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Subject: DINOSAURS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GEOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lurid volcanoes were guarding the pole
Last Line: Where they wait them the dragon and ichthyosaur!
Subject(s): Death; Dinosaurs; Fossils; Geology; Nature; Volcanoes; Dead, The


DEPARTURES, by JANET HOLMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: How many thousands of years ago it left (or tried to leave;
Last Line: You protest, squinting at your own face. - but it is
Subject(s): Air Travel; Dinosaurs; Fossils


DINOSAUR, by BONNIE HEARN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You came %nourished by
Last Line: Hang on %for dear life
Subject(s): Dinosaurs


DINOSAUR, by CARL S. JUNGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dinosaur %a beast of yore
Last Line: Any more
Subject(s): Dinosaurs


DINOSAUR NATIONAL, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jewelers, / in goggles and buttercup hardhats,
Last Line: Footprints, as they passed in the ashes.
Subject(s): Archeology; Dinosaurs; Fossils; Mothers


DINOSAUR SPRING, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A violet wash is streaked across the clouds
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Dinosaurs


DINOSAUR SPRING, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A violet wash is streaked across the clouds
Last Line: At the bottom of the sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Dinosaurs


DINOSAURS, by CAROLYN STOLOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: We cannot trap them in our zoo, oh. No!
Last Line: They are our steady progress and the lack of it
Subject(s): Dinosaurs


DINOSAURS, by VALERIE WORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dinosaurs %do not count
Last Line: In everybody's %head
Subject(s): Dinosaurs


IN THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, by SIV CEDERING    Poem Source                    
First Line: My getting locked in the museum of natural history was no accident
Last Line: Write
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Dinosaurs; History; Museums


LONG GONE, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't waste your time in looking for
Subject(s): Animals; Dinosaurs


LONG GONE, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't waste your time in looking for
Last Line: They all lived here before us
Subject(s): Animals; Dinosaurs


NATURAL HISTORY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish I knew the reason for
Subject(s): Dinosaurs


PRE-HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, by BOB MCKENTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dinosaur died, was consumed by the soil
Last Line: May rise from their ashes in ten million years
Subject(s): Automobiles; Dinosaurs; Petroleum


REQUIEM TO THE DINOSAURS AND MASTODONS, by UBADAH IBN MA' AL-SAMA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here roots a glebe of rough mesquite
Last Line: Was dear to her who sleeps.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ubada; Ubada, Muhammed Ibn
Subject(s): Amphibians; Bones; Dinosaurs; Skeletons


REX STEGOSARUS, by MARVIN E. HARVEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Createous beast, I see against the sky
Last Line: A knowledge of the mighty reptile king.
Subject(s): Dinosaurs; Evolution


SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE DINOSAUR STOMP, by CAROL DIGGORY SHIELDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Word went out 'cross the prehistoric slime
Last Line: But they'll be back -- next dinosaur stomp!
Subject(s): Dinosaurs; Parties


SO BIG!, by MAX FATCHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dinosaur, an ancient beast
Last Line: I'm glad he lived so long ago %and didn't live in my day!
Subject(s): Dinosaurs


TERRIBLE TYRANNOSAURUS, by BEN MILDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: How the terrible tyrannosaurus
Last Line: Who should have read masters and johnson
Subject(s): Dinosaurs; Reproduction


THAT FIND OF LONGISQUAMA INSIGNIS, by PETER READING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oldest known feathered fossil evidence
Last Line: Enabling first flight?... %sunt aliquid manes
Subject(s): Birds; Dinosaurs; Flight


THE AGE OF DINOSAURS, by JAMES SCRUTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are, of course, theories
Subject(s): Dinosaurs


THE DINOSAURS' EGG, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: One morn in old mongolia
Last Line: The eggs that never hatched.
Subject(s): Dinosaurs; Eggs


THE KNIGHT AND THE DRAGON, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the famous old times
Last Line: "that the dragon had vanquish'd sir otto!"
Subject(s): Dinosaurs