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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ROOSTERS Matches Found: 40 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BRAGGING IN THE BARNYARD, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: The rooster is ridiculous Last Line: We often do mistake him for %a chicken a la king Subject(s): Roosters BUT THEN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rooster crying Last Line: And his flock awaits. Subject(s): Roosters; Cocks CHANTICLEER, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: High and proud on the barnyard fence Last Line: I wonder if her keeps a clock, %or if he's only guessing Subject(s): Roosters CHANTICLEER, by MARGARET IRVIN Poem Source First Line: Chanticleer makes canticles Subject(s): Roosters CHANTICLEER, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake! I feel the day is near Last Line: With gladness overflowing Subject(s): Roosters CHANTICLEER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the birds from east to west Last Line: He summons back the light! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Morning; Roosters; Cocks CHICK-A-ROOSTER, by HENRY CROCKER Poem Text First Line: Oho! Little rooster! Last Line: Have learned how to crow. Subject(s): Roosters; Cocks CLAY, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: Beasts of clay. Birds of salt. Humans of iron Last Line: Hollowing out each other's cheeks Subject(s): Birds; Roosters; Survival COCK, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The kindly cock is the fairies' friend Subject(s): Roosters COCK AGAIN, by KIKAKU Poem Source Last Line: See his mane! Subject(s): Roosters COCK CROWING IN A POULTERER'S SHOP, by JOHN FERGUSON Poem Source First Line: He will not see the east catch fire again Subject(s): Roosters COCK-CROW, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS Poem Source First Line: This is how to speed a night Subject(s): Roosters COCK-CROWING, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father of lights! What sunny seed Last Line: Though with no lily, stay with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Roosters; Cocks FOR A COCK, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Strutting cock, with swelling chest Variant Title(s): The Coc Subject(s): Roosters HENHOUSE, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hens, arriving early from the day's pickings Last Line: Her fluttering eyelids shutting out the world Subject(s): Farm Life; Hens; Roosters; Sleep HUSH, ROOSTER, by SONG-I Poem Source First Line: Hush, rooster -- boasting as though Last Line: Yet, you yell of escape Subject(s): Roosters I HAVE A GENTLE COCK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I have a gentle [gentile] cock [cok] [cook] Last Line: And every night he percheth him / in my [mine] lady's [ladye's] chamber [chaumber] Subject(s): Roosters; Cocks MEXICAN NURSERY RHYME: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The rooster rises early Last Line: "I do not like your laziness!" Subject(s): Roosters; Cocks ON A COCK AT ROCHESTER, by CHARLES SEDLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou cursed cock, with thy perpetual noise Subject(s): Curses; Hate; Roosters; Cocks ON A COCK AT ROCHESTER, by CHARLES SEDLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou cursed cock, with thy perpetual noise Last Line: Thou first and worst disturber of man's rest Subject(s): Curses; Hate; Roosters OZARK ODES: JUDGE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Had a boyhood. Had his own rooster. Name of andy Last Line: Made him bald. This really vexed judge's old daddy Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Pets; Roosters RED ROOSTER, by JOYCE SUTPHEN Poem Source First Line: It hung from a wire above your head Last Line: These images meant everything to you, nothing to me Subject(s): Roosters RIDDLE, by BRIAN SWANN Poem Source First Line: Trousers rolled to his knees Last Line: Made without thread Subject(s): Riddles; Roosters ROOSTER, by IBN BILLITA Poem Source First Line: Up he stands Last Line: His strut from a duck Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Billita, Al-as'as Ibrahim Subject(s): Roosters ROOSTER, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rooster has a soul more bellicose Last Line: As he swaggers by with his hands in his pockets Subject(s): Roosters ROOSTER; TO PAT RYAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have to kill the rooster tomorrow. He's being an asshole Last Line: Doesn't matter and he will wag his head, strut, perhaps crow. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Roosters; Dead, The; Cocks ROOSTERS, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: At four o'clock / in the gun-metal blue dark Subject(s): Roosters; Cocks ROOSTERS, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At four o'clock %in the gun-metal blue dark Last Line: Faithful as enemy, or friend Subject(s): Roosters THE COCK, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: In the black hour the friendly cock did cry Last Line: A frozen sun to gild the frozen bough. Subject(s): Roosters; Time; Cocks THE COCK, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before a clock was in the tower Last Line: The oldest chronicler of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Roosters; Time; Cocks THE COCK AND THE FOX, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a tree there mounted guard Last Line: Tis doubly sweet deceiver to deceive. Subject(s): Brothers; Fables; Quarrels; Relationships; Roosters; Half-brothers; Allegories; Arguments; Disagreements; Cocks THE COCK OF THE CHARCOAL BURNER, by ANDRE SALMON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thin black cock of the charcoal burner Last Line: Go tell it to the birds. Subject(s): Birds; Roosters; Wings; Cocks THE FIGHTING COCKS; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fine old cock -- a cock renowned Last Line: E'en from themselves, their wounded pride! Subject(s): Roosters; Cocks THE HEATH-COCK, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good morrow to thy sable beak Last Line: Thou art already on the wing. Variant Title(s): The Black Cock Subject(s): Birds; Roosters; Snowdon (mountain), Wales; Cocks THE WHITE ROOSTER, by GEORGE O'NEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, god! To have a breast like that Last Line: As fine as fire? Subject(s): Roosters; Cocks THERE IS JUST ONE OF US, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Old rooster crowing with a stretched neck Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Roosters TO BE OR NOT TO BE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I sometimes think I'd rather crow Last Line: So mebby roosters stand more show. / it looks that way. But I dunno Variant Title(s): Crows And Roosters Subject(s): Roosters; Cocks TWO VIEWS OF IT, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the daybreak, in the murky night Last Line: Within my lamp or heart, of dawning day. Subject(s): Dawn; Light; Roosters; Sunrise; Cocks UNCLE JOHN FIDDLER, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked down on greasy, greasy Last Line: To hear the lord himself afiddling. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Farm Life; Roosters; Agriculture; Farmers; Cocks VILLAGES, by CORRADO GOVONI Poem Source First Line: From the white campanile a cannonade Last Line: Amid the ranks of burgeoning wheat, take hope Subject(s): Animal Rights; Italian Renaissance; Pigs; Roosters |
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