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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RATS Matches Found: 56 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A RAT TRAP, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Onct erbout de hour uv midnight, stealin' chick-/ens by de dim light Last Line: En step on 'em—nebber more. Subject(s): African Americans; Rats; Trapping & Trappers; Negroes; American Blacks; Traps; Snares; Trappers ALPHABESTIARY: R, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: R is for rat, the noise in man's wall Last Line: Don't start saving words till you learn to select Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Rats AMORIS EXSUL: 4. THE RAT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain gnaws at my heart like a rat that gnaws at a beam Last Line: He stirs the dust where the feet of my dreams had passed. Subject(s): Pain; Rats; Suffering; Misery AN INCONVENIENCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To his cousin the bat Last Line: "but nothing to sit on have I." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Rats AN OLD RAT'S TALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He was a rat and she was a rat Last Line: "but what befell them I never can tell, / for they never came back again" Variant Title(s): What Became Of Them? Subject(s): Rats ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy doolin, first day on the job, stroked his goatee Subject(s): Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Rats; Murder; Fathers & Sons; Conduct Of Life; Memory; Youth; Relationships AUTOPHAGIA IN TRAUMATIZED RATS DURING INANITION, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Carroll blue nash and his traumatized rats Last Line: (nash said) themselves 'from this source' Subject(s): Animals; Nature; Rats; Science BATTLE BETWEEN THE RATS AND WEAZLES, SELS., by ANNE FINCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In dire contest the rats and weazles met Last Line: The feather in the cap was fatal to the head Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Rats BISHOP HATTO [AND THE RATS], by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer and autumn had been so wet Last Line: For they were sent to do judgment on him! Variant Title(s): God's Judgment On A Wicked Bishop;the Legend Of Bishop Hatto;god's Judgment On A Bishop Subject(s): Hatto I, Archbishop Of Mentz (850-913); Legends, German; Rats; Tragedy BOSS RAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Boss rat, boss rat Last Line: Where we won't always have to groan Subject(s): Rats CLASSIC OF POETRY: 93, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Huge rat, huge rat Last Line: Happy meadows, happy meadows %where none need wail and cry Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Politics; Rats DOCK RATS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are human beings who seem to regard Last Line: Most interesting thing in the world. Subject(s): Rats FOUR PRELUDES ON PLAYTHINGS OF THE WIND, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman named tomorrow Last Line: And the women warbled: nothing like us ever was. Subject(s): Past; Rats GONE TO HER HEAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there was a young lady, quite rich" Last Line: Had fallen asleep at the switch Subject(s): Animals;heads;rats HARVEST, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few rats are gnawing Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Rats; Food & Eating HELLO, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some nights / the rat with pointed teeth Subject(s): Rats HELLO, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some nights %the rat with pointed teeth Last Line: And all the rats are waving hello Subject(s): Rats HOLES BORED IN A WORKBAG BY THE SCISSORS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A neat, round hole in the bank of the creek Last Line: Voids. Subject(s): Rats HOW TO EXTERMINATE RATS, by JAMES GRAINGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nor with less waste the whisker'd vermin race Subject(s): Mnemonics; Rats IN PITTSFIELD, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rat came on stage Last Line: Which didn't figure in the play Subject(s): Rats LADY WITH THE LAMP (1820-1910), by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: The dead presided everywhere, colossi Last Line: Which you'll love, even as you choke on it Subject(s): Crimean War (1853-1856); Egypt; Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910); Nurses; Rats LIMITS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who knows this or that Last Line: Is cruelty to thy cruelty. Subject(s): Rats LITTLE CITIZEN, LITTLE SURVIVOR, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A brown rat has taken up residence with me Last Line: Lend me your presence, and I will lend you mine. