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Subject: HYENAS
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First Line: I should go back because the spotted animal
Last Line: And being a nun didn't save me
Subject(s): Hyenas


HYAENAS, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the burial-parties leave
Last Line: Nor do they defile the dead man's name- %that is reserved for his kind
Subject(s): Hyenas


HYENA, by KAREN KIPP    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't need much. I eat what the others cannot stomach
Last Line: That remain. My mourning sounds like laughter
Subject(s): Hyenas


HYENA, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The laughing hyena's behavior is strange
Last Line: But never tells anyone why
Subject(s): Hyenas


HYENA, by MARIN SORESCU    Poem Source                    
First Line: A lot of dead remained unburied
Last Line: For thousand and thousands of years
Subject(s): Hyenas


HYENA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father came in the darkness
Last Line: Son of the darkness walker
Subject(s): Hyenas


HYENAS, by WILLIAM WHALLON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stripes, the meretricious gauds of noon
Last Line: Clamber up hills beyond, for they have made %the wide savannah free from bone and brawn
Subject(s): Hyenas