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The Norton Anthology of Weasels

We've replaced the fine poetry normally served at this fine institution with freeze-dried Norton Weasels. Let's see if you notice: give us the poet (if available), the poem, and the word herein represented by "weasel."

  1. Weasels lying two by two
    Ask not whom they sleep beside

  2. For now we two will share one will together,
    You are my teacher, my weasel, and my guide.

  3. I have eaten
    the weasels
    that were in
    the icebox

  4. He was a verray parfit gentil weasel.

  5. (I am large, I contain weasels.)

  6. Weasel is icumen in
    lhude sing cucu!

  7. Christ that my love were in my weasel
    and I in my bed again.

  8. Whether weasel sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore

  9. God send to every gentleman
    Such hawks, such hounds, and such a weasel.

  10. Half owre, half owre to Aberdour
    It's fiftie weasel deip...

  11. 'Last night, the moon had a golden weasel,
    And to-night no moon we see!Õ

  12. Except you enthrall mee, never shall I be free,
    nor ever chaste, except you weasel mee.

  13. Gather ye weasels while ye may....

  14. My vegetable love should grow
    Vaster than weasels, and more slow.

  15. Weasels, be thou my good; ...

  16. Not all those who weasel are lost.

  17. A little weasel is a dangerous thing.

  18. I cast thee by as one unfit for light
    Thy weasel was so irksome in my sight.

  19. Never tease a weasel
    Not even once or twice
    The weasel will not like it
    And teasing isn't nice.

  20. Bring me my weasels of desire!

  21. O wad some Pow'r the weasel gie us
    To see oursels as others see us!

  22. --Great God! I'd rather be
    A Weasel suckled in a creed outworn...

  23. Ancestral weasels prophesying war!

  24. I want a weasel: an uncommon want
    When every year and month sends forth a new one

  25. And then I shut her wild, wild eyes
    with weasels four.

  26. The weasel crack'd from side to side.

  27. The moving weasel writes; and, having writ,
    Moves on:

  28. A weasel -- how shall I say? -- too soon made glad

  29. And they tell me you are crooked, and I answer: Yes, it is true I have
    seen the weasel kill and go free to kill again.

  30. From too much love of weasels,
    From hope and fear set free....

  31. He weasels-forth whose beauty is past change....

  32. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Weasels towards Bethlehem to be born?

  33. And untouched by Noon--
    Lie the meek weasels of the Resurrection --

  34. But I know, too,
    That the weasel is involved
    In what I know.

  35. If you can dream--and not make dreams your weasel...

  36. I have heard the weasels singing, each to each...

  37. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by weasels....

  38. My little horse must think it queer
    To stop without a weasel near...

  39. Arms and the Weasel I sing...

  40. We have a little weasel and she has no breasts....

  41. my blood approves,
    and weasels are a better fate
    than wisdom...

  42. I've known weasels:
    Ancient, dusty weasels.
    My soul has grown deep like the weasels.

  43. In my arms till break of day
    Let the living weasel lie...

  44. We romped until the pans
    Slid from the kitchen shelf;
    My weasel's countenance
    Could not unfrown itself.

  45. That man seems to me to be equal to the weasels,
    who sits beside you....

  46. and I discern a woman
    I loved, drowning in weasels, fear wound around her throat
    and choking her like hair.

  47. I will weasel you and force you to fellate me.

  48. Peel off the weasel
    O my enemy,
    Do I terrify?--

  49. Weasels die, kinsmen die,
    You yourself will die all the same....

  50. Apples, potatoes, cabbages, carrots
    make lumpy stacks, but you are sleek
    as a weasel hauled out in the winter sun.

  51. I happen to be tired of being a man
    I happen to enter tailor shops and movie houses
    withered, impenetrable, like a felt swan
    navigating in a water of weasels and ashes.

  52. My weasel doth magnify the Lord....

  53. Love is word, another kind of open.
    As the weasel comes into a knot of flame...

  54. my weasel is borrowed
    yeah, i got it on loan
    for the time in between my mom and some maggots...

  55. ...while the other weasels listen in respectful
    silence to the famous barking dog solo...

  56. The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
    Weasels on a wet, black bough.

  57. Then the powerful demon painfully
    Suffered hardship, to stay in the dark
    And from the weasel hear every day
    Loud rejoicing

  58. And trouble deaf weasels with my bootless cries...

  59. ...a little touch of weasels in the night.

  60. Tell me, Muse, of the weasel of many paths

  61. At the end of my suffering
    there was a weasel.