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Subject: OPOSSUMS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NOON LULL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Possum in de 'tater-patch
Last Line: Drapt in de turnip-hole, chasin' f'um de cow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Opossums; Weasels; Agriculture; Farmers; Possums


A PIECE OF PRESUMPTION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Asked a possum of a canner
Last Line: "he replied, ""possum, I can."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Opossums; Possums


FEEDING THE POSSUM, by JEFF ROBERT WORLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see him again tonight
Last Line: I'll never have to work again
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Night; Opossums


HUNTING SONG, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tek a cool night, good an' cleah
Last Line: Won't he be fine when he 's roasted up brown!
Subject(s): Hunting; Opossums; Hunters; Possums


KILLING THE POSSUM, by JILL DIVINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was, after all, a nuisance
Last Line: Playing dead underneath %the silver square of the shovel
Subject(s): Death; Opossums


POSSUM, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ef dey's anyt'ing dat riles me
Last Line: To a unskun possum's meat!
Subject(s): Opossums; Possums


POSSUM, by SONIA GRACE GERNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: With blood down one side
Subject(s): Opossums


THE 'POSSUM HUNT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did I ever 'possum hunt?
Last Line: I will leave you that to guess!
Subject(s): Hunting; Opossums; Hunters; Possums


THE DELIGHTS OF POSSUM HUNTING, by F. O'B.    Poem Text                    
First Line: A lovely night, and the mon brightly shining
Last Line: "it was an old ants' nest, built round a dead stick!"
Subject(s): Boys; Fools; Hunting; Opossums; Idiots; Hunters; Possums


THE LULL, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The possum lay on the tracks fully dead.
Subject(s): Opossums; Death - Animals; Possums


THE OPOSSUM-HUNTERS, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear ye not the waters beating where the rapid rivers, meeting
Last Line: There are those who turn with pity when they turn to think of thee!
Subject(s): Hunting; Opossums; Hunters; Possums