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Subject: PORCUPINES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` MY HAPPINESS, by MARY RUEFLE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I laid my happiness in a field
Subject(s): Happiness; Porcupines; Joy; Delight


PORCUPINE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Any hound a porcupine nudges
Last Line: At a porcupine that sat on a splinter
Subject(s): Porcupines


PORCUPINE, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The porcupine is puzzled
Last Line: That what he finds enjoyable %to others is a pain
Subject(s): Porcupines


THE PORCUPINE, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The porcupine is puzzled
Subject(s): Porcupines


TOWARDS DUSK THE PORCUPINE, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Startled to see me
Subject(s): Porcupines


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 5: SATIRE: 3, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The satire should be like the porcupine
Last Line: For welthy thames to change his lowly rhene.
Subject(s): Nature; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Porcupines; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect


ZOO IN THE RAIN: THE PORCUPINE, by DEBORA GREGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A flip of a peacock's fan
Last Line: Bristled with roughly motherly love
Subject(s): Porcupines; Rain; Zoos