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Subject: MOSQUITOES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DELIGHTS OF CAMP LIFE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come to the home of the friendly mosquito
Last Line: Come to where the centipedes crawl underneath
Subject(s): Centipedes;insects;mosquitoes; Bugs


FEEDING TIME AT THE ROEDING ZOO, by GARY SOTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long-legged mosquitoes feed on algae and transient blood
Last Line: Flop and die with one eye in the hundred-degree sun
Subject(s): Mosquitoes; Zoos


FROSTY MORNING, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of the tub
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Mosquitoes; Nature


GETTING A MOSQUITO, by DAVID SCHUBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I most savagely %attack him in my conversation
Last Line: She bangs out its death with the new york times
Subject(s): Mosquitoes; New York Times (newspaper)


HAIKU, by KOBAYASHI ISSA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mosquito at my ear
Last Line: Does it think %I'm deaf
Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa
Subject(s): Mosquitoes


I FLY UP I FLY UP, by BRIAN SWANN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I ring my small bell
Subject(s): Mosquitoes; Native Americans; Riddles


MOSQUITO, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When did you start your tricks
Last Line: Queer, what a dim dark smudge you have disappeared into!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Mosquitoes


MOSQUITO, by BOB MCKENTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mosquito, with syringe built in
Last Line: For fear he'll leave a crimson spot
Subject(s): Mosquitoes


MOSQUITO, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the fine wire of her whine she walked
Last Line: By side we, murderer and murdered, sleep
Subject(s): Mosquitoes


MOSQUITO KNOWS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mosquito knows full well, small as he is
Last Line: He doesn't put my blood in the bank
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Mosquitoes


MOSQUITO NETTING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mosquitoes thick at daisy spring?
Last Line: Slay! Slay! Before he draws a breath.
Subject(s): Mosquitoes


MOSQUITOES, by AL-SUMAISIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mosquitoes are sucking / my blood like sweet wine
Last Line: Each vein is a string.
Subject(s): Mosquitoes


PADDY MINOGUE'S MOSQUITO-NET, by J. SAYERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas red hot weather on croydon field
Last Line: Poor paddy minogue's mosquito-net.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Deception; Mosquitoes


POTATO BUG, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rumors of it kept my doors sealed
Last Line: Nina de la tierra: child of the earth, %as we all can't help but be
Subject(s): Animals; Insects; Mosquitoes; Wings


REPRIEVE, by SELENA KILMOYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My hand grasped tightly the distracting mosquito
Last Line: Rather than simply being told - %to go buzz off!!!
Subject(s): Mosquitoes


SWARMING MOSQUITOES, by MEI YAO-CH'EN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun has set, the mmon is in darkness
Last Line: The east will soon be bright
Subject(s): Mosquitoes


THE MOSQUITO, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the fine wire of her whine she walked
Last Line: By side we, murderer and murdered, sleep
Subject(s): Mosquitoes


THE MOSQUITO KNOWS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mosquito knows full well, small as he is
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Mosquitoes


THE MOSQUITO TURNED MESSENGER, by MELEAGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mosquito, fly away, and be
Last Line: Mosquito mine, to wrap you in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros
Subject(s): Mosquitoes


TO A MOSQUITO, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair insect! That, with threadlike legs spread out
Last Line: No angry hand shall rise to brush thy wings.
Variant Title(s): The Mosquito
Subject(s): Mosquitoes


TO A MOSQUITO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little, airy, hateful thing
Subject(s): Mosquitoes