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Subject: SANDPIPERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ODE TO A PAIR OF SANDPIPERS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: No studious haunt this mossy nook!
Last Line: For brighter pleasure!
Subject(s): Autumn; Hearts; Nature; Sandpipers; Seasons; Fall


SANDPIPER, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The roaring alongside he takes for granted
Subject(s): Birds; Sandpipers


SANDPIPER, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The roaring alongside he takes for granted
Last Line: The millions of grains are black, white, tan, and gray, %mixed with quartz grains, rose and amethyst
Subject(s): Birds; Sandpipers


SANDPIPER, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the sea-edge, like a gnome
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Sandpipers


SANDPIPER, by IVAN SWIFT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Prime indignity of solitude
Subject(s): Birds; Sandpipers


SANDPIPERS, by HELEN MERRILL EGERTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Morning on the misty highlands
Last Line: Weet, a-weet, a-weet, weet weet!
Alternate Author Name(s): Merrill, Helen M.
Subject(s): Sandpipers


SANDPIPERS IN THE MIST, by IONE MORRISON RIDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Waves weave in mystery around our feet
Last Line: While fringed waves flood up and down the beach.
Subject(s): Sandpipers


THE SANDPIPER, by MARY HEFFERAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Straight as the sedges hiding her
Last Line: "peep-po, peep-po."
Subject(s): Sandpipers; Wellesley College


THE SANDPIPER, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the narrow beach we flit,
Last Line: Thou, little sandpiper, and I?
Subject(s): Birds; Sandpipers