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| Searching... Subject: SPIDERS Matches Found: 94 A BESTIARY: THE SPIDER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some things created they be Last Line: When he worketh upon him ill Subject(s): Insects;spiders; Bugs A DREAM (1), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I was a spider Last Line: And devoured them one by one. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Insects; Spiders; Nightmares; Bugs A GARDEN IDYL, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With sagest craft arachne worked Last Line: A solitary filament. Subject(s): Insects; Mythology; Spiders; Bugs A RAINBOW FOUNDATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once a spider built a cobweb on a rainbow bright and gay Last Line: "with foundations not so showy, but more firm and permanent!" Subject(s): Insects; Rainbows; Spiders; Bugs A SPIDER SEWED AT NIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Did wrestle long and hard — Subject(s): Spiders; Immortality AN EPIPHANY, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the brown recluse spider Subject(s): Spiders ARACHNE, by JODY ALIESAN Poem Source First Line: She was a weaver %what she made was too perfect Last Line: Climbing over warp ties on my loom %they're harmless %but they distract me %and I make mistakes Subject(s): Insects; Spiders ARACHNE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watch her in the corner there Last Line: But day by day I spin my shroud. Subject(s): Fate; Insects; Spiders; Destiny; Bugs ARACHNE, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs ARACHNE, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves Last Line: Male spiders must not be too early slain Subject(s): Insects; Spiders ARACHNE, by DASHKA SLATER Poem Source First Line: Oh, arachne, how many times you appeared in corners Subject(s): Insects; Spiders ARACHNOTATIONS, by LAUREN SMITH Poem Source First Line: In the days of our father's spiderhood Last Line: The spider calls for each of us in our own names Subject(s): Insects; Spiders ASSASSIN, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spider glints Subject(s): Spiders AUTUMN DUSK, AND IN THE GRASS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Drain off the light Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Autumn; Insects; Nature; Seasons; Spiders BLACK LEG OF A SPIDER, by JOHN JOSEPH MCKERNAN Poem Source First Line: Lies in the dead center Last Line: That litters every stop sign in omaha Subject(s): Insects; Spiders CRAWLER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The spider crawls into the bible Last Line: Deep in the book of genesis Subject(s): Bible; Birth; Insects; Rest; Spiders DADDY LONGLEGS, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, on fine long legs springy as steel Subject(s): Spiders DESIGN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found a dimpled spider, fat and white Last Line: If design govern in a thing so small. Subject(s): Death; Fate; God; Insects; Men; Nature; Spiders; Dead, The; Destiny; Bugs DOUBLED MIRRORS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is the dark of the moon Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Raccoons; Spiders; Bugs DOUBLED MIRRORS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is the dark of the moon Last Line: Across immeasurable distance Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Raccoons; Spiders ELEGIAC SONNET: 77. TO THE INSECT OF THE GOSSAMER, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small, viewless aeronaut, that by the line Last Line: Ah! Soon at sorrow's touch the radiant dreams dissolve! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs ELEGY IN A SPIDER'S WEB, by LAURA RIDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What to say when the spider Last Line: What time the spider Alternate Author Name(s): Jackson, Laura Riding Subject(s): Insects; Spiders FAIREST HOME I EVER KNEW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: A manse of mechlin and of floss Variant Title(s): Poem: 1423; Poem: 144 Subject(s): Insects; Spiders FRAM 1403: BLACK WIDOW SPIDER, by BILL GARTEN Poem Source First Line: Latrodectus mactans Last Line: Thing for the hubby you ate last year? Subject(s): Insects; Spiders GRANDMOTHER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A spider floats from the apple tree Last Line: Had proved to be there at all. Subject(s): Comfort; Ghosts; Grandparents; Insects; Spiders; Supernatural; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Bugs HAIKU, by J. W. HACKETT Poem Source First Line: An old spider web Last Line: Sagging full of seeds Subject(s): Insects; Spiders HOMO SAPIENS, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Slightly lower than the arachnid Last Line: Sow the ears with finer lines than silk. Subject(s): Insects; Mankind; Spiders I CAN LIFT GRAVITY'S STERN GLOWER, by LIBBY HOUSTON Poem Source Last Line: Now if I spin much more you'll guess me quick Subject(s): Insects; Riddles; Spiders LYCOSA, THE SPIDER, by ANNIE CHARLOTTE DALTON Poem Text First Line: Hannah, offering her first-born Last Line: For lord or sun? Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs MAGNIFYING GLASS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With this round glass Last Line: Twould seem you'd walk there %in an afternoon! