares


THE PERENNIAL RABBIT, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The savage by primeval thames
Last Line: In moonlit covers still unplanted!
Subject(s): Animals; Hunting; Rabbits; Hunters; Hares


THE RABBIT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Not even when the early birds
Last Line: To kill him in the morning light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares


THE RABBIT, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hip-hop hoppity, hip-hop hoppity
Last Line: They let him hear the slightest sounds
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares


THE RABBIT, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When they said the time to hide was mine
Last Line: And I looked back very hard at him.
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares


THE SNARE, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear a sudden cry of pain!
Last Line: I am searching everywhere!
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Trapping & Trappers; Hares; Traps; Snares; Trappers


THE SNOWSHOE HARE, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fox / is so quiet
Subject(s): Rabbits; Hares


THE WOUNDED HARE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inhuman man! Curse on thy barbarous art
Last Line: And curse the ruffian's aim, and mourn thy hapless fate.
Variant Title(s): On Seeing A Wounded Hare Limp By Me
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Rabbits; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hares


THE YOUNG MAN FROM PALL MALL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a young man from pall mall
Last Line: And he was eat by a dog in the hall
Subject(s): Animals;dogs;errors;imagination;rabbits; Mistakes;fallacies;fancy;hares


TO A JACK RABBIT, by SQUIRE OMAR BARKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lean, lanky son of desert sage
Alternate Author Name(s): Barker, S. Omar
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits


TO A STARVED HARE IN THE GARDEN IN WINTER, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft-footed stroller from the herbless wood
Last Line: But, hare or robin, it is hunger still.
Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares


TO RALPH LEYCESTER, ESQ. ON HIS SENDING THE AUTHOR A HARE, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What! Another hare, peter! Well so much the better
Last Line: "and then ""to the ladies of toft"" in a bumper."
Subject(s): Animals; Gifts & Giving; Rabbits; Hares


TO RALPH LEYCESTER, ESQ., IN ANSWER TO A LETTER, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear peter, this tells you as soon as it could
Last Line: Of the best of good wishes for the whole of your flock.
Subject(s): Animals; Butchers; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Hunting; Rabbits; Hunters; Hares


UNCLE'S FIRST RABBIT, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was a good boy
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Hunting; Rabbits; Hares


VERSES FROM THE 'ANNALIA DUBRENSIA', by WILLIAM BASSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You faire assemblies that renowne
Last Line: Rarius eveniunt solatia——
Subject(s): Animals; Games; Horseback Riding; Hunting; Rabbits; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Hunters; Hares


WOLF AND THE RABBIT, by ANNA CITRINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ohh,'
Last Line: To be, %cast out, %set free
Subject(s): Animals; Imagination; Rabbits; Wolves