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Subject: GREYHOUNDS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN OCEAN GREYHOUND, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Free from the harbor this huge beauty swings
Last Line: Links old to new and meets the nations' need.
Subject(s): Greyhounds


AT THE INTERSECTION, by ANDREA HENY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At seven, the all-night greyhound reaches the city
Last Line: Would it surprise you if she broke out laughing?
Subject(s): Commuters; Greyhounds; Traffic; Travel


BETH GELERT; OR, THE GRAVE OF THE GREYHOUND, by WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spearmen heard the bugle sound
Last Line: To save llewellyn's heir.
Variant Title(s): Llewellyn And His Dog
Subject(s): Greyhounds; Hunting; Hunters


HOT DAY, by STEVE EFFINGHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Downtown l.A. 5th street off main back behind greyhound station
Last Line: Cop car moves slowly down street
Subject(s): Commuters; Greyhounds; Los Angeles; Travel


LEAVING THE FIELDS, by MARGARET J. HOEHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother's hands were maps of the sweltering valley
Last Line: Loss. She was strong and lean; candescent from within
Subject(s): Fields; Greyhounds; Mothers; Travel


NAPPING ON THE GREYHOUND, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's christmas eve in texas
Last Line: "from planet zizz. ""very tasteful antennae."
Subject(s): Buses; Greyhounds; Texas; Travel; Journeys; Trips


NATIVE AMERICAN BROADCASTING SYSTEM, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Five hundred years from now, archaeologists will discover
Last Line: The grasses grow %the rivers flow
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Cherokee Indians; Greyhounds; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Wars; Nuclear War; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel


NIGHT ON THE QUEEN MARY, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Counting heads to new york
Last Line: Your own voice picks up someone's else's
Subject(s): Greyhounds; Travel


PROPERTIES OF A GOOD GREYHOUND, by JULIANA BERNERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A greyhound should be headed like a snake
Last Line: For the best hound that ever bitch had %at nine he is full bad
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnes, Juliana; Bernes, Julia
Subject(s): Greyhounds


THE PERFECT GREYHOUND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If you would have a good tyke
Last Line: And footed like a cat
Subject(s): Animals;greyhounds


TO A BLACK GREYHOUND, by JULIAN GRENFELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shining black in the shining light
Subject(s): Greyhounds


VERSES TO MISS --, by J. WILDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From six o'clock I traversed to and fro
Last Line: Though all this stuff laid somewhere in my head.
Subject(s): Greyhounds; Writing & Writers