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Subject: DUCKS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF DUCKS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The railway rattled and roared and swung
Last Line: "mister,"" I says, ""there's your blanky ducks!""'"
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Ducks; Mallards; Drakes


A MEMORY, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Four ducks on a pond
Last Line: To remember with tears!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Ducks; Spring; Mallards; Drakes


ARMORED HEARTS, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd been awakened before by hammers cracking across the pond
Last Line: The bait from his hooks.
Subject(s): Ducks; Neighbors; Sabotage; Mallards; Drakes


BLUE DUCK: A CHIPPEWA MEDICINE DANCE, by LEW SARETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi!
Last Line: My heart like his is good! %ugh! My tongue is straight! %ho!%ho!
Subject(s): Ducks


DAME DUCK'S FIRST LECTURE ON EDUCATION, by ANN HAWKSHAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old mother duck has hatched a brood
Last Line: Got hardly any food.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aunt Effie; Hawkshawe, Ann; Jackson, Ann
Variant Title(s): Mother Duck
Subject(s): Ducks; Mallards; Drakes


DEAD DUCKS, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: My friend's husband weighs down
Last Line: What are a few dead ducks %compared to our children's joy?
Subject(s): Ducks; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Mothers


DUCK, by EDITH KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I were in a fairy tale
Subject(s): Ducks


DUCK, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold the duck
Last Line: When it dines or sups, %it bottoms up
Subject(s): Animals; Ducks


DUCK, by KAY RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It isn't ever / all green thought
Subject(s): Ducks; Thought; Mallards; Drakes; Thinking


DUCK-CHASING, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I spied a very small brown duck
Subject(s): Ducks; Mallards; Drakes


DUCK-CHASING, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I spied a very small brown duck
Last Line: When it is over it is all over
Subject(s): Ducks


DUCKS, by NORMAN AULT    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I went down the village green
Subject(s): Ducks


DUCKS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In her first home each book had a light around it
Last Line: The ducks were building a nest.
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ducks; Family Life; Iran; War; Mallards; Drakes; Relatives; Persia


DUCKS, by F. D. REEVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the thames, where at breakfast he
Last Line: Took his mark, and cast there
Subject(s): Ducks; Morning


DUCKS, by MARTHA ZWEIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maybe a murder
Last Line: Wacks in preamble, %backtalk & sass
Subject(s): Animals; Ducks; Survival


DUCKS AT DAWN, by JAMES STERLING TIPPETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Quack! Quack!' %said seven ducks at dawn
Last Line: And slept to tunes %of 'quack! Quack! Quack!'
Subject(s): Ducks


DUCKS IN SEPTEMBER, by FREYA MANFRED    Poem Source                    
First Line: From my frosted window
Last Line: We have so far to go.'
Subject(s): Ducks; September


ELEGY, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fled is the swiftness of all the white-footed ones
Last Line: And the geese honk north again and the heron's going.
Subject(s): Ducks; Geese; Migration; Mallards; Drakes


EROS, by AMY S. JENNINGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I see in your eyes what you have seen
Last Line: And the ripples kissing her throat.
Subject(s): Cupid; Ducks; Eros; Mallards; Drakes


ESSAY: DUCKS, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Break what is the / nectarine - word
Last Line: Of the thought: dusks reflect you
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Ducks; Lakes; Mallards; Drakes; Pools; Ponds


HONEYMOON FLIGHT, by J. E. NELSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They're flying north to the arctic seas
Last Line: To the bridal shores on hudson's bay.
Subject(s): Ducks; Geese; Migration; Mallards; Drakes


LITTLE DUCK, by JOSO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've just come from a place'
Last Line: On the little duck's face
Subject(s): Ducks


MALLARD, by GEORGE B. STAFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why does a mallard winging lonely
Last Line: Down the lake?
Subject(s): Ducks; Mallards; Drakes


MR. & MRS. DUCK DINNER, by RUSSELL EDSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An old woman with a duck under her arm is let into a house and asked
Last Line: A little longer these days
Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Dinners And Dining; Ducks


ON A LONELY DUCK, by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It dives in shallows for beakfuls of moss
Last Line: Then found its reflection and lingered
Alternate Author Name(s): Jian-wen; Xiao Gang; Ch'ien Wen-ti
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Ducks


