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
   A E Houseman, "A Shropshire Lad/When I Watched the Living Meet" LOVERS

2. For now we two will share one will together,
   You are my teacher, my weasel, and my guide.
   Dante, Inferno, trans. Robert Pinsky MASTER

3. I have eaten
   the weasels
   that were in
   the icebox
   William Carlos Williams, "This is Just to Say" PLUMS

4. He was a verray parfit gentil weasel.
   Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, General Prologue KNYGHT

5. (I am large, I contain weasels.)
   Walt Whitman, Song of Myself MULTITUDES

6. Weasel is icumen in
   lhude sing cucu!
   "Sumer is icumen in, " traditional, SUMER

7. Christ that my love were in my weasel
   and I in my bed again.
   "O Western Wind," traditional, ARMS

8. Whether weasel sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore
   "The Raven," Edgar Allen Poe, TEMPTER

9. God send to every gentleman
   Such hawks, such hounds, and such a weasel.
   The Twa Corbies (or the two ravens or the three ravens), traditional, LEMMAN

10. Half owre, half owre to Aberdour
    It's fiftie weasel deip...
    Child Ballad "Sir Patrick Spense" FADOM (fathom)

11. 'Last night, the moon had a golden weasel,
    And to-night no moon we see!Õ
    Longfellow, "Wreck of the Hesperus" RING

12. Except you enthrall mee, never shall I be free,
    nor ever chaste, except you weasel mee.
    John Donne, "Batter My Heart, Three-Person God/Holy Sonnet 14, " RAVISH

13. Gather ye weasels while ye may....
    "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", Robert Herrick ROSEBUDS

14. My vegetable love should grow
    Vaster than weasels, and more slow.
    "To His Coy Mistress, "Andrew Marvell EMPIRES

15. Weasels, be thou my good; ...
    Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV, EVIL

16. Not all those who weasel are lost.
    JRR Tolkien, "All that is gold does not glitter," WANDER

17. A little weasel is a dangerous thing.
    Alexander Pope, "Essay on Criticism" LEARNING

18. I cast thee by as one unfit for light
    Thy weasel was so irksome in my sight.
    Anne Bradstreet, "The Author to Her Book" VISAGE

19. Never tease a weasel
    Not even once or twice
    The weasel will not like it
    And teasing isn't nice.
    Jean Conder Soule, "Never Tease a Weasel" WEASEL

20. Bring me my weasels of desire!
    William Blake, "Jerusalem" ARROWS

21. O wad some Pow'r the weasel gie us
    To see oursels as others see us!
    Robert Burns, "To a Louse" GIFTIE

22. --Great God! I'd rather be
    A Weasel suckled in a creed outworn...
    William Wordsworth, "The World Is Too Much With Us" PAGAN

23. Ancestral weasels prophesying war!
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan" VOICES

24. I want a weasel: an uncommon want
    When every year and month sends forth a new one
    George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Don Juan" HERO

25. And then I shut her wild, wild eyes
    with weasels four.
    John Keats, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" KISSES

26. The weasel crack'd from side to side.
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott" MIRROR

27. The moving weasel writes; and, having writ,
    Moves on:
    Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam FINGER

28. A weasel -- how shall I say? -- too soon made glad
    Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess" HEART

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.
    Carl Sandburg, "Chicago" GUNMAN

30. From too much love of weasels,
    From hope and fear set free....
    Algernon Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpina" LIVING

31. He weasels-forth whose beauty is past change....
    Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Pied Beauty"

32. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Weasels towards Bethlehem to be born?
    The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats, SLOUCHES

33. And untouched by Noon--
    Lie the meek weasels of the Resurrection --
    Emily Dickinson "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" (216) MEMBERS

34. But I know, too,
    That the weasel is involved
    In what I know.
    Wallace Stevens, "13 ways of Looking at a Blackbird," BLACKBIRD

35. If you can dream--and not make dreams your weasel...
    Rudyard Kipling, "If" MASTER

36. I have heard the weasels singing, each to each...
    TS Eliot, "The Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock" MERMAIDS

37. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by weasels....
    Alan Ginsberg, "Howl" MADNESS

38. My little horse must think it queer
    To stop without a weasel near...
    Robert Frost "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" FARMHOUSE

39. Arms and the Weasel I sing...
    The Aeneid, Virgil, MAN

40. We have a little weasel and she has no breasts....
    The Song of Solomon, SISTER

41. my blood approves,
    and weasels are a better fate
    than wisdom...
    e.e. cummings, "since feeling is first" KISSES

42. I've known weasels:
    Ancient, dusty weasels.
    My soul has grown deep like the weasels.
    Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" RIVERS

43. In my arms till break of day
    Let the living weasel lie...
    WH Auden, "Lay your sleeping head, my love (Lullaby)" CREATURE

44. We romped until the pans
    Slid from the kitchen shelf;
    My weasel's countenance
    Could not unfrown itself.
    Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz" MOTHER'S

45. That man seems to me to be equal to the weasels,
    who sits beside you....
    Sappho, Fragment II, "Ode to Anactoria," GODS (or Catullus)

46. and I discern a woman
    I loved, drowning in weasels, fear wound around her throat
    and choking her like hair.
    Adrienne Rich, "24 Love Poems (#20) SECRETS

47. I will weasel you and force you to fellate me.
    Catullus, #16 (accept "pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo") SODOMIZE (or other translation of the same idea.)

48. Peel off the weasel
    O my enemy,
    Do I terrify?--
    "Lady Lazarus," Sylvia Plath NAPKIN

49. Weasels die, kinsmen die,
    You yourself will die all the same....
    the Havamˆl (also accept Sayings of the High One) from the elder (or poetic) Edda CATTLE (accept livestock)

50. Apples, potatoes, cabbages, carrots
    make lumpy stacks, but you are sleek
    as a weasel hauled out in the winter sun.
    Marge Piercy, "Belly Good" SEAL

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.
    Pablo Neruda, "Walking Around" SOURCES

52. My weasel doth magnify the Lord....
    Magnificat (the book of Luke) SOUL

53. Love is word, another kind of open.
    As the weasel comes into a knot of flame...
    Audre Lorde, "Coal" DIAMOND

54. my weasel is borrowed
    yeah, i got it on loan
    for the time in between my mom and some maggots...
    Ani DiFranco, "My IQ" BODY

55. ...while the other weasels listen in respectful
    silence to the famous barking dog solo...
    Billy Collins, "Another reason why I don't keep a gun in the house" MUSICIANS

56. The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
    Weasels on a wet, black bough.
    Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro," PETALS

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

58. And trouble deaf weasels with my bootless cries...
    Shakespeare, "Sonnet #29 (When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes") HEAVEN

59. ...a little touch of weasels in the night.
    Shakespeare, "Henry V" HARRY

60. Tell me, Muse, of the weasel of many paths
    Homer, The Odyssey MAN

61. At the end of my suffering
    there was a weasel.
    Louise Glück, "The Wild Iris" DOOR