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Subject: HORNETS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BESTIARY U.S.A.: HORNET, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A red-hot needle
Subject(s): God; Hornets; Religion; Theology


BESTIARY U.S.A.: HORNET, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A red-hot needle
Last Line: He wants you to walk into him as into a dark fire
Subject(s): God; Hornets; Religion


THE MELON, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a melon fresh from the garden
Subject(s): Melons; Death; Hornets; Family Life; Dead, The; Relatives


THE WHITE-TAILED HORNET, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white-tailed hornet lives in a balloon
Last Line: I watched him where he swooped, he pounced, he struck
Subject(s): Hornets


THE WOLF, THE HORNET, AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: A wolf, a hornet, and a nightingale
Last Line: Slaying the rapturous song-bird on the wing!
Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Hornets; Nightingales; Thought; Wolves; Thinking


WHITE-TAILED HORNET, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thw white-tailed hornet lives in a balloon
Last Line: And this day's work made even that seem doubtful
Subject(s): Hornets