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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SKULLS Matches Found: 42 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BUFFALO SKULL, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No fine white bone-sheen now Subject(s): Skulls ASHFALL FOSSIL BEDS, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Once, long ago, in what is now idaho Last Line: Needed only to die down for it to fall Subject(s): Abandonment; Bones; Fossils; Skulls BUFFALO SKULL, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No fine white bone-sheen now Subject(s): Skulls CASUALTIES: 2. SKULLS AND CUPS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look up, %how do you tell a skull Last Line: Broken up the fields after nsukka' Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Nigerian Civil War; Skeletons; Skulls DEATH - ETERNITY'S REALM, by LOUISE L. PANNULLO Poem Text First Line: Peacefully yonder a million souls did sleep Last Line: "do I exempt from my field—where eternity I do sow." Subject(s): Death; Graves; Peace; Rest; Skulls; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ELEGY ON AN X-RAY PHOTO OF MY SKULL, by ELENA SHVARTS Poem Source First Line: The flautist boasts but god's enraged Last Line: But what a shame you won't be filled again %with all that soft old curd Subject(s): Skulls; X-rays ESSAY: 13 PRESSURE POINTS INSIDE THE SKULL, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: (I was) (previously) incapable of establishing a link between one phenomenon & Last Line: I wrote recognition to perform in Subject(s): Bones; Essays; Skulls HOMO SAPIENS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a morning moon the color of cream Last Line: A residue still too ancient to name Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Creation; Evolution; Skulls; Wilderness LEVIATHAN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leviathanic natures, / huge-browed, vast-spined Last Line: Of time and night. Subject(s): Death; Sea; Skulls; Dead, The; Ocean LINES INSCRIBED UPON A CUP FORMED FROM A SKULL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Start not - nor deem my spirit fled Last Line: This chance is theirs, to be of use. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Cups; Skulls LUNCHTIME LECTURE, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source First Line: And this from the second or third millenium Last Line: Gulping the risen sea that booms in the shell Subject(s): Skulls; War MAMMON MARRIAGE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The croak of a raven hoar! Last Line: On the dead-sea-shore. Subject(s): Brides; Death; Marriage; Ravens; Skulls; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEDITATION OVER A SKULL, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this strange cup of ivory, love-wrought Last Line: For I shall live in them that drink my wine! Subject(s): Skulls; Vines And Vineyards MORNING PAPER, SOCIETY PAGE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can never see fashion models Last Line: A coming style. Subject(s): Fashion; Models; Skulls MUSTARD SEED, by JOHN ALLMAN Poem Source First Line: Look at this. A cat scan of a hominid skull Last Line: Led to the great forest and sweet warbling Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Skulls ON A DEATH'S HEAD, by ELIZABETH TOLLET Poem Text First Line: On this resemblance, where we find / a portrait drawn from all mankind Last Line: For all that's beautiful or dear. Subject(s): Love; Skulls ON A DEATH'S-HEAD, COVERED WITH COBWEBS ... SAID TO BE SKULL OF A KING, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This mortal spoil which so neglected lies Last Line: Your bones with those of common subjects rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Skulls PARTIAL SKULL, by ANSIE BAIRD Poem Source First Line: After the divorce, my mother %kept a skull on her mantelpiece Last Line: It too having been discarded %with half a life Subject(s): Skulls PERFECT; ON THE WESTERN SEABOARD OF SOUTH UIST, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a pigeon's skull on the machair Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Jones, Glyn (b. 1905); Pigeons; Skulls PERFECT; ON THE WESTERN SEABOARD OF SOUTH UIST, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a pigeon's skull on the machair Last Line: That fixed the tilt of the wings Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Jones, Glyn (b. 1905); Pigeons; Skulls PICKING SKULLS AT VERDUN, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A respectable, exceedingly proper paper reports Last Line: Who always see the folly when it is too late! Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Skulls; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SEVEN POEMS: 3, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, we are cutting out Last Line: Half-recognizable things Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Reason; Skulls SKULLS, by GROVER AMEN Poem Source First Line: Poking in stark november through shreds and splinters of light Last Line: Dance, to kick a saint's skull in stark november, and deserve it Subject(s): November; Skulls SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#2), by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, said a piece of tree bark in the wind, and the night froze Last Line: Colorful yarmulke that lifted the high holy days Subject(s): Skulls; Jews THE GIFT OF A SKULL, by JOHN SKELTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your ugly token / my mind hath broken Last Line: Amen. Variant Title(s): Upon A Dead Man's Head Subject(s): Mortality; Skulls THE LEAPING POLL, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: At early morning when the earth grows cold Last Line: Looking for death. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Cremation; Death; Skulls; Dead, The THE MOUNTAIN OF SKULLS, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All guns are silent - 'I have won,' he saith Last Line: Go quietly, all our days. Subject(s): Skulls; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War THE PLACE OF A SKULL', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O seat of pain! Whence agony Last Line: Centre and calmly rest in thee Subject(s): Skulls THE U. S. SAILOR WITH THE JAPANESE SKULL, by WINFIELD TOWNLEY SCOTT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bald-bare, bone-bare, and ivory yellow: skull Subject(s): Skulls; World War Ii; Second World War TO A SKULL, by DAISY WRIGHT FIELD Poem Text First Line: Why laughest thou, perched there among the books Last Line: His one great joke in death -- that sets us free! Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Wright Subject(s): Death; Skulls; Dead, The TO A SKULL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn your face this way Last Line: You do grin so satisfied! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Skulls; Dead, The TO THE KINGS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you've fulfilled the measure of your pride Last Line: And shake your kingdoms with its irony! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Irony; Skulls; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The TO THE PLIOCENE SKULL, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak, o man, less recent! Fragmentary fossil! Last Line: "home to old missouri!" Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Geology; Skulls TONGUE-TIED, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: Tongue-tied or stuttering Last Line: Sustained only by these errors Subject(s): Death; Graves; Skulls TONGUELESS LINES, by PAT MERNAGH Poem Text First Line: Look at it now Last Line: Look at it now! Subject(s): Skulls TUTELARY, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a fuckup you are Subject(s): Conscience; Death; Skulls; Dead, The TUTELARY, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a fuckup you are Last Line: Praise for your skill Subject(s): Conscience; Death; Skulls U. S. SAILOR WITH THE JAPANESE SKULL, by WINFIELD TOWNLEY SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bald-bare, bone-bare, and ivory yellow: skull Last Line: Sailor boy who thinks of home, voyages laden, will %not say, 'alas! I did not know him at all' Subject(s): Skulls; World War Ii UGOLINO, FR. INFERNO: CANTO 33, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I awake before the dawn, my head Last Line: Bit into the skull and again took hold Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Variant Title(s): The Flight Path: Subject(s): Death - Children; Hunger; Skulls WHEN HE LOOKED, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Why, when he looked at her beautiful Last Line: Did he see a skull? Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Skulls YARDBIRD'S SKULL, by OWEN DODSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bird is lost Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Skulls; Negroes; American Blacks YARDBIRD'S SKULL, by OWEN DODSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bird is lost Last Line: Come sing, come sing, come sing sing %and sing Subject(s): African Americans; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955); Skulls |
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