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Insects; Spiders MORNING HARVEST, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pennsylvania spiders / not only stretch their silk between the limbs Subject(s): Civilization; Insects; Pennsylvania; Spiders; Bugs MORNING HARVEST, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pennsylvania spiders %not only stretch their silk between the limbs Last Line: Bringing language and mathematics and religion into darkness Subject(s): Civilization; Insects; Pennsylvania; Spiders MR. EDWARDS AND THE SPIDER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the spiders marching through the air Subject(s): Calvinists; Death; Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); God; Insects; Sin; Spiders; Dead, The; Bugs MR. EDWARDS AND THE SPIDER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the spiders marching through the air Last Line: To die and know it. This is the black widow, death Subject(s): Calvinists; Death; Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); God; Insects; Sin; Spiders MY ABHORRENT FASCINATION, by JOYCE ODAM Poem Source First Line: Handsome spider Last Line: Hides behind %picasso now Subject(s): Insects; Spiders MY PET SPIDER, by INGRID MOE MILLER Poem Source First Line: Dead twenty-four years, I think Subject(s): Insects; Spiders MYTH, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Young theseus makes a mission of his doom Last Line: Where ariadne holds %her cobwebs, ill-advised Subject(s): Insects; Mythology; Spiders NO GO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said a simpering butterfly, sipping a rose Last Line: Quoth the impudent chap. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Spiders; Bugs OF A SPIDER, by WILFRID CHARLES THORLEY Poem Source First Line: The spider weaves his silver wire Last Line: Between the rose-bud and the cherry Subject(s): Insects; Spiders PATIENCE OF THE SPIDER'S WEB, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Is not distubed by dew Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Patience; Spiders PIERCED, SELS., by HANS FAVEREY Poem Source First Line: What it is all about, %I repeat, is Last Line: Started to feel ashamed of myself Subject(s): Insects; Spiders PLAZA DE LA INQUISICION, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spider's body Subject(s): Spiders; Castile, Spain PROGRESS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Web by web the ruined work of spiders Subject(s): Spiders SCUFFLED DUST, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lean white birches of the moon Last Line: What came after I do not know. Subject(s): Apple Blossoms; Apples; Fruit; Insects; Spiders; Virtue; Bugs SILKWORMS AND SPIDERS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The worm long fosters his transforming sleep Last Line: And we must rest, till god shall tell us more. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Worms; Bugs SNARES, by FLORENCE GRAUEL MILLER Poem Text First Line: I watched a spider weave his web Last Line: Came flying to his lair. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Trapping; Bugs SPIDER, by ROBERT PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN Poem Source First Line: With six small diamonds for his eyes Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDER, by WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The web outside the window filled Last Line: And he waits for what the wind will deliver Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDER, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How doth the jolly little spider Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDER, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With what voice Last Line: In this autumn breeze? Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anansi, black busybody of the folktales Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Africa; Fables; Insects; Spiders; Allegories; Bugs SPIDER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anansi, black busybody of the folktales Last Line: Ex machina. Nor did they seem deterred by this Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Africa; Fables; Insects; Spiders SPIDER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This enormous spider isn't moving any more Last Line: And the gloomy thoughts this traveler has brought me Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is a huge spider that cannot crawl farther Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's an enormous spider that no longer moves Last Line: And today when worry that traveler brought me! Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Worry SPIDER AND FLY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once when morn was flowing in Last Line: Sitting on her silver stairs. Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Spiders; Bugs SPIDER HANGS TOO FAR FROM THE GROUND, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source Last Line: Before they bury me Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Spiders SPIDER HOLDS A SILVER BALL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: His boundaries -- forgot Variant Title(s): Poem: 605; Poem: 51 Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDER-CRAB, by DAVID GEORGE Poem Source First Line: A spindly spider-crab with spokes for legs Last Line: But empty now, where once a spider stood Subject(s): History; Insects; Spiders; Stones SPIDERS, by DIANE ACKERMAN Poem Source First Line: The eight-legged aerialists Subject(s): Insects; Spiders SPIDERS, by COLETTE M. BURNS Poem Text First Line: With space their blackboard, spiders teach Last Line: Mathematics of the universe. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs TANKA DIARY (7), by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As guests are arriving I see in a corner Subject(s): Spiders TARANTULA, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm drinking coffee with an olive-skinned woman Last Line: But the memory of the tarantula, its proximity, defeats me Subject(s): Insects; Man-woman Relationships; Spiders THAT SPIDER YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD...', by CHRISTIAN VIREDAZ Poem Source Last Line: The sun gently %sets on fire Subject(s): Insects; Spiders THE FLOWER SPIDER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You've read of a spider, I suppose Last Line: The spider's nature goes! Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs THE IRATE BEE, by IDA L. PADELFORD Poem Text First Line: Devilish squirmy spider Last Line: And push my way clean through. