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Subject: CANARIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CANARY AT THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Folks has be'n to town, and sahry
Last Line: A high-priceter cage 'n that!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Canaries; Farm Life; Music & Musicians; Agriculture; Farmers


CANARIES IN UNCLE ARTHUR'S BASEMENT, by ED OCHESTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the white house in rutherford
Last Line: Loved me or loved his skill or both he slowly removed the cover %from a cage and a brilliant gold bi
Subject(s): Birdcages; Canaries


CANARIES!, by BELL LAWRASON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Women are like canaries, born and raised in a pleasant cage
Last Line: But canaries go with antimacassars!
Subject(s): Cages; Canaries; Women


CANARY, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The song of the canaries
Last Line: And when they're moulting %they're pretty revolting
Subject(s): Canaries


CANARY, by FATHER SEBASTIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell me, little winged friar
Subject(s): Canaries


CANARY, by ELIZABETH TURNER (1755-1846)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mary had a little bird
Subject(s): Canaries


MY CANARY BIRD, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did we count great, o soul, to penetrate the themes of mighty books
Last Line: Is it not just as great, o soul?
Subject(s): Canaries


MY CANARY'S RHAPSODY, by ZOE ACKERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet!
Subject(s): Canaries


NURSING HOME: THE CANARY, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this hospital odor
Last Line: Spokes down the hall.
Subject(s): Canaries; Nursing Homes; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living


THE CANARY IN HIS CAGE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing away, ay, sing away
Last Line: "bear it with a cheerful mind."
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Canaries


THE CAPTIVE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I opened the cage of my pet canary
Last Line: The captive sings on its perch to-day.
Subject(s): Cages; Canaries; Freedom; Mirrors; Liberty


THE CLASSIC CANARY ON ITS DEATH, BY A STUDENT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell sweet bird, so winsome and so wise!
Last Line: And leaves thee hopping to the asphodels.
Subject(s): Canaries; Charon; Styx (river)


THE JUDGE AND THE BIRD, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The house was dutch
Subject(s): Houses; Canaries


THE WILD CANARIES, by CLARA P. ENTREKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They came as always at this time of year
Last Line: Their coming proving earth's unbroken law.
Subject(s): Canaries