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Rats; Estrangement; Outcasts NEAR RATS AND THE DEVIL, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK Poem Source First Line: The women of taylor, pennsylvania, watched at windows Last Line: Relieved to be intact, yet blinking, weak, and homeless as an %unearthed rat Subject(s): Rats NOTE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rat came on stage Subject(s): Rats NOTE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rat came on stage Last Line: Where someone hit him, %in earnest, %once, and then twice more, %with a heavy object Subject(s): Rats PACK RAT, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pack rat's day is spent at play Last Line: He does it as his hobby Subject(s): Pack Rats RAT (A PARAPHASE). SANS EQUITY AND SANS POISE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A rat too has a skin (to tan) Last Line: A man without courtesy %might quite as well cease to be Subject(s): Rats RAT (CLOSE TRANSLATION), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Look: rat has skin Last Line: Should die! Hurry up! Subject(s): Rats RAT SONG, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you hear me singing Subject(s): Rats RAT SURRENDERED HERE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Repugnantly resigned %at last Variant Title(s): Poem: 1340; Poem: 137 Subject(s): Rats; Temptation RATS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A house has rotten places: cellar walls Last Line: Fallen to dust, and droppings, and dry clues Subject(s): Rats RATS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A house has rotten places: cellar walls Last Line: Where we pretend we're clean and all alone Subject(s): Rats RATS AT ALLATOONA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the lake the stars scatter their crumbs of light Last Line: The lobe of an ear. Subject(s): Camping; Rats; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Camps; Summer Camps RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After adam broke his rib in two Last Line: Like a watermelon Subject(s): God; Religion; Rats; Theology REAPERS, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Subject(s): Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Rats; Seasons; Lawn Mowers REAPERS, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Last Line: His belly close to ground. I see the blade, %blood-stained, continue cutting weeds and shade Subject(s): Harvest; Mowing And Mowers; Rats; Seasons SHARING LODGING WITH HSIEH SHIH-HOU ..., by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source Last Line: My little son mimics a cat's miaowing, %and that's a silly solution for sire! Subject(s): Rats SHELTER, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the wide lake's margin I mark'd her lie Last Line: For she was a water-rat. Subject(s): Rats SONG OF A RAT: 1. THE RAT'S DANCE, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rat is in the trap, it is in the trap Last Line: The rat uderstands suddenly. It bows and is still, %with a little beseeching of blood on its nose-en Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Rats SONG OF A RAT: 2. THE RAT'S VISION, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rat hears the wind saying something in the straw Last Line: Forcing the rat's head down into godhead Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Rats SONG OF A RAT: 3. THE RAT'S FLIGHT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heaven shudders, a flame unrolled like a whip Last Line: While it supplants hell Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Rats SOUND OF A RAT, by YOSA BUSON Poem Source First Line: Scampering over saucers Last Line: Cold, cold Alternate Author Name(s): Buson; Taniguchi Buson Subject(s): Rats THE ENVOY, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day in that room, a small rat. Last Line: Long-legged and thirsty, covered with foreign dust Subject(s): Rats; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE EXPERIMENT WITH A RAT, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every time I nudge that spring Last Line: Into my power? Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Rats THE PACK RAT, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pack rat's day is spent at play Last Line: He does it as his hobby Subject(s): Pack Rats THE PET, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope gnawed at my heart like a hungry rat Last Line: Rats leave the sinking ship, they say. Subject(s): Rats THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hamelin town's in brunswick Last Line: If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise. Subject(s): Mysticism; Rats; Revenge THE RAT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That woman there is almost dead Last Line: "they'll soon see who was left at home." Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Rats THE RAT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rat is the concisest tenant Last Line: Equilibrium. Subject(s): Rats THE RAT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As often as he let himself be seen Last Line: Say less of rats and rather more of men. Subject(s): Rats THE RAT WHO WITHDREW FROM THE WORLD, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Among levantine legends you maye find Last Line: For I take it a monk is all loving charity. Subject(s): Fables; Rats; Solitude; Allegories; Loneliness THIS FUN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Two rats play with each other Last Line: Played in his blood Subject(s): Details; Gratitude; Memory; Rats THREE YOUNG RATS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Three young rats with black felt hats Last Line: "but suddenly it chanced to rain, / and so they all went home again" Subject(s): Rats TRADUITS DE LA NUIT: 2, by JEAN-JOSEPH RABEARIVELO Poem Source First Line: What invisible rat Last Line: The rat will have carried her into his hole Subject(s): Rats YEAR OF THE RAT, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: For days sirens hurl winding shrieks Last Line: They dance the dance they dance Subject(s): Disease; Fever; Hospitals; Native Americans - Reservations; Plague; Public Health; Rats |
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