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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SERPENTS Matches Found: 81 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BESTIARY: THE SERPENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A worm thro' the world doth go Last Line: What was given us from on high / let us hold it worthily Subject(s): Animals;snakes; Serpents;vipers A FACE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His face was like a snake's - wrinkled and loose Last Line: And withered. Subject(s): Animals; Old Age; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers A PORTRAIT OF MY ROOF, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My steel roof mirrors clouds Last Line: Unlike anything one finds in reflection Subject(s): Animals; Clouds; Grass; Snakes; Steel; Serpents; Vipers A SCORPION UNDER EVERY STONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "beware the lurking scorpion, friend" Last Line: Leave mysteries alone Subject(s): Animals;snakes; Serpents;vipers A SNAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the swamp with its secrets Last Line: And guile is where it goes. Variant Title(s): Poem: 1740;poem: 1780 Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers A SNAKE ..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snake no bigger Last Line: On the open clasp. Variant Title(s): A Snake Subject(s): Animals; Death; Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers A SNAKE YARN, by W. T. GOODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You talk of snakes,' said jack the rat Last Line: "it was a log!" Alternate Author Name(s): Goodge, William Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Trees; Serpents; Vipers AN AMERICAN LOVE-ODE; TAKEN FROM SECOND VOLUME OF MONTAGNE'S ESSAYS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, stay, thou lovely, fearful snake Last Line: Stay, lovely, fearful adder stay. Subject(s): Animals; Love; Montaigne, Michel De (1533-1592); Snakes; United States; Serpents; Vipers; America ANOTHER COUNTRY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I visited with the porpoises Last Line: That harvest the tuna like wheat Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents COLD-BLOODED CREATURES, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, the egregious egoist Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Mankind; Snakes; Human Race; Serpents; Vipers CROTALUS, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No life in earth, or air, or sky Last Line: To lie, untrodden, in the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you or I should die Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Snakes; Desire; Passion; Adultery; Children; Love; Middle Age; Absence; Relationships; Serpents; Vipers; Childhood; Separation; Isolation FIVE HUNDRED A YEAR, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That gilt middle path, which the poet of rome Last Line: I'd gladly give up my five hundred a year. Subject(s): Animals; Life; Love; Poetry & Poets; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers GEO-BESTIARY: 31, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few long miles up hog canyon Last Line: To my breast, a truly inventive suicide. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Fear; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers GHAZALS: 50, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boot called botte sauvage renders rattlers harmless but they Last Line: Edges are jagged; when cold, the skin peels off the tongue at touch. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Snakes; Women; Serpents; Vipers HOW HARRY KILLED THE SNAKE, by CECIL JAMES KELLY Poem Text First Line: You've heard the tales of droving Last Line: When harry killed the snake. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers HUMPBACKS, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is, all around us Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents IN THE BEGINNING, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF Poem Text First Line: This is how he made the snake Last Line: It was dark of the sixth day. Subject(s): Animals; Creation; God; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers JOHNSON'S ANTIDOTE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down along the snakebite river where the overlanders camp Last Line: Somehow seems to dodge the subject of the snakebite antidote. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Life; Snakes; Camps; Summer Camps; Serpents; Vipers LIZARDS AND SNAKES, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the summer road that ran by our front porch Last Line: And swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail Subject(s): Lizards; Snakes; Family Life; Serpents; Vipers; Relatives MEDALLION, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the gate with star and moon Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers MEDITATIONS OF MAN'S MORTALITIE: ADAM AND EVE, by ALICE SUTCLIFFE Poem Text First Line: Of all the trees that in the garden grew Last Line: And both must dye and turned be to dust. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Eden; Religion; Snakes; Theology; Serpents; Vipers MOUNTAIN WIND, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: Watchful, in a canyon resting Last Line: Hurtling to the sea. Subject(s): Sea Monsters; Storms; Wind; Sea Serpents MY ANGELINE, by HARRY BACHE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She kept her secret well, oh, yes Last Line: My human snake, my angeline! Subject(s): Animals; Marriage; Secrets; Snakes; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serpents; Vipers NO SNAKE, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside my eden I can find no snake. Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray whales are going south: I see their fountains Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents OF A FAIR LADY PLAYING WITH A SNAKE, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that such horror and such grace Last Line: A marble one so warmed would speak. Variant Title(s): To A Fair Lady Playing With A Snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers ON JEAN FRERON, by VOLTAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The other day while in the dale our friend did fare on Last Line: The serpent burst in agony and died of biting! Alternate Author Name(s): Arouet, Francoise Marie Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers ONE USED TO BE ABLE TO SAY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Even pollute the people under his own roof Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents RAVENESQUE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a golden snake Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Religion; Snakes; Nightmares; Theology; Serpents; Vipers REPRISALS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our words were spoken, and our hate found tongue Last Line: But with the hissing of a thousand snakes! Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Hate; Malice; Mankind; Poisons & Poisoning; Snakes; Human Race; Serpents; Vipers SMALL, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boa, once when you were small, you ate small things. Last Line: Never the pinkness and honey of the human Subject(s): Food & Eating; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snake came to my water-trough Last Line: A pettiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY Poem Text First Line: Poor unpardonable length Last Line: And went on creating. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here is the serpent again Variant Title(s): Spring Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE MAN, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I in your company become the hognose snake Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE ON THE ETOWAH, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kicking through woods and fields, I'd spooked several Last Line: The surface, sidling against the current. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKE WOMAN, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was once the snake woman Last Line: Now I'd consider the snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SNAKECHARMER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the gods began one world, and man another, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Eden; Snakes; Music & Musicians; Serpents; Vipers SNAKESKIN, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is only the old yellow shell Subject(s): Snakes; Time; Serpents; Vipers SONG (1), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me in any shape Last Line: Come, my own! