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Subject: PELICANS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEAK OF THE PELICAN, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She looks for wiggly fishes
Last Line: How does she get that faceful %of luggage off the ground?
Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans


FRIGATE PELICAN, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rapidly cruising or lying on the air there is a bird
Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Birds; Pelicans


LIMERICK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A wonderful bird is the pelican
Last Line: I'm damned if I know how the helican
Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans


ODE TO THE PELICAN, by MINNIE ELIZABETH OTTO    Poem Text                    
First Line: The florida pelican / is a doleful old bird
Last Line: On the mangrove limbs.
Subject(s): Birds; Fish & Fishing; Pelicans


PELICAN, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Readings grunts after so much quiet: look
Subject(s): Pelicans


PELICAN, by MICHAEL DAVID MADONICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seeing what he is, sag-bellied, sag-bellied, sag-jawed
Last Line: Its wings becoming fluent, cantilvering from the edge of this world
Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans


PELICAN, by DIXON LANIER MERRITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A rare old bird is the pelican
Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans


PELICANS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four pelicans went over the house
Last Line: Pelicans.
Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Pelicans


PELICANS, by AMY REQUA RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: They sail the evening sky, a solemn row
Last Line: As if it were their duty not their will.
Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans


PERSEPHONE IN THE UNDERWORLD: 3. THE PELICAN, by DEBORA GREGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because it amused the queen in me
Last Line: It was an ugly fish, all head, %also called a teacher in those parts
Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans


THE FRIGATE PELICAN, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rapidly cruising or lying on the air there is a bird
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Birds; Pelicans; Airplanes; Air Pilots


THE PELICANS AT WHITE HORSE KEY, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you follow the spiral
Last Line: Set out to float on the sea of repentance
Subject(s): Pelicans; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Repentance


THE PELICANS MY FATHER SEES, by SISTER MARIS STELLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Early one morning the bay will be full of pelicans
Last Line: After the long dark winter. After the night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Alice Gustava
Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans


THE REASON FOR THE PELICAN, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To quite a splendid size
Subject(s): Pelicans


THREE WASH DRAWINGS: 1. PELICANS, by WINIFRED WALDRON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Three white-breasted pelicans
Last Line: Under the thin white moon.
Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans; Sea Gulls


WAR OF THE PELICANS, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mocha pelicans peeled off above the lagoon
Subject(s): Birds; Pelicans