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Subject: WASPS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AGENT OF LOVE, by A. K. REDWING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Carrying generations of lust on his tiny feet
Last Line: Over lovers fornicating breathlessly in the fields
Subject(s): Wasps


CYDER, SELS., by JOHN PHILIPS                       
Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, John+(1)
Subject(s): Cider; Mnemonics; Wasps


GOLDEN WASP, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blindworm that legless lizard flows along the porch step
Last Line: The dark bat has left my face and is scissoring around in summer's bright space
Subject(s): Wasps


NEW HAMPSHIRE, FEBRUARY, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature had made them hide in crevices
Subject(s): Wasps


POEM FOR ADLAI STEVENSON AND YELLOW JACKETS, by DAVID YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's summer, 1956, in maine, a camp resort
Subject(s): Summer; Time; Fish & Fishing; Wasps; Anglers; Yellow Jackets


RESTLESS GHOST, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wasp's paper nest hung all winter.
Subject(s): Wasps; Ghosts; Yellow Jackets


SWEET ROUMANIAN TONGUE, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Drew down the curse of heaven on her umbrella
Subject(s): Rain; Wasps; Yellow Jackets


TEN MILLS: WASPISH, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On glossy wires artistically bent
Last Line: But he's as good as anybody going
Subject(s): Wasps; Yellow Jackets


THE ANT-LION, by THOMAS MILLER (1807-1874)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By digging a hole in the sand
Last Line: And both of us live by slaughter and strife.
Subject(s): Ants; Insects; Wasps; Bugs; Yellow Jackets


THE BOTTLING OF THE WASP, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wasps were one morning obtrusively gay
Last Line: "in the healthy malt liquor that's sold at the ""crown."
Subject(s): Wasps; Yellow Jackets


THE WASP TRAP, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This moonlight makes
Last Line: So glistening.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Wasps; Yellow Jackets


TO A WASP, by MARY BRODINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: His body bears its purpose plain
Last Line: When that projectile wing is still.
Subject(s): Wasps; Yellow Jackets


TRIOLET, by EMILY JANE (DAVIS) PFEIFFER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Warm from the wall she chose a peach
Last Line: She took the wasps for councillors.
Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches; Wasps; Yellow Jackets


UPON A WASP CHILLED WITH COLD, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bear that breaths the northern blast
Last Line: And heavenly musick, furr'd with praise.
Variant Title(s): Upon A Wasp Child With Cold
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature; Sickness; Wasps; Illness; Yellow Jackets


VICTORY SONG, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I run to the springhouse / to get a cold drink, / I am laughing
Subject(s): Happiness; Wasps; Joy; Delight; Yellow Jackets


WASP, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once as I went by rail to epping street
Subject(s): Animals; Wasps


WASP, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Has built his palace %in a bell
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Nature; Wasps


WASP, by DARYL HINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was a wasp, or an impudent bee
Last Line: Thus deaths, that is the deaths of others, hurt. %it was a wasp
Subject(s): Wasps


WASP, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wasp and all his numerous family
Last Line: But I distrust his waspitality
Subject(s): Wasps


WASP THAT'S LATELY DIED, by DANIEL ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: She came last afternoon to find
Last Line: It will go on like this all night
Subject(s): Wasps


WASPISH, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On glossy wires artistically bent
Last Line: Poor egotist, he has no way of knowing %but he's as good as anybody going
Subject(s): Wasps


WASPS, by DOROTHY ALDIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Wasps


WASPS' NEST, by GEORGE MACBETH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: All day to the loose tile behind the parapet
Last Line: Coming to no sure conclusion, nor axious to come
Subject(s): Wasps