PORTRAIT OF THE GREAT WHITE HUNTER FOXHUNTING IN THE ABSENCE OF BIG..., by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Open the stable gate!
Last Line: Out of a hole in my head
Subject(s): Animals; Ducks; Hunting; Portraits; Rifles; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters


PORTRAIT OF THE GREAT WHITE HUNTER FOXHUNTING IN THE ABSENCE OF BIG..., by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Open the stable gate!
Last Line: These words are coming %out of a hole in my head
Subject(s): Animals; Ducks; Hunting; Portraits; Rifles


QUACK, QUACK!, by THEODORE GEISEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have two ducks. One blue. One black
Last Line: But black is a quicker quacker-backer
Subject(s): Ducks; Noises; Sound


REGENT'S PARK, by ROSE FYLEMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What makes the ducks in the pond, I wonder, go %suddenly under?
Last Line: What is it makes the duck, I wonder, go %suddenly under?
Subject(s): Ducks


SUCH A DUCK, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "once venus, deeming love too fat"
Last Line: "but then -- you're such a duck, my darling!"
Subject(s): Birds;cupid;ducks;juno (goddess);minerva;mythology - Classical;peacocks;venus (goddess); Eros;mallards;drakes


TERCETS, by JEFF CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clatter in the landscape
Last Line: Tomorrow, in night, in three warm cores, %I'll prepare
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Ducks; Expressionism - Poets; Soul


THE DUCK, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold the duck
Subject(s): Animals; Ducks; Mallards; Drakes


THE DUCK AND THE KANGAROO, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said the duck to the kangaroo
Last Line: As the duck and the kangaroo?
Subject(s): Ducks; Friendship; Kangaroos; Nonsense; Mallards; Drakes


THE FOWLER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have an old remembrance - 'tis as old
Last Line: Yea, loathed the purpose and the power to kill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Ducks; Hunting; Wings; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters


THE MALLARDS PASS UNHARMED, by LAURA FRANCES ALEXANDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Grieve not because the mallards pass unharmed
Last Line: To view the wing and hoof beats as a god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Frances
Subject(s): Ducks; Mallards; Drakes


THE NOTORIOUS GLUTTON, by ANN TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A duck who had got such a habit of stuffing
Last Line: There to learn the disgrace in which gluttony ends.
Subject(s): Ducks; Gluttony; Mallards; Drakes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 109, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mandarin ducks roost for the night
Last Line: They don't usurp the phoenix's lake
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ducks; Phoenix (mythical Bird); Mallards; Drakes


THE WILD DUCK, by LEROY OLIVER MCLEOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: A strange thing, that a lark and robin sky
Last Line: And calmly waited, knowing you would kill.
Subject(s): Ducks; Mallards; Drakes


THE WILD DUCK'S NEST, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The imperial consort of the fairy-king
Last Line: For human-kind, weak slaves of cumbrous pride!
Subject(s): Ducks; Mallards; Drakes


TO A WILD DUCK, by BERNICE GIBBS ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dusk - and you float, serene
Last Line: Only a hunter's prize!
Subject(s): Ducks; Hunting; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters


TREETOPS, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father moves through the south hunting duck
Last Line: Probable volume of dreams, think so.
Subject(s): Death; Ducks; Fathers & Sons; Hunting; Dead, The; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters


WILD DUCK, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twilight. Red in the west
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Ducks


WILD DUCKS, by ROSE HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I heard the wild ducks passing in the night
Last Line: I heard the wild ducks passing in the night.
Subject(s): Ducks; Night; Spring; Trees; Mallards; Drakes; Bedtime


WILD DUCKS FLOATING BY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under spruce trees with roots dangling from a cutbank
Last Line: To him by his river swiftly out of sight
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Ducks; Water


WINTER MORNING, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars faded out of the paling sky
Last Line: Borne on the morning wind, the wild duck came.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Ducks; Morning; Winter; Mallards; Drakes


WOOD DUCKS AT YADDO, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A small, gaudy mandarin
Last Line: And see such splendid mockery
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Ducks; Feathers