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Subject: HOGS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A RECIPE: ROASTED SUCKING-PIG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cooks who'd roast a sucking-pig
Last Line: "and if he a guest should wish, / let him send for me!"
Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks;pigs; Boars;hogs


ADONIS, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am in love with a pig
Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs


ANOTHER FEELING, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once you saw a drove of young pigs
Subject(s): Pigs; Diability; Regret; Boars; Hogs


BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What I need is a seraph and a pig
Subject(s): Pigs; Food & Eating; Boars; Hogs


EATING THE PIG, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twelve people, most of us strangers, stand in a room
Subject(s): Pigs; Food & Eating; Boars; Hogs


ECLOGUE: THE TIMES, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, tom, how be'st? Zoo thou'st a-got thy neame
Last Line: You'll goo vor wool, an' then come hwome a-sheär'd.
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Economics; Fables; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Pigs; Politics & Government; Social Protest; Wages; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Boars; Hogs; Salaries


FABLE: THE LAMB AND THE PIG, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Consult the moralist, you'll find
Last Line: That once a lrog, and always so.
Subject(s): Deception; Fables; Lambs; Pigs; Allegories; Boars; Hogs


FABLES: 1ST SER. 48. THE GARDENER AND THE HOG, by JOHN GAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A gard'ner, of peculiar taste
Last Line: Shall mourn the folly soon or late.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Pigs; Boars; Hogs


FOR JAN, WITH LOVE, by DAVID LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: John he comes to my house
Last Line: Because john's red sow that fucker she died
Subject(s): Birth; Death; Farm Life; Pigs; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs


GUINEY-PIGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Guiney-pigs is awful cute
Last Line: When they's company!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Animals; Food & Eating; Pigs; Boars; Hogs


HOOFIN' IT, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am but a river hog
Last Line: By an' by!
Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs


JACK SPRAT'S PIG (1), by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little jack sprat / once had a pig
Last Line: Said little jack sprat.
Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs


LOADING A BOAR, by DAVID LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We were loading a boar, a goddamn mean big sonofabitch
Last Line: Writing and found out john he was right.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Pigs; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs


ODE TO A PIG WHILE HIS NOSE WAS BEING ROASTED, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! Hark! That pig - that pig! The hideous note
Last Line: To think that for your master's good you die?
Variant Title(s): Ode To A Pig, Who Nose Was Being Bored
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mankind; Nature; Pain; Pigs; Sacrifices; Selflessness; Dead, The; Paradise; Human Race; Suffering; Misery; Boars; Hogs


PHILOSOPHER ORDERS CRISPY PORK, by HEATHER MCHUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love him so, this creature I do pray
Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs


PHOTO OF THE AUTHOR WITH A FAVORITE PIG, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind its snout like a huge button
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Pigs; Photography & Photographers; Boars; Hogs


PIG, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the manger of course were cows and the child himself
Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs


RAZOR BACK HAWGS, by MARIE RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Maybe you have heared tell
Last Line: We think a heap uv our hawg meat.
Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs


RID OF HOGS, by RALPH BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your hogs have taken part in the great conversation
Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs


RIDDLE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I went over tipple tyne
Last Line: That ever went on tipple tyne
Subject(s): Pigs;riddles; Boars;hogs


SEPARATION, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Well my cadillac now that the hog herding has begun
Last Line: Just where our lovers die
Subject(s): Absence; Farm Life; Iowa; Pigs; Separation; Isolation; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs


SONGS OF THE TRANSFORMED: PIG SONG, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is what you changed me to
Last Line: This is a hymn
Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs


SOOEY GENEROUS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saint anthony, patron of sausage makers
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs


SOW, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God knows how our neighbor managed to breed
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs


ST. ANTHONY AND HIS PIG; A CANTATA, by FREDERICK FORREST    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let clownish cymon, in fond rustic strains
Last Line: But best of all I love my pig.
Subject(s): Animals; Pigs; Boars; Hogs


THE BLUE HOG, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I didn't have to buy the acid
Last Line: Who's said to still be in the district.
Variant Title(s): A Blue Hog
Subject(s): Death - Children; Devil; Pigs; Revenge; Death - Babies; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Boars; Hogs


THE BOAR AND THE SINGING BIRD, by JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A millionaire of much pretence
Last Line: "deems his own merit the attraction."
Subject(s): Pigs; Vanity; Wealth; Boars; Hogs; Riches; Fortunes


THE BOAR-HUNT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These having halted bade blow horns, and rode
Last Line: Foamed out the latest wrath of all his life.
Subject(s): Calydon, Greece; Hunting; Pigs; Hunters; Boars; Hogs


THE CHRISTENIN', by PRIAM [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: "on the plains of tooraneedin, where the rabbits keep on breedin'"
Last Line: He's the one and only christian pig in all the countryside
Alternate Author Name(s): Priam
Subject(s): Baptism;christianity;ireland;pigs; Christenings;irish;boars;hogs


THE LADY AND THE SWINE, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a lady loved a swine
Last Line: Hoogh, quoth he.
Variant Title(s): Hunc, He Said;lady And Swine;the Lady In Love;the Silver Sty
Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs


THE OBSCURE, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's the poor first light of morning
Last Line: That her breasts filled the window like a mouth.
Subject(s): Death; Desire; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Pigs; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Boars; Hogs


THE PIG; A COLLOQUIAL POEM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jacob! I do not like to see thy nose
Last Line: Of beans it came, and thoughts of bacon rise.
Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs


THE PIPER'S SON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In olden days there dwelt a piper's
Last Line: And round and soundly justice-of-ye-peaced.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Pigs; Pipers; Boars; Hogs


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 72, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pigs devour dead human flesh
Last Line: Lotuses will bloom in boiling soup
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Humanity; Pigs; Boars; Hogs


THE POOR MAN'S PIG, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Already fallen plum-bloom stars the green
Last Line: And sulky as a child when her play's done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Landscape; Pigs; English; Boars; Hogs


THE SNAKE DOCTORS, by FRANK STANFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was in the outhouse
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Crime & Criminals; Pigs; Anglers; Boars; Hogs


THE SQUIRE'S BOAR HUNT, by ROSE TERRY COOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, gallop my masters! Come gallop my men!
Last Line: We'll end with high revel this hunt of the boar.
Subject(s): Hunting; Pigs; Hunters; Boars; Hogs


THE THREE LITTLE PIGS, by ALFRED SCOTT-GATTY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A jolly old sow once lived in a sty
Last Line: "for you only can say, ""wee! Wee!"
Subject(s): Pigs; Boars; Hogs


THE WILD BOAT, TIME, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall a man never rest
Last Line: I will drink this water in the valley.
Subject(s): Life; Pigs; Time; Vision; Boars; Hogs


THOUGHTS OF A TINY PIG, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I had a different life to live
Last Line: To get away from the smell.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Pigs; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs


TRANSPLANTING, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother carried the chest x-ray
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Sneezing; Food & Eating; X-rays; Pigs; Boars; Hogs


TRUFFLE PIGS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: None of these men, who all run truffle pigs
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Pigs; Truffles; Boars; Hogs


WE HAD SEEN A PIG, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One man held the huge pig down
Last Line: When we looked.
Subject(s): Business; Butchers; Murder; Pigs; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Boars; Hogs