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Subject: DOLPHINS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BLESSING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beyond the swimmers, the dolphin rises into light
Last Line: Amid seawords seasilences seascreams seasongs.
Subject(s): Blessings; Dolphins; Hope; Sea


DOLPHIN SONG, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your hands on my body
Last Line: My whole body glistens
Subject(s): Dolphins; Marine Animals; Seashore


DOLPHINS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love the river dolphins
Last Line: Through its mirrors %of water
Subject(s): Dolphins; Marine Animals; Seashore


DOLPHINS, by RICHARD HARTEIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who hasn't at some point succumbed
Last Line: Boy drowned at sea
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Dolphins; Environment; Homosexuality; Sea Monsters; Sickness


DOLPHINS, by HAMISH MACLAREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As threads spilling dew-drops
Subject(s): Dolphins; Sea


DOLPHINS, by MOLLY MICHAELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The people waddle on the boat
Subject(s): Dolphins


DOLPHINS IN BLUE WATER, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey! Crackerjack - jump!
Subject(s): Dolphins; Porpoises


DOLPHINS IN BLUE WATER, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hey! Crackerjack - jump!
Subject(s): Dolphins


FIRST TIMES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first time she saw the dolphin
Last Line: For the first time
Subject(s): Devil; Dolphins; Swimming


HALIEUTICA [HALIEUTICKS]: DOLPHINS, by OPPIAN OF CILICIA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dolphins were men, (tradition hands the tale)
Last Line: Of casual harms, and guilty floods beware, %move cautious onbehind, and guard the rear
Alternate Author Name(s): Oppian
Subject(s): Dolphins


LEAPING DOLPHINS, by FRANCESC PARCERISAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dolphins leaping at prows in tagomago's
Last Line: Of men's rare happiness
Subject(s): Dolphins; Marine Animals; Sea


LIKE THE DANCE OF THE DOLPHIN IN THE OCEAN, by LOURDES ESPINOLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I could appear
Last Line: Like the dance of the dolphin in the ocean
Subject(s): Dolphins; Sea


ONE HUNDRED WHITE-SIDED DOLPHINS ON A SUMMER DAY, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fat / black, slick
Subject(s): Dolphins; Porpoises


PORPOISE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every year, when we're fly-fishing for tarpon
Last Line: They alter the universe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dolphins; Porpoises


PORPOISE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I kind of like the playful porpoise
Last Line: Why they like swimmin like I like golphin
Subject(s): Dolphins


RIVERMAN, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I got up in the night
Last Line: The dolphin singled me out; %luandinha seconded it
Subject(s): Brazil; Dolphins; Witchcraft And Witches


THE LAST SONG OF ARION, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look not upon me thus impatiently
Last Line: Farewell to light,—to life,—to love,—to thee.
Subject(s): Arion (7th Century B.c.); Dolphins; Homecoming; Legends, Greek; Porpoises


THE RIVERMAN, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I got up in the night
Last Line: Luandinah seconded it
Subject(s): Brazil; Dolphins; Witchcraft & Witches; Brazilians; Porpoises