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Love; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers SONG OF THE SERPENT-CHARMERS, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come forth, oh snake! Come forth, oh, glittering snake Last Line: It costs thee dear! Subject(s): Animals; India; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers SONG OF THE SNAKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o, snake! Stay, stay, o snake! That my sister" Last Line: "o, snake! Stay, stay, o snake!" Subject(s): Animals;snakes; Serpents;vipers SUICIDES, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ink blot, sperm on a slide, a squirm Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents TANKA DIARY (8), by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Hiking; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE BLACK SNAKE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the black snake / flashed onto the morning road Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE BOY AND THE SNAKE, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Henry was every morning fed Last Line: Then lightly tripping, ran away. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Variant Title(s): The Children And The Snake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE COBRA CAPELLO, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful - yes! For her basilisk eyes Last Line: She'd crumple it, too, like the innocent fan! Subject(s): Animals; Cobras; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Snakes; Male-female Relations; Serpents; Vipers THE COLUBRIAD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close by the threshold of a door nailed fast Last Line: And taught him never to come there no more. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE CROTALUS, by BAILEY MILLARD Poem Text First Line: A coil of browns, a whirr Last Line: Thy chastening rod? Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE DEER AND THE SNAKE, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deer is humble, lovely as god made her Subject(s): Deer; Snakes; Innocence; Serpents; Vipers THE DOUBLE-HEADED SNAKE OF NEWBURY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away in the twilight time Last Line: "the amphisbaena is living still!" Subject(s): Animals; Newbury, Massachusetts; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers 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 FASTIDIOUS SERPENT, by HENRY JOHNSTONE Poem Text First Line: There was a snake that dwelt in skye Last Line: His breakfast, dinner and tea, oh. Subject(s): Animals; Food & Eating; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE GIRL WHO BURIED SNAKES IN A JAR, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came to see the bones Subject(s): Snakes; Death - Animals; Serpents; Vipers THE IMAGINED COPPERHEAD, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without intending to hide, Last Line: And his priesthood. Subject(s): Snakes; Childhood Memories; Imagination; Serpents; Vipers; Fancy THE KILLARNEY SNAKE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is the time come? Is it to-morrow yet? Last Line: Is it not come? Is it to-morrow yet? Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Animals; Killarney (lakes), Ireland; Legends, Irish; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE KRAKEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Below the thunders of the upper deep Last Line: In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sea Monsters; Supernatural; Sea Serpents THE LOVE KISS OF DERMID AND GRAINNE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When by the twilit sea these twain were come Last Line: Far in a phantom dell against a phantom deer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Death; Kisses; Love Affairs; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Snakes; Swallows; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THE MASSASAUGA, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cold coiled line of mottled lead Last Line: Death waits and watches where he lies! Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE MERMAID, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet mermaid of the incomparable eyes Last Line: Oh, no. By jove! There comes the white hippocampus. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Sea Monsters; Ocean; Sea Serpents THE RING OF DEATH, by C. G. A. COLLES Poem Text First Line: Where the bourke comes down to the level plains and junctions with the wills Last Line: When the ancient coorabulkas fought their last great fight of all. Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Animals; Curses; Death; Drought; Magic; Snakes; Water; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THE SEALS IN PENOBSCOT BAY, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hadn't heard of the atom bomb Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents THE SERPENT, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a serpent who had to sing Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SILENT SNAKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The birds go fluttering in the air Last Line: The silent snakes goes creepy-creep! Subject(s): Animals;snakes; Serpents;vipers THE SILKEN SNAKE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For sport my julia threw a lace Last Line: But though it scar'd, it did not bite. Subject(s): Animals; Practical Jokes; Snakes; Pranks; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A narrow fellow in the grass Last Line: And zero at the bone. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snake is the love of a thumb Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love and I, the other day Last Line: "to let it sting one -- don't you think so?" Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't ever make Last Line: Might be awake Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a young snake glide Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKE IT WAS THAT DIED, by DEMODOCUS Poem Text First Line: A viper stung a cappadocian's hide Last Line: And poisoned by his blood that instant died. Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE SNAKES, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the snakes that rowdy saw Last Line: But he thinks of the snakes, andhe lets it go by. Subject(s): Animals; Drinks & Drinking; Hallucinations & Illusions; Snakes; Wine; Serpents; Vipers THE VIPER, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet another great truth I record in my verse Last Line: But after the second you die. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE VIPER, by RUTH PITTER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Barefoot I went and made no sound Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THOR'S FISHING, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy sky and heavy sea, / running cloud and wind-blown crests Last Line: So was lost the midgard snake. Subject(s): Animals; Fish & Fishing; Monsters; Mythology; Snakes; Anglers; Serpents; Vipers TIDE TURNING, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through salt marsh, grassy channel where the shark's Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Seashore; Tides; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents; Beach; Coast; Shore TO THE SNAKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green snake, when I hung you around my neck Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers WAR IS KIND: 11, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: On the desert / a silence from the moon's deepest valley Last Line: Is in the dance of the whispering snakes. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Snakes; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Serpents; Vipers WATER SERPENTS (1), by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the lit silk of your naked body Last Line: The dark sailor's body is found Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Water; Serpents; Vipers WHISPERED LIES, by SARAH SPENCER ROE Poem Text First Line: Their lies / are snakes, which crawl Last Line: Their sting. Subject(s): Animals; False Accusations; Lies; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers |
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