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Subject: GROUNDHOGS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GROUNDHOG, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In june, amid the golden fields
Last Line: Of montaingne in his tower, %of saint theresa in her wild lament
Subject(s): Death; Decay; Groundhogs; Men; Transience


GROUNDHOG, by JOHN PALEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She ate lettuce down to an inch from the ground
Last Line: A sleek brown fatness rippling low to the ground
Subject(s): Groundhogs


GROUNDHOG, by LUCI SHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: The groundhog is, at best, a simple soul
Last Line: Part of the plan, and that he who designed %all simple wonderers, may have had me in mind
Subject(s): Groundhogs


INCOMMUNICADO, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The groundhog on the mountain did not run
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Groundhogs; Language; Woodchucks; Words; Vocabulary


OLD WINTERS ON THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have jest about decided
Last Line: "groun'-hog's out and seed his shadder!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Farm Life; February; Groundhogs; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers; Woodchucks


ON KNOWING WHEN TO STOP, by L. J. BRIDGMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The woodchuck told it all about
Last Line: And satisfied his fancies.
Subject(s): Groundhogs; Woodchucks


THE GROUNDHOG, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In june, amid the golden fields
Subject(s): Death; Decay; Groundhogs; Men; Transience; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Woodchucks; Impermanence


WOODCHUCKS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gassing the woodchucks didn't turn out right
Last Line: If only they'd all consented to die unseen %gassed underground the nazi way
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Extermination And Exterminators; Groundhogs