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Subject: LOONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` NIGHT LAUGHTER, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the grey solitudes
Last Line: O moaning loon?
Subject(s): Loons


THE LOON, by ELEANOR STIMSON BROOKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A silent, winding stream, that wanders slow
Last Line: Since the dim days that did creation mark.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, Van Wyck, Mrs.
Subject(s): Loons; Wellesley College


THE LOON, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not quite four a.M., when the rapture of being alive
Subject(s): Insomnia; Books; Loons; Sleeplessness; Reading


THE LOON, by LEW SARETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lonely lake, a lonely shore
Last Line: And beating at his bars.
Subject(s): Loons


THE LOON, by ALFRED BILLINGS STREET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tameless in his stately pride
Last Line: Till in chains no more to him the lake yields watery boon.
Subject(s): Loons


THE LOON, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A loon woke me this morning. It was like waking up
Subject(s): Loons; Anxiety


THE LOON ON FORRESTER'S POND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer wilderness, a blue light
Last Line: The real and only sanity to me
Subject(s): Birds; Loons; Mountain Life - Vermont; Summer


THE LOONS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once ye were happy, once by many a shore
Last Line: With awful laughter pierce the lonely night.
Subject(s): Loons