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Spiders; Beekeeping; Bugs THE JEWELS, by MARION J. HEXT Poem Text First Line: This morning, after last night's rain Last Line: They were drops of dew in a spider's web. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs THE JOURNEY, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anghiari is medieval, a sleeve sloping down Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Travel; Spiders; Journeys; Trips THE PARLOR AND THE FLY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will you walk into the spider? Last Line: "he will have no room to spin." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs THE SPIDER, by EDWARD LITTLETON Poem Text First Line: Artist, that underneath my table / thy curious feature hast displayed Last Line: Ends both the spider and the poet. Subject(s): Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Spiders; Wings; Bugs THE SPIDER, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, look at that great ugly spider!' said ann Last Line: "that a poor little spider is wiser than you. " Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs THE SPIDER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a huge spider, which can no longer move Subject(s): Spiders THE SPIDER AND THE BEE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nymph who walks the public streets Last Line: By folly your own schemes undo.' Subject(s): Beauty; Bees; Charm; Desire; Insects; Spiders; Women; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SPIDER AND THE BEE (A TALE FOR THE TIMES), by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He had closed his volume of theorie Last Line: This story one tiny superfluous token. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Philosophy & Philosophers; Spiders; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SPIDER AND THE FLY, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will you walk into my parlor?' said the spider to the fly Last Line: The fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Flattery; Insects; Spiders; Vanity; Bugs THE SPIDER AS AN ARTIST, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I take thee by the hand Subject(s): Spiders THE SPIDER WEB, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: To-night I am very happy Last Line: I have taken long in the spinning. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Weariness; Bugs; Fatigue THE SPINNERS, by ANNE GOODWIN WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: Spider, spinning in the sun Last Line: That flies no more by day! Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs THE STUDY OF A SPIDER, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From holy flower to holy flower Last Line: And from their gibbets take thy dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs THE TOAD AND SPIDER; A DUEL, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a day when the dog-star Last Line: Of his fair aid a monument. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Toads; Bugs THE WEDDING, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At noon, tithonus, withered by his singing Last Line: Woke from the nap, forgetting him; and ate him. Subject(s): Insects; Love - Nature Of; Mythology - Classical; Spiders; Bugs THE WOODTICKS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's things out in the forest Last Line: A-crawlin' thro' yer hair. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Forests; Insects; Spiders; Trees; Worms; Woods; Bugs THOMAS MERTON AND THE WINTER MARSH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went out of the house to smoke. A thousand Last Line: And mother of christ. Subject(s): Ascension Day; Cold; Insects; Merton, Thomas (1915-1968); Spiders; Bugs TO A SPIDER, by JESSIE GRAY SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Oh king of silken fabrics, filmy fine Last Line: What priceless lessons to mankind are taught. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs TO A SPIDER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spider! Thou need'st not run in fear about Last Line: I spin my brains. Subject(s): Insects; Poetry & Poets; Spiders; Bugs TO PIERROT RETURNING TO HIS ORCHID, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spider, with the freckles of a clown Subject(s): Spiders; Orchids TO THE SPIDER, by THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ingenious insect, but of ruthless mould Last Line: Then most delighted, when his prey is man. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Bugs UNAPPRECIATED SPIDER, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source First Line: When the construction of such other sobbing starts Last Line: When the unappreciated spider returns to her window just as a reminder Subject(s): Insects; Spiders UP THE DARK VALLEY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the lean road looping the narrow river Last Line: The birds of darkness sang back every call Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Locusts; Spiders; Bugs UPON A SPIDER CATCHING A FLY, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sorrow, venom elf Last Line: For joy. Subject(s): Flies; Insects; Puritans In Literature; Spiders; Bugs VARIOUS OCCASIONS OF INTEREST IN THE FIELDS AND GARDENS: 40, by FAN CH'ENG-TA Poem Source First Line: He calmly watches a spider weave Last Line: To help them break the siege Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Insects; Spiders WATER SPIDER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But cannot shake the lake Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Insects; Nature; Spiders; Water WEBS, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I weave a web of song to snare Last Line: Will flash a word, a song, a wing. Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Weaving & Weavers; Bugs WHILE YOU WRITE THE TINY...', by CHRISTIAN VIREDAZ Poem Source Last Line: His silk thread like a star Subject(s): Insects; Spiders |
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