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Subject: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES (1785-1851)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AUDUBON, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Audubon perfected a new way of drawing birds that he called his
Last Line: In the second (more affordable) octavo edition (birds of america, 1844)
Subject(s): Audubon, John James (1785-1851)


ON SEEING AUDUBON'S 'BIRDS OF AMERICA', by EBENEZER ELLIOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Painting is silent music.' so said one
Last Line: Thy copied words of god -- when death-struck suns expire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer
Subject(s): Audubon, John James (1785-1851)


WINGED BEAUTY, by VIRGINIA PAULINE SPRIGGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mad audubon, whom failure could not blight
Last Line: And motile beauty, ever on the wing!
Subject(s): Audubon, John James (1785-1851); Beauty; Nature; Ohio River