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Subject: DONKEYS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BIG FRIEND OF THE STONES, by STEPHEN ORLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The donkey doctor came covered with rain
Last Line: From the jug. The door to our house %was open. The dog slept on the hearth %I sneezed again and it w
Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve
Subject(s): Donkeys; Poetry And Poets


BURROS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The burros lazily infest the mountain
Last Line: With tears. No beast can be a standing jest, and find in life much joy or zest,
Subject(s): Animals; Donkeys; Horses; Burros


BURROS, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The burros soak in the sun
Last Line: They shall be standing between rimrock and sky.
Subject(s): Donkeys; Sante Fe, New Mexico; Burros


CLANCY THE BURRO'S FIRST DAY IN HEAVEN, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He wakens on bright straw
Subject(s): Donkeys; Burros


DONKEY, by ROSE FYLEMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My donkey has a bridle
Subject(s): Donkeys


DONKEY, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a donkey, that was all right
Subject(s): Donkeys


DONKEY RIDING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Were you ever in quebec
Last Line: Riding on a donkey
Subject(s): Donkeys


DONKEYS, FR. THE SILVER SPOON, by JOHN GALSWORTHY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When to god's fondouk the donkeys are taken
Last Line: "for god's own forsaken -- the stable of peace!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Donkeys; Burros


ELEGY FOR WRIGHT & HUGO, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Saint jerome lived with a community
Last Line: He was a saint. It was like that...
Subject(s): Animals; Donkeys; Hugo, Richard (1923-1982); Jerome, Saint (347-419); Lament; Lions; Wright, James (1927-1980); Burros


IF I HAD A DONKEY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I had a donkey wot wouldn't go
Last Line: "if I had a donkey, etc"
Subject(s): Cruelty;donkeys; Burros


JACK A, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The donkey is an ani-mule
Last Line: And if, of course, you call him jack, %don't mention his last name
Subject(s): Donkeys


KERR'S ASS, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We borrowed the loan of kerr's big ass
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Subject(s): Donkeys; Burros


KERR'S ASS, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We borrowed the loan of kerr's big ass
Last Line: And the god of imagination waking %in a mucker fog
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Subject(s): Donkeys


LITTLE CHRISTMAS DONKEY, by GERALDINE FARRAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Great herod on his golden throne
Last Line: Remember how he served our lord, %and never use him ill
Subject(s): Donkeys; Herod The Great (73-4 B.c.); Jesus Christ


LITTLE DONKEY, by FRANCIS JAMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The little donkey pulls its cart
Subject(s): Christmas; Donkeys


MY BURRO AND I, by EDA D. FLAGG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little we want, my burro and I
Last Line: We lie down together, my burro and I.
Subject(s): Donkeys; Burros


NONSENSE RHYMES: 12, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A-e-I-o-u- / the burro too
Last Line: Knows more than you
Subject(s): Donkeys;nonsense; Burros


NONSENSE RHYMES: 18, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A-b-c-d / where can the burro be?
Last Line: Of aunt merced
Subject(s): Donkeys;nonsense; Burros


PRAYER OF THE DONKEY, by CARMEN BERNOS DE GASZTOLD    Poem Source                    
First Line: O god, who made me
Last Line: All danger is driven away
Subject(s): Animals; Christmas; Dogs; Donkeys


PRAYER TO GO TO PARDISE WITH THE DONKEYS, by FRANCIS JAMMES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I must come to you, o my god, I pray
Last Line: Whose humble and sweet poverty will appear %clear in the clearness of your eternal love
Subject(s): Donkeys


THE DONKEY, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a donkey, that was all right
Subject(s): Donkeys; Burros


THE DONKEY LOADED WITH RELICS, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Some relics on a donkey being tied
Last Line: But only to his circumstance and station.
Subject(s): Donkeys; Fables; Burros; Allegories


THE OIL-MERCHANT'S ASS; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An ass, whose customary toil
Last Line: (poor donkeys!) with the oilman's ass.
Subject(s): Donkeys; Misers; Burros


TO A YOUNG ASS; ITS MOTHER BEING TETHERED NEAR IT, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor little foal of an oppressed race
Last Line: The aching of pale fashion's vacant breast!
Subject(s): Donkeys; Burros


TRAVELING BURROS, by GARY SOTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That the long-lashed burro hauls three stones
Last Line: Exhausted in the leafy hills
Subject(s): Donkeys


TURF-CARRIER ON ARANMORE, by JOHN HEWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The small boy drove the shaggy as
Last Line: Your father's beast is very dar, %if you are poor, if you are small
Subject(s): Donkeys


USED UP, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember the new-dropped colts in the time when I was a boy
Last Line: Into the earth
Subject(s): Animals; Coyotes; Donkeys; Horses; Burros


WHAT THE DONKEY SAW, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No room in the inn, of course
Last Line: Would be going places together
Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A.
Subject(s): Christmas; Donkeys