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Subject: LEOPARDS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CASUALTIES: 9. WHAT THE SQUIRREL SAID, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They killed the lion in his den
Last Line: Of it about us, about our necks
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Bulls; Death - Animals; Hunting; Leopards


CIVILIZATION - SPURNS - THE LEOPARD!, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Nor suppressed - with balm
Variant Title(s): Poem: 492; Poem: 27
Subject(s): Leopards


LEOPARD LIVES IN A MUU TREE, by JONATHAN KARIARA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Resuscitating himself
Subject(s): Farm Life; Leopards


LEOPARDS, by PAULINE CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: While monkeys nod
Last Line: The jackal howls
Subject(s): Animals; Leopards


RIDDLE, by BRIAN SWANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The spots are leaving
Last Line: They are going into hiding
Subject(s): Giraffes; Leopards; Riddles


SNOW LEOPARDS AT THE DENVER ZOO, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are only a hundred or so
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Zoos; Snow Leopards


SNOW-LEOPARD, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His pads furring the scarp's rime
Last Line: At all that he is: the heart of heartlessness
Subject(s): Leopards


SPOTTED LEOPARD, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You fix your tired gaze over our heads
Last Line: Almost remember who you are
Subject(s): Animals; Leopards


THE LEOPARD-NURSER, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since children hear what they will hear, I heard
Last Line: By which a child nurses a dangerous beast to strength
Subject(s): Leopards; Women


THE SNOW-LEOPARD, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His pads furring the scarp's rime
Subject(s): Leopards


WOMAN AND LEOPARD, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although she was beautiful
Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Leopards; Zoos


YELLOW EYES, by KINGSLEY FAIRBRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blended by fading moonlight with the grass
Subject(s): Leopards


ZOO IN THE RAIN: THE SNOW LEOPARD, by DEBORA GREGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Something bellowed. %no one manned the zoo's ticket window
Last Line: Like a page of national geographic
Subject(s): Leopards; Rain; Zoos