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Subject: REPRODUCTION
Matches Found: 18

HALIEUTICA [HALIEUTICKS]: EELS AND TORTOISES, by OPPIAN OF CILICIA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange the formation of the eely race
Last Line: To the loathed duties of an hated bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oppian
Subject(s): Courtship; Eels; Fish & Fishing; Reproduction; Turtles; Mating; Tortoises


IN ANOTHER LIFE, by MIRANDA PEARSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I would have been the mother of twins
Last Line: And nothing %is what I said I wanted
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Reproduction


MATING, by GLADYS MELVILLE INT-HOUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: All night the frenzied unicorn
Last Line: To keep her tryst with him
Subject(s): Reproduction; Sex; Unicorns


PARES CONTINUAS FUTUTIONES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Says our harvard neo malthusian
Last Line: Which seems a licentious conclusion
Subject(s): Reproduction; Mating


PARES CONTINUAS FUTUTIONES, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Says our harvard neo malthusian
Last Line: Which seems a licentious conclusion!
Subject(s): Reproduction


POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 3. OPPOSITION, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Four farmers seen through an open window falling asleep
Last Line: "that letter fly between her knees."" they are drunk."
Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Omens; Reproduction; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Mating


REPLICA, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fake parthenon in nashville, stonehenge reduced by a quarter
Last Line: Everything of which there's one only in the form of its only maker.
Subject(s): Life; Reproduction; Statues; Mating


REPRODUCTION OF A PALM, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: As if my ribcage had been, he said, with a hard, hefty beak
Last Line: The feeling, he said, that I couldn't ever put out this fire
Subject(s): Nature; Palm Trees; Reproduction


RIGHT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The time is right,' she said. 'come on, come on
Last Line: I can bear the bull.'
Subject(s): Reproduction


SIMPLY HUGE, by CAROL J. PIERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though they remain in the uterus
Last Line: A syringe stands stud in the dells
Subject(s): Birth; Calves; Explorers; Reproduction; Science


SONG OF THE QUEEN BEE, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the air is wine and the wind is free
Last Line: That I'll always mate %with whatever drone I encounter
Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B.
Subject(s): Artificial Insemination; Bees; Insects; Reproduction


SQUIRRELS MATING, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In fits and starts around
Last Line: Their chase in fits and starts
Subject(s): Reproduction; Squirrels; Mating


SQUIRRELS MATING, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In fits and starts around
Last Line: Their chase in fits and starts
Subject(s): Reproduction; Squirrels


TERRIBLE TYRANNOSAURUS, by BEN MILDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: How the terrible tyrannosaurus
Last Line: Who should have read masters and johnson
Subject(s): Dinosaurs; Reproduction


THE CONJUGATION OF THE PARAMECIUM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This has nothing
Subject(s): Reproduction; Mating


THE SPEED OF DARKNESS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoever despises the clitoris despises the penis
Subject(s): Sex; Reproduction; Love - Erotic; Mating


TO A GARDEN IN APRIL, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas, and are you pleading now for pardon?
Last Line: You hide in leaf, but oh! Your buds are swelling.
Subject(s): April; Gardens & Gardening; Reproduction; Mating


UNBORN SONG, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rabbits breed, flies breed, said the virgin lady
Subject(s): Reproduction; Mating