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Subject: KINGFISHERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` KINGFISHER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eastern god with natural blessing gleams
Last Line: The kingfisher returns.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): England; Kingfishers; Landscape; English


KINGFISHER, by BEATRICE RUTH GIBBS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here quietly the lazy ripples run
Last Line: For grief that beauty passed so swiftly by.
Subject(s): Kingfishers; Nature


KINGFISHER, by NORMAN MACCAIG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That kingfisher jewelling upstream
Last Line: Samurai, returning home %to his stinking slup
Subject(s): Kingfishers; Rivers


KINGFISHERS, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What does not change/is the will to change
Last Line: I hunt among stones
Subject(s): Kingfishers


THE CYNIC OF THE WOODS, by ARTHUR PATCHETT MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I come from busy haunts of men
Last Line: At all man's vain pretence.
Subject(s): Kingfishers


THE KINGFISHER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the rainbow gave thee birth
Last Line: Sigh with her bosom over me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Birds; Kingfishers


THE KINGFISHER, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The kingfisher rises out of the black wave
Subject(s): Kingfishers


THE KINGFISHERS, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: What does not change/is the will to change
Subject(s): Kingfishers


THE VAIN KING, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In robes of tyrian blue the king was drest
Last Line: And scolds the angler with a mocking scream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fish & Fishing; Kingfishers


THERE ARE STILL KINGFISHERS, by ARCHIBALD YOUNG CAMPBELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Faith, peace and joy today brings: all has failed
Last Line: Not that he cares for them, but lives for ever.
Subject(s): Kingfishers