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Subject: ROOSTERS
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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